Reader Poll
Do you support the use of checkpoints in the Las Vegas area?
Response | Votes | ||
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Yes. | 49% | 445 | |
No. | 50% | 452 | |
Total Votes | 897 |
Note: This is not a scientific poll. The results reflect only the opinions of those who chose to participate.
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Wow. 43% of people who took this poll drive drunk? I can't think of many reasons why someone would otherwise object to a minimally intrusive, minimally inconvenient method of perhaps saving other people's lives.
I challenge Metro to do a check point on the strip, and another downtown.
Politics?
Peaches...they would never do a check point on the strip..if they really want to get drunk drivers off the street i would say that's where the majority be..but that would run away the visitors don't wanna do that it would cost the city and state a lot of money..metro is joke..Politics
Police checkpoints are an insult. Those of you who support them should move someplace where such tactics are accepted and encouraged by the vast majority of the blind followers who think "safety" and "security" are good reasons for giving up freedom to travel.
I'm all for "freedom to travel", but I'm tired of reading about others who've had their "freedom to travel" or actually, their "freedom to live", removed by someone who thought part of their "freedom" included the "freedom" to drive drunk.
I'm not against booze or bars, not even against gettin' piss-a#@ drunk... just don't get behind the wheel of a vehicle!
With all of us "blind-followers" here in Nevada (I'm a 3rd generation Nevadan), looks like the only place left for the hard-core, right-wing, god-fearin' Sharon Angle types to live and enjoy their "freedoms" is Idaho and/or Utah. Ooooops... it still sells well in the deep-south too.
I'm with smartone618. Your freedom to do whatever you want ends at the point where it stops others' rights to enjoyment of life, health, and property. Stop being a self-centered a*s and take responsibility for your actions! You are not on Earth alone.
drive responsable thats all people
It's unconstitutional and a slippery slope when you start impinging on freedom in favor of "general safety." It also is a sad state of affairs when a "3rd generation Nevadan" has turned away from his home state to the point of thinking that such checkpoints are A-OK.
Poor diet and lack of exercise kills 1000 people a day due to heart disease, diabetes, etc.
Tobacco kills 1200 a day.
Auto crashes (the majority of which are not alcohol related) kill 71 a day.
Why not have a government mandated speed limiter in every car that limits a vehicle's speed to the maximum posted speed in your registered jurisdiction? Why not have a government mandated breathalyzer-activated ignition in every car? It's easy to make happen. Hmmm.
Men cause more fatal accidents than women. Asians cause more fatal accidents than Germans. Blondes cause more fatal accidents than brunettes.
Why not checkpoints to pull overweight people out of their cars? Or smokers? Or blonde, Asian men? Hmmm.
Cell phones are just as (if not more of) an impairment to safe driving as alcohol. Hmmmm.
Yeah, keep setting up your checkpoints, Charlie.
"I'm with smartone618. Your freedom to do whatever you want ends at the point where it stops others' rights to enjoyment of life, health, and property. Stop being a self-centered a*s and take responsibility for your actions! You are not on Earth alone."
So, YOUR "rights to enjoyment of life, health, and property" can impinge on MINE, but not the other way around?
Wow.
EVERYONE should object to such checkpoints -- unfortunately, this poll merely confirms the breath (53% YES) of social ignorance.
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