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I mean, then so is not allowing people to randomly test nukes on their own property.
As is every law against suicide or selling clearly harmful chemicals.
The penalty is a ticket, and rarely enforced, get over your shit.
You confused personal choice with putting others in danger.
I don't care if another adult is not wearing a seatbelt ... it's not my business. If someone is building a dangerous explosive weapon then it does concern me and that is where regulations kick in.
Personal Freedom. The key word is "personal". You may like having the government be your mother, but some of us don't fucking trust the government at this point.
I trusted the government far more than i trusted a lot of the inbred redneck neighbors I had.
When your neighbors have played Pokémon to collect all the recessive genes regarding cognition, it's good to have the government to protect you from their stupidity.
Dunno ... seems like you just won my argument against seatbelts being required right there. Thin the gene pool.
We have rat poison, cockroach traps, everything.
Vermin outbreed all attempts to stop them, that's their evolutionary strategy.