If the NRA begins the NAA

What if the National Rifle Association launched a sister organization to do for automobiles what the NRA has done for guns?  The new group could be the NAA, the National Automobile Association.  If so, I can picture their policies:

They would oppose vehicle registration because once registered liberals might confiscate their cars and trucks.  They would oppose requiring driver’s licenses to operate a motor vehicle because that would limit the number of people who could buy cars and trucks.  They would oppose mandatory car insurance as that implies when there is a wreck someone may be responsible and cars don’t wreck, people wreck.  They would oppose speed limits as that reduces the functionality of the motor vehicle and there is no reason to limit law abiding drivers from driving as fast as they want.  They would oppose seat belts as that is a silly safety precaution that adds expense to the production of cars and it is not needed for those same law abiding drivers.  They would oppose license plates as that would be a way for the government to track vehicles and thereby limit the rights of the owner and the driver.  They would oppose vehicle inspection requirements as that requires drivers to take their vehicles to state run operations to determine if the vehicle functions properly and does not pollute the environment.  When the day comes that the government can tell you that you may not drive your car it will be a loss to a great American freedom.  Further, if and when the government comes to take away your car how would you escape?

There would be a whole new crop of bumper stickers.  Cars don’t kill, people kill.  You can pry my truck keys from my cold dead hands.  Good guys with cars is the only way to stop bad guys with cars.  Bad guys won’t obey car laws anyway.  Limiting who drives what and how has never stopped wrecks. 

They would take these positions based on the 1^st amendment and freedom of expression arguing that cars and trucks are the most obvious expression of each person in America and there should be no limits to that expression.  Why should you have to have headlights and blinkers if that is not your style?

We would, of course, see traffic fatalities skyrocket and families of innocents killed by reckless drivers would have no compensation because the insurance requirement is gone.  In fact, hit and run and leaving the scene of an accident would become SOP as there would really be no consequence for driving a fast car or truck recklessly.  When an unregistered truck driven by an unlicensed driver with no vehicle inspection and no insurance crashes into a Walmart and kills 20 people we can shrug and say that is the cost of freedom.  Besides, if you don’t have a truck how can you get somewhere to hunt?

So, if the NRA positions make sense, why not the positions of the NAA?