As many have already alluded to, this issue is just one part in a larger trend: certain people, being all-wise and all-good of course, have decided that they know what is the best for everyone. To paraphrase Stephen Coonts in Flight of the Intruder, these people have elevated the elimination of risk to a religion, and they are bent on banning anything that might create a problem. Never mind that it is often risk that makes life worthwhile, and eliminating it is impossible!
So... Every once in a while, a looney cuts someone with a knife, so knives must be banned. Brain-dead individuals, like Kellen Winslow, crash high-powered motorcycles because they are too stupid to learn the basics of riding before trying to stunt, so now "crotch-rockets" are under attack again. I don't like cigarettes, and I don't want to smell them when I am eating in a restaurant, but I am deeply disturbed by the current rabid movement to make all public institutions, even bars, smoke-free.
Where does it stop? What happened to personal responsibility and tolerance? What will be left of our freedom when we eliminate every possible thing that might be a risk? My God! America is rapidly becoming the home of the bound and the land of the cowardly!
Did someone say something about a soap box?
