Please Stop The Whining of The Bleeding Hearts

I am just sick and fed up of the increasingly long line of tragic and pathetic people who are paraded on our televisions and radios with some tragic story and who are used to promote a case that something or another should be banned, or a new law further curbing our ever diminishing freedoms should be enacted. 

“My child/husband/wife/dog/cat/hamster (strike out which does not apply) was run over by a drunk driver” is an example of their whining cry. Therefore, their so called logic dictates that all cars should only be driven at 30 mph anywhere, even on motorways (20 or 15 if past a school), and the sale of alcohol to anyone who has a car, or who even possesses a driving licence, should be stopped immediately. Why do people believe that an increasingly stringent set of ever growing rules, implemented and overseen by the thought police, will make our society totally safe? Another example of "shoot from the hip" law maiking was when some clearly deranged psychopath gunned down a class of school children. The reaction was to ban handguns for everybody – has this stopped gun crime, has it prevented anymore shootings? The knee jerk reaction of the imposition of yet more laws is not always the answer. 

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not a total anarchist and I do recognise that in a civilized society some rules must apply. I realise too they have to be policed; however we seem to have forgotten that, in the main, people are ultimately able to regulate their own lives within a set of broad guidelines which we all recognise are for the common good. Just because some poor unfortunate has suffered a tragic accident surely it does not mean that the rest of us have to suffer the restriction of our choice and liberty? 

When will this control freak of a government realise that all the weapons it has tried to use to socially engineer our society,  to a point where we are all good little drones who think what we are told, are far too crude to achieve their goals and should really be classed as ‘weapons of mass destruction’?