{"id":44430,"date":"2017-03-09T22:34:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T02:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44430"},"modified":"2020-07-30T22:35:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T02:35:02","slug":"turning-down-free-money-and-making-georgia-a-less-safe-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44430","title":{"rendered":"Turning down free money and making Georgia a less safe place"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TL;DR<\/a> \u2013 Acworth lawmaker pens House Bill 390, which greatly reduces the severity of punishment for rolling stop penalties, with a maximum fine of $100 and zero points added to the violator\u2019s driver\u2019s license<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m just going to assume that this dumb state rep either got a ticket for rolling through a stop sign himself, has a family member that got a ticket for rolling through a stop sign, or knows someone close who got a ticket for rolling through a stop sign. And one or more of the violators are suffering the slight financial belt-tightening that comes from the insurance hike on account of points on a license.\u00a0 And although HB 390 won\u2019t be able to retroactively go back and remove said transgressions from the violator(s)\u2019s records, it\u2019s still an action taken addressing the perceived unfairness and racial bias \u2013 of a fucking stop sign.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just it, a stop sign says \u201cstop<\/strong>,\u201d not \u201cslow down to a crawl while simultaneously looking out for opposing traffic and proceed ahead unless there\u2019s a cop in which you come to a complete stop.\u201d <\/em>\u00a0Absolutely anything other than a complete stop is a violation of the law, and should most certainly be punished as any other moving violation.\u00a0 Reducing punishment not only implies a lack of concern for the potential hazards of rolling stops, it\u2019s basically turning down free money for the state by reducing the fine associated with them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If anything at all, if I were a lawmaker, not only would I oppose HB 390, I\u2019d propose HB 093 which doubles down on the punishment for rolling stops, featuring larger fines and more license points for rolling through a stop sign, because that, would most certainly make a driver think twice about rolling through a stop sign, and probably actually stop, which slows all drivers down, which makes the state a safer place to drive.\u00a0 And those who don\u2019t, that\u2019s more revenue to the state.\u00a0 I fail to see the flaw in such a proposed bill.<\/span><\/p>\n

I also love the race card pulled in this article too, as if rolling stops are only associated with black men. As if white women, Hispanic teenagers or every single Indian immigrant on the planet weren\u2019t capable of rolling through stop signs; believe me, I\u2019ve witnessed enough of all of the above do it on too regular of a basis to laugh at the notion that rolling stop violations targeted black men more than anyone else.<\/span><\/p>\n

My first ever ticket wasn\u2019t just one ticket, it was two; one for speeding; 40 in a 25 zone, and one for rolling through a stop sign.\u00a0 I beat the speeding ticket, because I had proof that I had a malfunctioning speedometer and was following the flow of traffic, but there\u2019s no beating a rolling stop.\u00a0 I remember getting slapped with over $100 in court fees and fines, and having points on my license barely days after turning 16.\u00a0 I am not a black male, nor did I feel \u201ctargeted;\u201d I simply got caught by a vigilant cop.\u00a0 In an unmarked car.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stop signs exist for safety reasons.\u00a0 To slow cars down, and to make it safe for people not in cars to actually be able to move about outdoors without fear of getting hit and\/or run over by maniacal drivers.\u00a0 They do not exist to troll drivers, weed out black men or generate money for law enforcement.\u00a0 Diminishing punishment for violation of the law not only diminishes the importance of the law, but slaps the face of societal norm that dictates that when you see a stop sign, it\u2019s now merely a slap on the wrist as much as a bad behavior that needs to be corrected, if you roll through it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bottom line is that this is idiotic.\u00a0 If this bill passes, Georgia has taken a step back in the wrong direction when it comes to both enforcing safety and generating revenue.\u00a0 Two things that should probably be headed in the opposite direction that this proposed bill is moving in.\u00a0 But because some lawmakers and\/or black men feel slighted by rolling stop violations, the law apparently needs to be changed.\u00a0 Fuck that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TL;DR \u2013 Acworth lawmaker pens House Bill 390, which greatly reduces the severity of punishment for rolling stop penalties, with a maximum fine of $100 and zero points added to the violator\u2019s driver\u2019s license I\u2019m just going to assume that this dumb state rep either got a ticket for rolling through a stop sign himself, … Continue reading Turning down free money and making Georgia a less safe place<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,147,112,30,8,165],"class_list":["post-44430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-cheating","tag-crime","tag-justice","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44432,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44430\/revisions\/44432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}