You removed the &#x27;at any cost&#x27; fragment from the sentence, which I think basically describes what you&#x27;re saying.<p>I think it&#x27;s about the tinkering occuring at all - basically, people are giving the government authority to fix problems which don&#x27;t exist to begin with, or have minimal impact - and those fixes have negative side effects.<p>It&#x27;s like re-writing a piece of software entirely to fix a radio button that doesn&#x27;t work. Even if it&#x27;s the only possible way to fix the radio button, is that really a good idea? Can&#x27;t we just live without the radio button?<p>A more fleshed out example:<p>I could, tomorrow, drop a glass whilst retrieving it from an overhead cupboard, and blind myself when it smashes over my head. Something like that.<p>If I were worried about it, I could fix that particular situation by not storing glasses above my head.<p>What I wouldn&#x27;t do, is go and remove every instance of glass or ceramic from my house.<p>That&#x27;s what I often feel like these situations are coming down to. Someone gets shot in a school, and rather than looking at that problem, we go insane and look at &#x27;how do guns get into the country at all&#x27; or &#x27;how can other people end up with different thought patterns to me&#x27; or something utterly bonkers.