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Do laws create victims?
I'm thinking about the gun control debate. Gun control advocates say that with less guns and more restrictions, less people will be harmed by them. Their opposition says that less guns will leave us more vulnerable to those with them. Then with drugs, if they were not illegal, would there be large cartels of criminals supplying them and creating more crime than just the sale and possession? This is beyond the cliche quote of "If _____ is outlawed, only outlaws will _____." I believe the rules that governments put in place to protect us from ourselves only prepare us to fall under the weight of our own humanity.
Caution is good and all. Self preservation is what living organisms are all about. Still, shouldn't these be individual decisions, rather than blanket laws?
Every time a new civil law is proposed, I cringe.
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