This has become a default reaction. A terrible event occurs. There are rafts of laws being violated or rules broken in the incident — but ... thou shalt pass laws. Especially laws that ipso facto impact only the law abiding and rule-following — and often disrupt their activities needlessly.
Like you, I did many things in my youth that could well have got me killed. That would have (presumably) been a terrible blow to my already beleaguered parents — but that was on ME and nobody else.
This has become a default reaction. A terrible event occurs. There are rafts of laws being violated or rules broken in the incident — but ... thou shalt pass laws. Especially laws that ipso facto impact only the law abiding and rule-following — and often disrupt their activities needlessly.
Like you, I did many things in my youth that could well have got me killed. That would have (presumably) been a terrible blow to my already beleaguered parents — but that was on ME and nobody else.