I hope you’re right.
My concern is that people who are evil, along with people who are stupid and people who are well-meaning but don’t see the big picture, pass bad laws.
The way it seems to happen is that there is a case where someone has done something that everybody thinks is horrible, but there is some sort of loophole or something that allowed it, so there is a rush to “do something about this” and they pass a law that criminalizes something related to that person’s action without stopping to consider the broader consequences.
Example: A man molests and murders a child. Everyone agrees this is horrible. But in the emotional rush to do something, they make some non-criminal aspect of what he did illegal and that new law has cascading effects on all of us. What if he contacted the kid on FR, so they try to shut down FR? Or something similar.
Happens all the time. I guess I'm just of a mind that there are red lines, see prohibition, and the public is not going to tolerate much further general disarmament.
I do agree though, the government is truly and honestly the enemy of free people. Of course the government will plead the opposite, that it is necessary, helpful, and we shoudl submit to it because if we don't it will kill us.
Molon Labe.