[Know your rights]

your actions are much more likely to infringe the freedom of your neighbor than in unsettled or rural environments.

But government is still limited to defending freedoms ... whereas A CA Guy wants to prohibit restaurant owners from allowing smoking, although nobody has a "right" to go to any given restaurant, much less have it be smoke-free.

[Sam Cree]

Yes, I saw his reference to restaurants as public places. Funny, the time during which I owned an interest in one, I considered it private property.

Yep, the only true function of government is the preservation of liberty. "... that to secure those rights, governments are instituted among men...