And you might change that opinion if you are ever in an accident while being a passenger in an Uber 'taxi' and it turns out he's missing all the liability insurance that are requisite for any form of public transport company in the netherlands and it turns out his personal insurance doesn't cover 'professional services' as every consumer car insurance policy in the Netherlands does.

I agree. When I compare the actual service I get in the average taxi compared to before 2000 (when the current regulation was instated) things have improved markedly, at least here in Amsterdam. It's expensive, but then, it always was, even before the current regulations, at least now there's some associated costs that justify the price.

Mostly, the 'taxiwet' (cab law) was instated as a quality assurance mechanism. A way to ensure that a driver actualy knew his way around town and wouldn't (at least inadvertently) rip off his passengers. Currently, the law is being changed to allow for companies like Uber to compete effectively, but there's still a prequisite for drivers to hand over a 'VOG', which is wat for an employer to check if a (possibly future) employee has broken any laws in their field in the past, it costs a whooping 25 euro's and can only be requested by the individual themselves as a security measure.Taxi drivers also need to pass a competencytest, something Uber has stated that they would do, but has been trying to circumvent ever since by running a 'darknet' version of Uber limiting the people who could actualy use it to avoid being caught circumventing this requirement.

I'd hate to break it to you, but the rest of the world is a big place, and while you might consider yourself moraly superior to large parts of the world, that world (usualy people in that same large part that you feel superior to) considers what you feel is a 'decent person' to be a guntoting fanatic that's loud obnoxious and has an inflated sense of selfworth because he has been indoctrinated from birth that the US of A is the best.

And, like my neighbour, I also am the queen of Sheba

To quote an old southern rock band "handguns are made for killing, they ain't good for nothing else". Ask yourself, what legitimate uses are there for a car, and then what legitimate uses are there for a gun? The difference would be in intended use, and no matter how much the gun industry toots it's horns, if everyone in the US just owned the thing for sport, you'd need a lot more shooting ranges. Also, it's nice to call cars more dangerous then a gun, but try and be at least statistically accurate and compare the number of cars owned to the number of guns owned and then look at the number of injured. I'm gonna guess the percentages differ somewhat.