Same old..., you absolutely, positively cannot fix, regulate or legislate stupidity. When you try all you do is place the burden on those that are not stupid. As Cesare Beccaria wrote in "On Crimes and Punishments" (1764) - "False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm those only who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer?" John Adams and Thomas Jefferson thought highly of his papers and writings.
Point being, be very careful what you wish for, you may very well get it, and more. You might not like the outcome...
Point being, be very careful what you wish for, you may very well get it, and more. You might not like the outcome...
