legislation succeeds - not on Jan5 2008

by gjman | Print the article |

Well, the lawmakers have our best interests at heart (sometimes, coincidentally) but as usual the shotgun approach to our legal patchwork quilt inconveniences only we, the ‘victims,’ while the ‘crooks’ carry on merrily.

Gun control laws are a great example. We all know criminals do not register their guns. Nor to graffiti vandals buy their spray cans. Some appear to be fond, recently, of large marker pens, or similar. What now? Put the Textas on newsagents’ shelves 2m above the floor?

Mindless scribbling has increased in the past year since these miracle laws made buying spray cans yet another of life’s little irritations.

Thanks for nothing, panic legislators.

The Author gjman is bemused admirer of commissioned and uninvited street art that flouresces and fades around Newcastle
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