We're already past the "fuck it" phase. 16.7% of fatal crashes involve unlicensed drivers (NHTSA FARS 2023 ARF).

Appropriate! I'm actually a pro-2A gun owner who believes states should have licensee-paid training course requirements operated by ranges alongside properly funded per-gun licensing programs, both of which potential buyers would have to pass/obtain before use, perhaps additionally subsidized with a small annual fee per gun.

I definitely am guided in this opinion by the way I think we should regulate cars. Cars and guns are way more analogous to one another than hard-line advocates for either are usually comfortable admitting. I think that both have their place but need to be treated responsibly. The current lassiez-faire approach in most states is definitly a major factor in the number of deaths attributable to both. This doesn't mean it has to feel punitive or be needlessly difficult, it just has to comprehensively address obvious risk factors.

Worst killing machines first, but I'm not opposed.

Gotta rip off that band-aid! Every flunk is an opportunity captured to educate an under-trained driver or identify what is otherwise making them unsafe. It wouldn't just be about taking these people off the road, it would be about making them safe enough to go back on it should they be willing to do the work required to get there. I had an ex who's mom drove around without Rx lenses and literally couldn't read the road signs. Just a rolling disaster waiting to happen. If she had to re-test she probably wouldn't flunk, she'd just finally get her prescription filled. There are probably millions of situations like hers that simply having a test on the horizon would fix.

It would not be an administrative nightmare. Many other responsibilities in society require more rigorous continuous government compliance than one test every five years, fluid administration of compliance generally just depends on sufficient funding for that administration.

Lawsuits challenge every new law we create, that's par for the course and surviving that just requires well-considered legislation and state attorneys. You knock down the first lawsuit and the rest get denied on precedent of the first.

These aren't the damning challenges you might think they are. They pale in comparison to the real challenge: Getting popular support for such a bill in the first place.

Damn, remind me never to get into the media.