When my wife and I were looking suitable day care for our son a few years back, we interviewed a prospective candidate. During the interview, I noticed that there were bottles of bleach and other cleaning supplies under the kitchen table, well within reach of any curious child. Before I could even register shock, I saw a broken piece of glass at my feet, a few inches away from toddlers crawling nearby. So I picked up the glass, pointed to the poison, and asked the day care worker how this could possibly be safe. Her response, and I quote: "I train all the kids in my day care not to pick up anything off the ground. They know they'll get in trouble if they do!" I know, you can't make this shit up!
As this shocking example shows, some attempts to legislate stupid boggle the mind. Telling a toddler not to pick up anything on the floor and expecting compliance is, in a word, insane.
But are all attempts to legislate stupid equally ineffective, equally pointless? What about drunk driving laws? What are drunk driving laws if not a blatant attempt to legislate stupid? And while these laws will never keep all drunks off the road, they have deterred enough stupidity, saved enough lives, to justify their effectiveness and continued existence a thousand times over.
I recognize your point that unlike driving, gun ownership is a right, not a privilege, so therefore must not be infringed upon. I disagree, given that I have a different interpretation of the 2nd Amendment (see previous posts). But to suggest that we shouldn't limit or regulate gun use on the grounds that it'll never keep criminals from getting guns, never prevent stupid gun use? That is, in a word, insane.
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