It's crazy how they have them now. For instance, here in CT, supermarkets can be open on Sundays until 9PM but they have to stop selling beer after 5PM. I can't stand all this "halfway" nonsense. We should either be "all-in" on blue laws or do away with them altogether.
That said, I vote to go "all-in" and bring the blue laws back. Have all retail and other business shut down on Sunday for the entire day. Restaurants and gas stations are fine because otherwise, people wouldn't be able to travel to visit family. But all the stores and shopping malls should be closed.
There was something special about Sundays when I was growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s. All the parents were home and in warm weather, you could smell the grilling of the hot dogs and hamburgers from every yard. Entire families sat out on their stoops at night and played Top 40 radio while playing board games like Monopoly and Risk on picnic tables. We used to ride our bicycles to the shopping plaza and jump ramps in the empty parking lots. It was nice and quiet in my neighborhood on those days. Nobody was power mowing their grass or using those infernal leaf blowers. From a distance, we could hear church bells and train whistles that we never would have heard on any other day.
It wasn't even a religion thing with me. It was just a day where everybody could slow the heck down, be with family and smell the flowers.
I think bringing them back - even if we had to do it in a secular way - would benefit our society.
We lost our culture when we lost the blue laws. People used to visit and enjoy the day off. Plans were made. Family making happened.