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Umbram Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:54 AM
Response to Reply #129
132. No dice.
Ok. Maybe "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" (which aren't constitutional protections, by the way) also back your ability to drink alcohol while driving, or even just have empty containers in your car, since alcohol is a "LEGAL product in the USA." If you ever get stopped for DUI, let me know how far your appeal makes it.

Do you favor overturning laws against rape? Murder? (I too can throw out barely relevant questions!)

The states have "police power" which includes the power to regulate health and welfare of citizens. Somehow I think that it overrides whatever "pursuit of happiness" argument that people who want to fill their kids with smoke, huff paint, drive drunk, etc, care to make.



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