If I didn't have this gun, the King of England could just walk in here any time he wants, and start shoving you around. Do you want that? Huh? Do you?

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/King-Co-requires-life-vests-for-swimmers-1432255.php

Well this makes sense. Obviously people could never be trusted to make their own decisions on whether or not they know how to swim. Also we should have laws requiring tooth brushing. I bet people in that state don't even brush their teeth every night. Lets assign police officers to go door to door and do teeth brushing inspections. In fact, better yet, lets just have the government monitor every actions of every person to make sure they never do anything silly or stupid. It will be like the truman show, only instead of watching for entertainment, government employees will watch to find actions that can be fined, and make money for the government by sending out fines to everyone. Or you know we could just agree to live in a country where the government doesn't have the right to tell you how to run your own life, but i guess people have gotten tired of that. After a few hundred years it gets old and people long for the good old days when the king could make you do anything he wanted to on whim, just because he was the king. Can't have a king today so we'll just have a committee that fulfills the same purpose.