Scary words: “Something’s got to be done about this!”
These words precede so many stupid laws. Just because something is terrible, doesn’t mean that anything needs to be done and definitely doesn’t mean a law needs to be passed.
Crimes, accidents, and disasters happen daily. Some are acts of nature, some are freak coincidences, some are the result of human stupidity, some are the result of malice. In 99% of cases, there was already a law that someone broke that resulted in the bad outcome. Piling on more laws is not going to fix that.
“Scary words: ‘Something’s got to be done about this!’”
Exactly!
Something must be done!
This is something!
Therefore, it must be done!