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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he is considering requiring bicyclists to be licensed and registered like automobile drivers currently are.
According to a report in the New York Daily News on Wednesday, the mayor also wants to expand the city's safety regulations, which already have won it a nanny-state reputation, to include requiring Citi Bike renters to wear helmets.
Mr. de Blasio called the idea of forcing cyclists to have licenses and registration a "valid discussion," the Daily News reported, and added that he also plans a crackdown on cyclists who break traffic laws.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/4/bill-de-blasio-eyes-licenses-bike-riders/
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Booga1 on Friday September 06 2019, @12:09PM (11 children)
Oh, it's more interesting than that. From the CDC:
Comparing year to year numbers from the FBI for 2015 arranged by weapon [fbi.gov], there were 252 murders committed with rifles of any sort.
So, bicycles are already more dangerous than assault rifles.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 06 2019, @12:58PM (9 children)
Yeah, I remember the Pulse nightclub bicycle massacre. A guy armed with a 10-speed bicycle killed 49 victims in minutes.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Friday September 06 2019, @01:29PM (6 children)
That's the trick, right? Kill 'em slowly, one at a time, so nobody notices.
You can kill 100 people a day in car wrecks. Where's the outrage? But crash a single 737? Oh lordy!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Informative) by Coward, Anonymous on Friday September 06 2019, @02:24PM (5 children)
The problem is that two crashed, and even highly-paid professionals were unable to fly them safely.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 06 2019, @03:32PM (4 children)
Ethiopian pilots only make $60 per day: https://www.pilotjobsnetwork.com/jobs/Ethiopian_Airlines [pilotjobsnetwork.com]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 06 2019, @03:41PM (1 child)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 06 2019, @03:44PM
And how much can they buy for $60 in Ethiopia?
40 acres and a mule?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 06 2019, @04:48PM
Per diem $60/day - That's NOT pay, that's extras.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Friday September 06 2019, @05:16PM
$60 per day is the per diem rate. That's what they get for travel expenses. It is not their salary.
(Score: 3, Informative) by PinkyGigglebrain on Friday September 06 2019, @07:35PM (1 child)
Yeah, I remember the Bastille day massacre in Nice. A guy armed with a truck killed 86 people in minutes.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @04:22AM
It was a truck of peace, you bigot!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @01:11PM
I grew up in a family of 9. My mother was the only one NOT to have a bicycle. My father was the only one to have a gun. Anecdotal though this evidence may be, if you divide the death toll from bicycles by 8 to get a slightly better comparison of number of deaths by cause per owner of object that caused the death, that is the fraction deaths/(cause*#object owners), does your point make as much sense as you originally thought?
I didn't even have to bring up the health benefits of the exercise biking provides, or the usefulness in some areas of bicycles as a means of transportation, but please also consider those in your evaluation, as those are value added to society by bicycles. Gun usage isn't known to help reduce heart disease, just some food for thought.