Our legislators have been coming up with excuses to ignore the second amendment for decades now. This country is pretty evenly split between people who think guns are evil and people who understand they are merely a tool. Legislators are working to correct that imbalance too. They would like it if most of us had an irrational fear of guns.

The gun control issue is not about controlling guns. It is about controlling people. When a legislator enacts laws that restrict American citizens’ gun rights, they are not only violating the Second Amendment, they are telling Americans we are not responsible enough to handle tools. While that may be true in a few cases, I don’t want politicians arbitrarily deciding which people may have guns and which may not. After all, as a group, Congress doesn’t seem all that responsible either.

What happens when you allow legislators to ignore the document designed to keep power where it belongs, in the hands of the people?

The Washington Post Magazine reports that twenty-one year old Lora lost her temper and flung an empty water bottle and her car keys.

Unfortunately for her, the car keys landed near her mother. For that, Lora was arrested, booked, and told she must not have any contact with her mom for three days, even though she was still living at home. Officer Mike Twomey, who assisted in the arrest, remarks that “in the old days, the proper response would have been to say, ‘hey, ladies, cool it.’ Now, arrest is the only option.”

Foolishness happens. But sometimes it happens by design. Should a person be restricted from owning guns for a lifetime because they have one bad day?

Read it and weep. If you use encryption, Minnesota considers you a criminal. Very dangerous precedents being set by Big Brother these days.

Before long, any government official will be able to sleep with your wife on your wedding night. OK, maybe I’m leaping ahead a decade or two from now. Remain complacent. As long as the TV is crappy and the potato chips are full of heart clogging fat, and you have a comfy coach, there is no need for any sense of urgency or activism.

I have PGP installed, and I’m keeping it. I have a right to privacy and I’m ready to defend it. I’m not willing to have my mind or anus probed on a bureaucrat’s demand just because someone else may or may not be hiding Very Bad Things®.

Web loggers, who pride themselves on freewheeling political activism, might face new federal rules on candidate endorsements, online fundraising and political ads, though bloggers who don’t take money from political groups would not be affected.

The pride and joy of Americans everywhere, the FEC, is considering regulating how you blog. This all sounds good in theory. It sounds nice that the government is going to force political bloggers to report where their money is coming from. If that’s where the story ended, everything would be grand.

The problem is, once you allow a little regulation, you inevitably get a lot. Before too long, the FEC will be requiring bloggers to submit their political opinions for a six month review. They’ll have to be licensed, of course. A blogger review board will be created, and bloggers who draw its wrath will be fined or imprisoned for violating the will of the FEC Honesty in Blogging Regulatory Commission, which will be run by self-righteous tight asses who are no good in bed.

This is the nature of government. It starts off with good intentions, or at least the appearance of good intentions. In the end, government grows to a size that is no longer able to sustain itself and collapses, usually in a violent revolution. The only way to avoid this is to constantly trim the size of government by saying no to new regulations and laws. The only way to shirk bloody upheavals is to stop committees of the incompetent from ruling the ignorant.

Blogging is one of the few frontiers left to us. It doesn’t need to be regulated, because regulation is bad for the health of freedom, and freedom is being eroded enough elsewhere. If you want to blog without a nanny, as an adult, let people know that they should speak out against this foolishness.