April 15, 2019
If you could write one new law, what would it be?
My first thought when I read this question was that we have too many laws already. Do we really need even one more?
But then I think of some of the new laws I’ve seen in my lifetime. Like the one that made it illegal to rape your wife. (Wrap your mind around that- it used to be legal.) or the one that made it illegal to aim a camera up a woman’s skirt without her permission. How about the one that required electric automobiles’ engines to make a loud sound so blind people could hear them coming? (That was proposed, I don’t know if it passed or not.)
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So, it’s obvious that we need new laws to keep up with changing times and technology. But that also means that some old ones no longer apply. Like the one from Arizona that rules that donkeys aren’t allowed to sleep in bathtubs. Or Michigan’s law that makes it illegal to buy or sell vehicles on Sunday. (I remember not being able to buy groceries on Sunday.) How about South Carolina’s law that makes it illegal for a minor to play pinball?
Here’s my proposal for a new law. For every new law that is passed, at least one old one must be taken off the books. The first fifty or so would be a piece of cake, but after that I’m not so sure. Can you imagine the hours lawmakers and their clerks would have to put in to find laws to strike from the books? The thought fills me with glee. At least it would be a better use of their time than hours spent debating a state song or fish.
What law would you write? Tell me in the comments. Now I’m off to check out what the other authors have to say.
April 15, 2019
If you could write one new law, what would it be?
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Donkeys aren’t allowed to sleep in bathtubs? Was somebody drunk when they made that law, lol! Yes, there are too many old laws now which definitely need updating for these modern times.
It had something to do with a barn being washed out in a flood or something. But to make a law?
You and I are in agreement that we already have too many laws and we need to get rid of them. The more specific the law becomes the more tyrannical and it makes all of us unsafe. It why more than one-quarter of US adults have a criminal record — often for things that shouldn’t even be other people’s business.
Agreed. But a lot of laws wouldn’t be necessary of people just used common sense. And we know that isn’t likely to happen!
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