It's who we are....
Laws were most numerous when the state was most corrupt.Imagine if the Romans had guns?
Tacitus
It was never intended to be that way. Just think of the thousands, if not millions of laws (and codified regulations) that could be done away with if the federal governments multiple overlapping power hungry agencies were simply done away with. Any usefulness the agencies might have had could be given to the states.
Things are really reversed. Legislatures go to DC (and state capitols) to see what they can do. It should be to see how little they can do. The single most important thing is balancing a budget. And that single most important thing simply never happens in today’s District Of Corruption.
That gun lock law is not a law, but tyrannical misuse of legislative powers enacted to benefit an UnAmerican ideology.
Everyone breaks at least three laws a day according to one law scholar I heard.