re: #492 Guanxi88

Hey, I’m just sayin’ - our society’s dealt with some pretty dangerous and deadly stuff in the hands of - or available to - the masses in the past.

I think the trend is to sort of set the bar at the lowest possible level. In the attempt to idiot-proof society, all we’ve done is improved the environment for idiots.

(And I was a paregoric baby, for the record!)

Well, I think one of the missing ingredients about that is how much more populous the country is now, and how much faster information travels. I agree we can’t idiot-proof society, but I also think it’s a bad idea to pass laws at this point to be able to just send untracable machine guns and opium all over the country. ;-)

I’m no zealot, the nanny state pisses me off, too! It hits me right where I live: my car. I personally know people whose cars would be flat out illegal if they lived in California because of the mods they’ve done to them.