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1 is only an issue because moral panic gave legislators a blank check to write DUI laws that are so immensely broad they would be opposed in any other context.

2 is only an issue because drugs were a moral panic and people hated weed enough to not argue much when it got tied to their gun rights

Everyone loses when we cater to lemmings going off half cocked about the moral panic of the minute.



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