Early this morning in Charlotte, there was a horrible car crash. One person died. The crash was the result of a person going the wrong way on an interstate highway.

It is indeed sad that this has happened. The press has been reporting all day, and cannot mention the accident without saying that 7 people have died in 5 wrong-way accidents on the interstates in Charlotte in the last 6 months. Of course, they leave out how many of the people who caused the accidents were illegal immigrants and/or drunk.

Even worse, the coverage shows how out of touch the press really is. On the morning radio reports, radio "news" reports, the reporter kept complaining that the area where the accident happened didn't have any street lights -- not that the lack of lights caused the accident, but that not having the lights made REPORTING THE ACCIDENT difficult! In other words, we should have all interstates lighted everywhere so REPORTERS can see better. Holy cow.

But there's more. Most reports are focusing on "what can be done about this?" News flash for the reporters: IT'S AN ACCIDENT! However, this does show the absolutely insanely liberal point of view of the press and the media -- if ANYTHING bad happens, government should solve the problem.

They are debating -- should we have more lights? Should we have flashing lights? Should there be more signs? Should there be more cameras for monitoring the traffic? Should there be ways to notify drivers who are driving the right way? Should there be spikes in the road?

The whole point of view says that the problem CAN be solved. It cannot. Life is not safe. For some reason the left/media/Democrats cannot understand that. Life is dangerous. People make mistakes. People die. It's not a good thing, I'm not celebrating, I'm just saying that is it quite impossible to make sure that no one dies, ever, despite the desires of the media/Democrats/left.

Maybe we could do what Democrat politicians always do -- let's make it illegal to drive the wrong way on the interstate! What? That's already illegal? No problem, we'll continue the Democrat way -- we'll make it MORE illegal! Yes, let's increase the fines for driving the wrong way on the interstate. That will stop the drunk illegals from driving the wrong way, won't it?

Life is not safe. No amount of government intervention will ever make it so.

Posted by: Ogre at 04:04 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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