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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
That may be how you wish things were, but that's not the reality. You are not free to do what you want with your own property. You can't make your rifle full auto. You can't shoot heroin into your arm. You can't legally shoot yourself in the head. You can't add onto your own home on your own property without getting all kinds of permits, abiding by 1000s of rules and regulations, being subject to all kinds of inspections etc etc etc.
Virtually every aspect of your life is regulated by the laws.
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It's true that the government interferes with almost every aspect of our lives, but that does not make it right. "Might does not make right". It's true that politicians makes tons of laws and regulations (sometimes with good intentions, sometimes with less than honorable intentions), but that does not mean enforcing those laws and regulations is the same as preventing injustice. In some states and countries, people of the same sex are not allowed to voluntarily have sex with each other. Is that 'right' because it's 'a law'?
There's justice and then there's what the government does. Originally most governments were set up to prevent injustice, but that does not guarantee that everything they do serves that purpose.
Ultimately, governments are made up out of people. And people aren't perfect. People don't always act with good intentions and they can never act with perfect knowledge of what the consequences of their actions will be.
I understand that when terrible things happen (like the recent shootings), people look for a way to prevent those things from happening again. But like Gandhi said "if the means are imperfect, the result will also be imperfect". When people ask for more laws and regulations, they should be aware of that fact.