Quote Originally Posted by redheep View Post
I agree that there are things that need to be legislated. I don't want someone driving drunk into my family or handing out meth in candy bags to my kids at school.

But I'm also a little bit of a fatalist. If it's my turn to take the golden bb, then my time is up. I am smart enough (although not that smart) to keep most dangerous things at bay. The idea that the government will protect you through legislating your freedoms is very Soviet Union. That's not what the castoffs of the British Empire intended.

Absolutely agree that there are things that need to be, could be legislated. I would legislate any area where somebody's rights are actually infringing on another. Notice I said actually and not could be. Someone could infringe on their neighbor by shooting them, running them over, beating them, hitting them with a golf ball, but that doesn't mean we outlaw any of those activities, it means that we make it illegal to kill or maim your damn neighbor.