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12. Its the difference between regulating behavior and regulating objects.

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 03:50 PM

Dec 2012

we do good at regulating behavior that everyone accepts to be bad. We do poorly on regulating objects that are viewed as neither good or bad.

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An excellent question from Aasif Mandvi.... [View all] Playinghardball Dec 2012 OP

Laws about how you use guns work Recursion Dec 2012 #1

But traffic laws regulate cars. CJCRANE Dec 2012 #2

Nobody's talked about "regulating guns" Recursion Dec 2012 #8

Nonsense, loads of people have talked about regulating guns. EOTE Dec 2012 #10

And many others, of course, as well. EOTE Dec 2012 #13

It's just RW inertia. CJCRANE Dec 2012 #3

Roflmao RegieRocker Dec 2012 #5

I like the tweet TroglodyteScholar Dec 2012 #18

Funny laundry_queen Dec 2012 #20

Good question. k&r n/t Laelth Dec 2012 #6

I have been saying this all weekend frazzled Dec 2012 #7

Those people sure think that it works to regulate abortion. ehrnst Dec 2012 #9

I say this to the idiots mainstreetonce Dec 2012 #14

AND PatSeg Dec 2012 #15

Sounds like libertarianism... ReRe Dec 2012 #17

Why have any laws if you selectively enforce and adjudicate them? ... taxpayer2000 Dec 2012 #19