Privacy Laws Should Be Viewed With Healthy Dose of Skepticism
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The problem with privacy laws is that people have a hard time agreeing on what should be kept private. It depends, all too often, on what ax you have to grind.
Gun advocates live in fear that their guns could be confiscated by an over-reaching federal government, so they devote their efforts to putting up impediments to tracking down owners, such as the creation of a federal registry of gun transactions. Other equally fervent champions of individual rights work just as hard to shield the identities of the mentally ill, lest stigma against such disorders hurt those afflicted in the pursuit of a normal life.
The concerns of both gun advocates and civil libertarians make preventing mass shootings such as the Newtown, Conn., massacre a formidable task. Both sides believe that their concerns should be paramount, and each side has very little tolerance for arguments opposing its own.
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