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slowtimer
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Question: if someone brings a 30 foot boat
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6/13/2019 9:57:53 AM
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If I had a boat like that I would absolutely have a spare set of props so I could legally drive it on my home lake. It would only take about a minute to change them out if I took it to a different lake. It's a cheap and easy way to be legal it seems like. It's just like someone who has a street legal race car. They have a muffler to put on it when they drive it in the street to meet sound ordinances. The muffler gets removed at a race track.
I believe there is already a state law that restricts boat exhaust decibels. They make mufflers for the performance boats so that should eliminate the sound concern. Now we are just left with people complaining about a specific type of boat because they either have an immediate negative opinion of them or they think they are unsafe. Then we get into a situation where people get to restrict others rights because they don't like something.
I'm a libertarian so I see the other side. What if person A didn't like something that person B has and was able to get a law passed that bans what person B has. Then what happens if person B gets some power and is able to get a law passed that bans something person A has. Both
person A and B have now lost what they had and everybody else that is not involved now must abide by the new laws. If it is not actually harming someone else then I don't see a reason to ban items just because some people don't like it.
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