Road enforcement provided for safety

To the editor:

Opponents of enforcement cameras rant and rave about Big Brother watching, and they see themselves as victims when ticketed, but they have no regard for the dead and maimed that come from speed and red light violators.

Humans don't have the ability to police their own driving. If you'd get rid of all law and enforcement on the roads, and get it the way the majority want it, all hell would break loose on the highways, and the only place you would go to on the roads would be to the cemetery. Humans need the constant club of enforcement and penalty over their heads 24/7 to keep the fear of God in them.

Enforcement cameras need some multibillion campaign to pump favorable propaganda into them and to buy lawmakers, then we'd have enforcement cameras at every intersection, along every road and hidden and mobile cameras and Gov. Terry Branstad would be all in favor of them, and the public would love them.

If the pro-life lawmakers really lived up to their titles, they'd be constantly working for crash prevention on the roads. Their silence and non-involvement on the latter make them hypocrites. Why doesn't 'thou shalt not kill” apply when on the accelerator? Herman Lenz

Sumner