To regulate or not to regulate?

down home wrote:
Regulate, regulate the call of the Socialists and those who think everyone else cannot tie their won shoes because they ccan't.
People know if they need practice and suchand attend to it themselves.
No regulations needed.
One of those kind is now in charge of TWRA and you must have safe boating certificate if born after 89 to operate a boat over 85 hp and register even a canoe. Limits on the number or Bream when you can catch hundred at a time every day e of the year.
The reason I said that because he a Liberal thinks that regulation and expensive licenses and permits gives control and money for more Regulators.
No Regulations and no Regulators. People are smart enough in most part of the Country to figure out things and to tie their won shoes themselves.
We want a free society not a well not a well regulated and permitted and poorer society.

Ah, this explains why people don't use cell phones, read books/newspapers, and just in general not pay attention: because they know it's not a smart thing to do.

That sentence positively dripped with sarcasm.

Also the regulations for fishing, and hunting partially, mainly came about because people could not be trusted to self-regulate themselves, leading to over fishing, over hunting and scarcity of fish and game. A person may be smart, people are stupid. Why are passenger pigeons extinct when they used to darken the skies, bald eagles were endangered at one time, the list is pretty long.