Torrington Representative Michelle Cook is active repealing redundant and stupid laws to simplify law enforcement and give us all faith in our legal system. Drugs are illegal, but if you have drugs near a school that is MORE illegal. \u00a0As though a law to make people obey other laws is useful. \u00a0Let’s all check over the nearest hill to see if there is a school there before using any drugs.<\/p>\n

In effect 1500 feet from every school is most of Torrington.\u00a0As though a drug user will check to see if there is a school over the hill before lighting up. \u00a0If you want an enforceable law make it 200 feet from a school, that is something the police can enforce. \u00a0It also means the offender know the school is near. \u00a0It is much more reasonable than charging someone in their own home for marijuana possession just because that home is near a school.<\/p>\n

So the Republican say, nooooo, Michelle Cook must like criminals. \u00a0She doesn’t want to cut off the heads of child molesters and waterboard murderers, she must be soft on crime. \u00a0But any thinking person, I mean this, anyone who thinks beyond “bad people near school” knows better.<\/p>\n

People are criminals. \u00a0Real people. \u00a0I met a pilot at a party and I don’t want to tell any of you this. \u00a0He is a felon. \u00a0And he works for a major airline. If I told Republicans the name of the airline that could be a problem. \u00a0So and So Hires Felons! They gave him a chance and he is grateful. \u00a0Republicans would cut off his hands, but he lived past prison to make a life and family and I respect that.<\/p>\n

It seems to Republicans that if anyone ever breaks a law, no matter how stupid the law, they should spend the rest of their lives in prison. \u00a0Okay, I am exaggerating. \u00a0Some Democrats think so too.<\/p>\n

Any law that has not been invoked should sunset. \u00a0I just got back from a third world country where babes in arms were held on the back of motorcycles with bicycles in tow, on the same motorcycle, like a tow truck. \u00a0No one wears helmets. The sewers were open, no railings or fences, and anyone who wasn’t careful could put a wheel in those sewers. \u00a0They were dry, but when it rained they filled up fast. \u00a0I saw the evidence of two accidents in my ten days of driving all over the country. \u00a0One was a large truck in the median on its side and the other was a pickup truck who had spun out in the rain. \u00a0On the way from the NY airport to home I saw four accidents.<\/p>\n

Laws construct our legal system, but laws do not make people honest. \u00a0It should not be illegal to leave your children in a hot car until they die. \u00a0If someone does that to their children it was an accident and no amount of prison time will prevent such an accident. \u00a0It should be illegal to risk injury, to neglect or mistreat children. \u00a0But no one accidentally kills their children and then deserves prison on top of that, unless they\u00a0deliberately\u00a0risked injury, neglected or mistreated the children as well.<\/p>\n

Many of our laws make our lawmakers feel good, sound good, but don’t do anything. \u00a0Like whether it is 1500 feet or 200 feet from a school. \u00a0Pretty near all of Torrington is withing 1500 feet of a school. \u00a0Like maybe I would buy drugs from you but isn’t there a school over that hill? \u00a0Let’s go out of town to do the deal. Do you have a car? \u00a0Oh let’s just forget it, I don’t really want your drugs anyway.<\/p>\n

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