There are two kinds of people in the world.
Those who just want to be left alone, and the bothersome, meddling busybodies who just won’t leave them alone.
Nanny State PING! for our most obnoxious nanny-statist.
Read through the story, and got an immediate flashback to twenty years or so ago.
I’d flown into the NY area on an engineering job, was met by the local sales rep and transported down into the Brooklyn dock area (past a collection of burned-out vehicles and buildings, along with the biggest collection of security gates I’d ever seen) where I was to meet with the customer at his facility.
After the quick and successful meeting(s), the sales rep and I climbed back into his car for the trip back to the airport.
“So,” said the rep, “What do you think of Brooklyn?” (I was based out of Denver at that time and had cheerfully admitted that it was my very first time EVER in New York, city or state.)
“Well,” I said, “After some of the things I’ve seen here today, I’ve got to say that if we’re going to be here after dark, the Good News is that I’m qualified with the M-60 machine gun, and the Bad News is that I don’t have one with me.”