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Also, car windshields are surprisingly bullet resistant.
Richard M. Nixon
The story I read about this yesterday also mentioned the police measuring the tire mark on the girl's pant leg at about mid to upper thigh level.
A better idea would be the Treasury/Executive Branch/President making the case that Congress already effectively raised the "debt ceiling" by approving budgets that require borrowing to effectuate. Congress can't have it both ways. They can't say "borrow money to pay for our spending" and "don't borrow money to pay for our spending" at the exact same time, referring to the exact same spending. So, if Congress brought the President to the Supreme Court to try to stop Treasury from issuing bonds without their explicit additional permission, they'd run into a) logic, b) reality, and c) the 14th Amendment. And, the markets wouldn't freak, because Congress clearly is still in control of spending, raising taxes and indirectly, borrowing.
http://13bankers.com/excerpt/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-26…
from http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat…
Oh, it's more of a Mitt Economy than you know - most job creation is in high tech in Blue cities, the Red rural areas are not doing very well.
Oh, wait, it was the police.
In this specific instance, it's pretty hard to tell from the video who's at fault...the girl seems to kind of step into the path of the car. It's not even clear the driver knew she was trying to save the spot.
You can allege that people shouldn't hold onto parking spaces in this manner, but there is NEVER any right on the part of the psycho behind the wheel who just has to have that spot and will run over a person for it. Jesus. She could have honked or done any number of things instead.
Just because someone is in command of a 5000-lb motorized conveyance does not mean they are immune to laws regarding battery and assault. They're still a person, with no more rights than any other person.
So in short, while it's not cool to run over assholes, and assholes--no matter what--unquestionably maintain their right of way as pedestrians, I don't have a lot of sympathy for someone who gets nudged by a car strictly because of their aforementioned assholishness, even if they do have the right of way (and to be clear, the driver in this specific scenario, if she did indeed "lunge" straight into this girl without giving her a chance to get out of the way, is the asshole here).
Nevertheless, I understand your point: Swissyland, the peaceable nation of Guntopia; even they choose to implement rational gun management laws.
As the article suggested, I also sought and read info on the prior 'big incident' in which a Swiss madman shot up a courthouse. The story said that it was followed by a national call for better gun management - defeated. The voters see their citizen 'army at large' as national defense. They consider it as the reason they weren't overtaken by Nazis.
My father in law expressed a similar sentiment as to why Japan never landed in (continental) America during WWII. Apparently, they were too afraid to even dare.
And you're also wrong about this incident. You either didn't watch the video, or your outsized rage at the girl blinded you to the obviously dangerous way the SUV accelerated at the girl. This was no "nudge." The driver was literally on the brakes just in time (like, hundredths of a second) to keep from seriously injuring the girl.
"Hit," "struck," "came into contact," "run over" - all these terms are interchangeable in a situation like this. Learn that, if nothing else.
Also, if you look at the video, there's an empty space a few spots back and to the left. The driver decided risking that girl's safety (and if the driver hadn't braked in time, the girl could have been seriously hurt) was better than backing up a few spaces.
Unless maybe she dropped a contact lens and didn't want a car in the space before she found it. But that's unlikely to be the case here.
Anyway, if the driver thought it was worth driving to a pedestrian to get, it was probably worth saving.