CapnMac
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Given the maturity of the bulk of the drivers here, 5mph and mandatory rubber baby bumpers, since easily 80% are paying less than 50% attention.Living in the DFW area, I would put the speed limit at 25 mph and that is more than the average person here, that lacks basic discipline could handle.
Problem with that is the ±5 million goobers around here would ignore those laws the same as they ignore all the rest. To see any effect, we'd likely need around 50K traffic-specific LEO . . .
The title is a legacy of when they were a tax bureau of the IRS.Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
Guns are obviously not the only thing they regulate, although here that might be the only thing we care about. Shutting them down would probably not be a good idea.
They currently only regulate Firearms and Explosives.
The point above, that somebody has to interpret the gibberish spewed out by past Congresses, and define the "go" and "no go." A major issue is not that the agency exists, it's that it's not held to answer for its transgressions and trespasses.
And, they are a convenient scapegoat for legislative incompetence.