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Not really but it is demonstrative of the point. Rehnquist himself said it was a breach of the 4th Amendment, and drunk driving is still a thing. We have neither liberty nor safety, but we can all feel better because we did “something”.

There are ONLY FOUR PEOPLE TO BLAME for this terrible decision & unfathomable disrespect to a man who has dedicated most of his adult life to teaching & coaching the young people of LaPorte. Blame the 4 (out of 7) school board members who voted NO to the recommendation from AD/Principal/Super to hire Bob James as HC.

Canada does make a lot of good beer......and mountains, a LOT of really cool mountains.

But what if we want to invade them?

I know a lot of people here don't like Trudeau or Obrador, but I am also pretty sure neither of them are invading us anytime soon. 🤣

Hypocrite of the week:

Sounds to me like this law wasn't even needed. If anything it will potentially drive businesses from coming here.

Did not see a "go ahead and just take my money" topic on the first 3 pages here, so it was important I post it here. I have no idea how I am expected to save for retirement when there is this level of genius in our world.

...and it's also something that can be handled by the body that licenses cops in your State.

Screenshot in case @sr1deletes it. Maybe we should... defund them 🙂

The head to head beat down by the Wolverines on the Irish should equate to something! Michigan didn't need the weather or whatever Buckeye excuse. They manhandled the Buckeyes upfront on both sides of the ball. They had more fight & desire that day and it clearly showed. As for the topic at hand, I'd say Eastside but they've actually probably jumped to the next level. They're excelling in multiple sports & extra curricular activities lately.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/27/uvalde-shooting-police-gunman-shot-olivarez/ Hearing the LEO spokesman last week utter "They could've been shot" as a justification for not entering the classroom as soon as they arrived and engaging the idiot perp really struck SF as dead wrong. THAT'S WHAT WE THE CITIZENS PAY YOU TO DO!!!! Speaking with our local Police Chief, the policy in Elkhart County is "get in there and engage" which means if your the only cop on scene (after you get over the "sucks to be you right now" attitude), use your training and try to end the situation as quickly as possible, and history shows that to be the case. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/3-dead-including-gunman-indiana-supermarket-shooting-article-1.1581555 Officials praised the officers for acting quickly and preventing more deaths.

As someone who has never owned a firearm, and probably never will, this is a much more compelling argument against gun control than the usual “we have to protect ourselves from the government oppressors.”

Access is tied to money. You must need a lot to compensate for.

The debate around gun violence is another one I find fascinating, in no small part because the issue has become so weaponized in the political arena. But it also seems to me that the debate is largely irreconcilable because there are actually two separate issues being treated as one. You can’t expect the same solution to work for two separate “problems.” The first problem can be described as the “violent crime” problem. Some might phrase the problem as too many guns, involving too much firepower, being too available, with the result being a lot of people getting shot. The second problem is the “active shooter” problem: Firearms winding up in the hands of a mentally unbalanced person, who subsequently is involved in a mass shooting. These are two distinct problems which call for distinctly different solutions. The first problem is typically addressed through legislative efforts to impose restrictions on certain types of weaponry and the transferability of weapons, as well as tracking of weapons ownership through registration and licensing requirements. Historically, these are the cases that have tested the boundaries of the Second Amendment. The “pro-gun” folks routinely oppose any expansion of government in this area. And you can see why it is in their interests to do so. The second problem is addressed wholly differently, through the analysis of information about an individual, often in the form of background checks, criminal history, and other information, in an effort to identify the people we don’t want to have access to firearms. Certainly, there can be legitimate concerns about the nature and extent of the information necessary, the manner in which it is acquired, how it is used, etc. But the basic premise is one on which we should all be able to agree: it is not in the best interests of society to arm crazy people. Yet, the “pro-gun” people continue, for the most part, to oppose any extensions of this information-gathering process, in the misguided belief that it represents the same sort of threat to their “rights” as gun owners as the solutions used to address problem #1. That’s wrong, and the only argument mustered in favor of that misguided stance is the dreaded “slippery slope” argument. Can we just stop with using that illogical and intellectually lazy rationale to justify otherwise speculative conclusions? https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/slippery-slope

I know this is probably not the social media platform to get on my soapbox, but has the IHSAA ever thought about making rules and regulations to ban and punish schools who openly or clandestinely recruit student athletes from other school districts? Yes I realize we are in a world of win at all costs, but is that the message we as educators/coaches want to portray instead of character, integrity, and good sportsmanship? All this nonsense whether it is true or not of recruiting in the past or the present or in the future; is plain selfishness...

So sorta like we concede our collective 4th Amendment rights so we can have DUI Checkpoints so we can rid the nation’s roads of drunk drivers. I guess it was a small price to pay to no longer have drunk drivers on the road…..