https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/03/one-crazy-incident-everyones-liberty-restricted/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:59:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/03/one-crazy-incident-everyones-liberty-restricted/comment-page-1/#comment-85536 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:59:55 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16488#comment-85536 I call this knee-jerk legislation, or legislation by anecdote. It’s what we get in a democracy. Nobody’s ever mature enough to just say, “well, maybe that was a freak thing, and no legislation is required.” Or sit down and look at long-term patterns, or lots of data. I’m almost tempted to say that should be a requirement before passing any law, but of course, if that’s the kind of thing we have to require, the problem is bigger than that fix.

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