My BiPolar daughter could get a CCW in Florida

[Callisto32]

36. The problem is people like you, HockeyMom.

People who are happy to give control to the state.

People who are happy to allow the state, a more-or-less unaccountable organization, to make our social decisions for us.

People who are willing to let faceless bureaucrats who don't know you, usually don't care to know anything about you (ever try to actually contact a rep?), and are convinced they know exactly what is best for you (and everyone else) to decide such things as what you can buy, and whom you can marry.

People who think like this:

"Government (the organization that creates and protects corporations) needs to save us from the evil corporations."
"Government (the organization that has killed more people than anybody else) needs to save us from the people that want to kill us."
"Government (the organization that tells terminal patients they can't have potentially life-saving medication because it may KILL THEM) please provide our health-care."

That is what is wrong with the picture, HockeyMom. People, people who have convinced themselves against all evidence and reason that governments are somehow benevolent (or at least benign).