{"id":140384,"date":"2023-04-25T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=140384"},"modified":"2023-04-22T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T18:19:54","slug":"the-insanity-of-the-liberal-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=140384","title":{"rendered":"The insanity of the liberal mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have seen a couple of articles recently which illustrate those thought processes… and it ain’t pretty.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with Nithya Raman, who blames the car manufacturers for making catalytic convertors so easy to steal that folks just nat’r’lly cain’t resist it. When LA tried to enact an ordinance on criminal possession of stolen convertors, she voted against, to wit:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this case, I think one of the things that infuriates me, is that we have a company \u2014 whatever, Toyota \u2014 who makes the Prius, that essentially has a device on their cars which is super easy to remove. It\u2019s basically the value of a MacBook, right?\u201d the Democratic lawmaker said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dunno about Toyotas, but I suspect if you ever suggested this woman slide under any parked car and try to remove one of the hottest parts of the exhaust after only a few months of driving, she’d find out that welded on or clamped on, there isn’t much difference.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is put in a place that is incredibly easy to access in your car and the thefts related to this issue have essentially \u2014 all of the costs of that \u2014 are given to us to bear instead of them [Toyota] having to manufacture a car that actually is not so easy to be stolen,\u201d the Harvard-educated Raman added.\u00a0 National Review<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So suddenly it’s the entire car getting stolen?\u00a0 We’ve made some comments about what a Hah-vahd education is worth nowadays – think a good high-school shop class would have done her more good.\u00a0 Let HER find out how much room there is under most passenger vehicles nowadays.\u00a0 In any case, it’s obviously not the criminal’s fault, it’s the inanimate objects’ fault. Where have we seen this thought process recently again (ahem GUNS cough cough.)<\/p>\n

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Now we get to a national level. The attorneys general of SEVENTEEN STATES – yep, 17 – have called for a recall on certain Kia and Hyundai vehicles that are “easy to steal”.\u00a0 Want ’em off the road. This follows a months-old “TikTok challenge” in which some idiot shows how easy it is to steal a car without an engine immobilizer.<\/p>\n

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In a joint letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the attorneys called for the cars to be pulled from US roads due to their vulnerable ignition switches and absence of engine immobilizers, which make them attractive to thieves.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to this vulnerability in their starting systems, the vehicles can be hotwired and stolen in a matter of minutes, presenting a serious safety issue nationwide,\u201d the letter reads.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, I happen to have a couple of these cars (feel free to try and steal one if you feel ’10 feet tall and bullet-proof’ as the man says.)\u00a0 They are not luxury rides – far from it. Basic transportation aimed squarely at the lower end of the market – meaning the only folks affected by pulling them off the road are lower income folks. Where is the thought of maybe enhancing sentencing for stealing cars? No, it’s the CARS’ fault.<\/p>\n

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The letter, signed by attorneys general from Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia, noted that at least eight people have already died as a result of car thefts involving Kia and Hyundai.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

MSN<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0I do note the list of states – seems there is something in common about their governments. Wait – it’ll come to me…<\/p>\n

Believe I read where most of those killed were drivers or passengers in those stolen cars,\u00a0 which makes it more of a self-solving problem. And both manufacturers already have campaigns to fix the issue, free.In any case: blame the inanimate object, not a criminal who uses it. Seems like it should be simple, unless you think like a five-year old who broke the cookie jar and blames it all on the jar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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