Well, at this level of generality, I haven't found anything to disagree
with so far. Even on the gun issue, Dave :-).

In fact, I'd like to still be able to find books at the library on
making explosives and to go easily buy the ingredients and try them out
at my own risk, without the law interfering. I did that as a kid. I
can't say it was absolutely legal, even back then, but nobody got very
excited about it.

I got put on juvenile parole for running away from home. My parole
officer once asked me if I was still making zip guns (muzzleloaders).
I didn't even know he knew about it :-). Being basically honest, I
replied in the affirmative. His response was that I'd better not be
carrying one when I saw him :-).

Note that if I'd hurt or killed someone, the penalty would have been a
lot more severe than it'd likely be today. As it should have been.

I do wonder if we're not just tinkering around the edges of a broken
system. Here's a snowball in hell idea. Let's make running the
country/state/county/city a duty and draft people to do it. They serve
their few years and go back to whatever they were doing before and can
never again get involved in politics. Combine that with recall and
referendum abilities and we might (emphasize might) have a better
system.


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