Laws based on fear? I’m afraid so.

I was reading an opinion piece that portrayed “Stand Your Ground” and Castle Doctrine laws as being “Laws Based on Fear”

And that got me thinking: aren’t most laws based on fear?

Fear that someone is going to rob us, rape us, hurt our children, or get an unfair advantage on the stock market?

I bet if we eliminated all the laws based on fear we’d be left with nothing but parking tickets and state-run lotteries.

3 comments June 25th, 2012