I'm not a great fan of America right now, but one of the several things that they get right and we get badly wrong is that they don't prohibit the respectable millions doing and owning things on the basis of what a handful of criminal loons may do.
In the UK, the exact opposite prevails. We have no rights; we must be licensed to do mundane things. The reason for this, is that a tiny minority of our fellow citizens are bad or mad. This is very much the wrong way around.
Always remember that Allan Johnson wanted a law to force the ownership of a dog to be a licensed, trained, insured, micro-chipped, and government controlled activity.
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The dog thing is going a way too far, but here (in the US), you can blow up the earth and pump it full of toxins to extract a questionable amount of natural gas and be exempt from the clean air act.
And they think that this might be causing earthquakes in places that don't have them.
Is that better?
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