Lew: Of course, such efforts have absolutely nothing to do with safety – other than for the proponents using that excuse. The purpose of such prohibitions is to deprive individuals of any form of power in their lives. Even July 4th fireworks provide too much of a temptation to people to believe that they might be entitled to exercise even the slightest degree of power; a force that the statists insist upon monopolizing.

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