Lol, wut? Is this true in your country?
Well, I live in the suburbs, at the top of a hill. I cant walk to stores, and there are no busses, and with my old knees, going up the hill on a bike is impossible. My job involves driving, so “Telecommute or move” doesnt work. Uber is just someone else doing the driving with a car.
Taking this in a different direction - how about electricity? An argument can be made that the creation of electricity contributes to climate change in negative ways that potentially leads to the loss of life. (Don’t ask me to make the argument, we’re writing science fiction here, yah?)
I started thinking about specific consumer products, because it always strikes me that guns occupy a unique position in our constitution and laws, but are at the basics a consumer product. What other consumer product would elicit such strong attachment if taken away? Perhaps refrigerators? TVs? Computers for sure. But then I considered that they all rely on electricity.
What if we were told that “they” were coming for our electricity? That would get me up out of my chair.
You will wrest my air conditioning unit out of my comfortably cold, dead hands.
My workplace is two miles away, so walking is out. We get bad weather at least three months a year, so relying on a bike is out. Bus service is spotty and inconvenient, so that’s out. We don’t have trains here, so that’s out.
And if there are ubers or hirable limos, there isn’t a car ban.
Ha ha ha no.
Good god man, get a grip.
In this thread constitutionality is off the table. Remember the OP? Yeah. So don’t bother rambling about rights - this thread isn’t about things we have “rights” to.
And I EXPLICITLY SAID I wouldn’t become a lawbreaker. So yeah.
Red Barchetta
If you outlaw any of my ‘Sacred Cows’, I just become an outlaw. Fuck The Man! I do what I want.
I got 4 dogs in a county that has a limit of 3. You can’t stop me. I’m out of control! I water on Mother-Fucking Monday! I don’t rewind DVDs I get from the library. I open the lid on my water meter access to get a reading, several times a month! I drive right past the “Parking Lot Full” sign every time I go skiing. You can’t stop me.
Yep, and in my answer to the OP that would be Just To Damn Bad, you still don’t get to drive a car unless you go get the license for work driving only, uber, Lyft, company business in a company owned vehicle. All closely tracked to ensure no personal driving is done.
Two miles? Thats all?
Limos and uber and Lyft are strictly regulated commercial ventures in my answer to the op, even if it’s a one owner proprietorship, those folks aren’t going to be using those cars to get groceries for themselves or run other personal errands.
Comstitutionality, yes it is part of the discussion. The OP was asking for a comparison to the fight over gun ownership in the US, constiturional rights are the very core of that fight.
They sure as heck want their bodyguards to have them.
What they said – ain’t THAT a combination that you never expected 
@ the OP: Maybe just Internet. I sure would fight tooth and nail against someone trying to take my Internet away.
Winner winner chicken dinner.
I’ve seen some radical types who opine, quite seriously, that kids who aren’t academic achievers in elementary school should be cut loose and that further education is a waste of time, especially if the kids don’t want to be there anyway. If my district tried to cut loose 11-year-olds who were below grade level, I’d be on that harder than any gun nut you’ve ever seen.