How did I get there you ask.I might, but that isn't really the point - there is that slippery slope you trot out so often. How does one get from poisoned water and earth and being protected from those things by the only - the only entity that is capable of doing so, to three point harnesses and crash helmets?
I'd be willing to bet that a person that lived in the 1950s and 60s is asking that very question, how in the hell did we get here.
Government chips away at our freedoms very slowly and patiently and it's always predicated on the fact they are there to protect us.
I'm not saying I want a lawless America but America would be better off with less laws.