"It's simply not considered a crime ..."

The drivers may simply not have been at fault in the incidents you are aware of.

OK, that'd be different; still not an automatic "bring down" though.

A couple-pound plastic widget is not going to bring down an airliner after a collision, unless it's exceedingly (un)lucky. Large planes can take impact from much bigger objects and keep flying.

Luckily not "many" - many enough to be referred to as a voting block in the grandparent. Surely less than 47%.

If many voters need politicians' help to satisfy their "needs to eat", something is very wrong.

Good point ... were it not that the law itself can be illogical / capricious.

... or maybe they have a sense that taxes are a necessary evil. One might feel schadenfreude at the violators due to the former ... but also sympathy due to the latter.

The future has arrived. http://tracking-point.com/

The nice thing is that no one has to waste their time trying to convince little you about anything. Your opinions don't matter.

"I'll happily put this on my own guns after the police have used it for five years on theirs," ... or all persons protecting the good congressman.

"They also asked the 1,200 of the scientists involved in the research to self-evaluate their own studies, with nearly identical results."

This must be some kind of joke (or a poor summary). "self-evaluate own studies .. identical results" is an in-effect tautology.

Maybe it's cheaper to remake than to rerun?