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Originally Posted by Rayner
A think a better question is: Why *is* there a need for it? The only explanation I've ever heard is to protect the cop during a traffic stop. Yet the tint on the rear window can be 'limo style.' If you're approaching from the rear, a bad guy can shoot through the back window same as he can through a side window.
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That's why we need atleast the front windows to see something. So you are suggesting no tinted window then I take it?
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There's no need for a law on window tint. Many people are sensitive to the sun -- they burn, it hurts their eyes, etc. Even eye doctors will tell you that you need to limit your eyes' exposer to the sun. But if you can't have your side windows tinted, you're doing nothing but ruining your eyes with sunlight.
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You can just get a doctors note, it isn't that hard.
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Oh goodie. The "victim appreciation" card. I love those. I bet the victim and their family would be happier if the cops were able to prevent the crime to begin with. Or perhaps they'd be happier if California self and home defense laws were like they are in Texas.
That you just "happened" to catch a guy by his front plates isn't really a convincing argument. That's somehow like you're trying to suggest the guy would go un-caught forever were it not for those front plates. I think you just got lucky, honestly. The truly bad guys who flaunt their lack of respect for the laws wouldn't have a front plate for you to see anyway. It's kinda like a person who's messed up enough mentally to do a school shooting doesn't care that there's a sign saying "No guns allowed" on the campus.
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Yes I did get lucky. But if the guy had no plate, he would eventually get pulled over for no front plate. It works either way.
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Originally Posted by Rayner
Incorrect. Many of these laws were on the books before I was even voting age. So I had no hand in creating them or putting them in place.
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Then start a movement if you want. But as of now, society as a whole has spoken to their benefit.
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As every state is different, though, it's lame to drive cross-country and be illegal in one state and then legal in another. Are you telling me that my tint or whatever is magically so much more nefarious simply because I crossed a state line? I doubt it.
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Don't drive cross country if you don't like the other states laws. Why would you go somewhere if you don't like it there? Just because you have you're own personal opinion on how things should be, it doesn't make it right. The community chooses as a whole what is right, what is wrong. By the sound of it, you should be happy there are different state laws.