Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[jeffster]

Realistically, I don't think anyone wants people to have to go through background checks and get police reports to buy a car, but I do think there's value in recognizing that the primary mode of transportation for most Canadian can also be very effectively misused as a weapon.

I know this is going to sound like a 'straw man' argument, but I digress. Two problems: 1) False sense of security. While I don't know the details of Nathaniel, of what his background was, but it may have been clean. So it wouldn't have been caught. 2) Like most gun murders in Canada, it's also a huge possibility that even with a background check (and subsequent denial) that they'd still get their hands on a car.

My last car accident, actually, was with someone without a license, without insurance, without ownership. He 'didn't have it on him'. But there are a lot of drivers already on the road that aren't driving legally. Since we now live in a time were people do running stops, right of red without stopping, 30 over the limit, with almost zero police charging these people, one could get a car and just attempt to drive and obey the traffic laws and never be caught.