You should spend more energy getting mad at the morons who are not responsible with their freedoms. They give all the ammunition to the people who want greater regulations and impositions on our freedoms.
Therein lies the problem. You penalize the majority, you abrogate their rights, their hopes and their dreams in the name of controlling the actions of those who cannot be controlled, just penalized.
Freedom means not having an external control. It does not mean a total lack of control, just that the control is that of the individual and not that of some arbiter. If the expression of that freedom intrudes unduly on the freedom of someone else, then address that, but do not impose a standard that only makes sense as a means of exerting arbitrary control in the vain hope of achieving some kind of arbitrary nirvana.
Consider the right to own an automatic weapon. If you are not a felon and if you live in a jurisdiction that does not proscribe them, pay your federal tax and state tax and go get yourself one. And get yourself a sound suppressor while you are at it so you don't wake up the neighbors.
They are an expensive toy, but if you are not going to commit a crime with it you should be free to burn through your savings by going full auto.
I knew someone who used to own a 90mm recoilless rifle. He lived in a wilderness area and used it primarily to avoid avalanches. In the summer we would use it to blow stuff up. I loved visiting him and his family! So far as I know, he never used it irresponsibly to take out a light armored vehicle that did not need to be taken out.
If I want to buy a kid's meal that happens to have a toy that makes my kid happy, then who are you to stop me?
It should be my choice and it should be none of your business.
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