"never_moore352" wrote:
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This is all new to me, quite honestly, and disturbing. People are
building airplanes at home and then flying them? This is
endangering
people on the ground and in the air flying in real airplanes.
....

Fortunately, we have a gov't which allows people to engage in
recreational activities, some riskier than others, based upon actual
data as to the risk to the general population.

Any airplane can crash into a house and they occasionally do, but it
is extremely rare they even injure anybody. Same with automobiles,
and they hit houses much more often. There's far more meteorites
which strike earth than airplanes, but the reason there's no real
hazard to us is the statistical chances of hitting anybody, or even
houses. Collision between aircraft is extremely rare too, but whether
or a homebuilt is involved has nothing to do with the cause.

Rock climbers fall off rock faces, and most pilots won't even think of
that as their kind of recreation. But until climbers start killing
"innocent" people down below, there's no need for laws. A kid on a
skateboard can kill a frail senior citizen if he/she falls and suffers
brain injury. Maybe very rarely that has occurred, but merchants
merely post signs and cops don't arrest our kids.

The orig post is yet another instance where some people do not want
gov't controls on their recreation, but they just have to do something
about all those other people, merely because they don't understand
their form of recreation.

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