A blunderbuss full of pea gravel will get your attention. Not to mention how startled you’ll be if someone nails you with a 50cal smoothbore with electric ignition. A friend of mine accidentally shot himself in the foot with a roofing nailer, but most of the damage came from falling off the roof.
I witnessed some pretty creative “interpretation” of the Commercial Space Launch Act and its amendments during my years at FAA. Most of them were for the purpose of removing impediments to completely harmless activities which the law might have prevented. I was troubled, however, by the habit of the “worker bees” of literally rewriting the statute so that it gave us the mandate to “assure the safety of the public…” The statute doesn’t say that, but acting as if it did motivated well-intentioned, hard working people to obsessively try to “minimize risk” to an absurd degree, piling extra work on launch license applicants, lengthening the licensing period as more an more information requests came from us, and ultimately having either no effect on public safety, or in some cases actually endangering the public slightly.
The administrative state is fundamentally un-American, and must be demolished.
Particularly for ‘decisions’ that have criminal penalties, there should be NO deference. The non-delegation clause must be reinstated.
“Own a musket for home defense”
https://youtu.be/43NzlOx2pIs
A blunderbuss full of pea gravel will get your attention. Not to mention how startled you’ll be if someone nails you with a 50cal smoothbore with electric ignition. A friend of mine accidentally shot himself in the foot with a roofing nailer, but most of the damage came from falling off the roof.
I witnessed some pretty creative “interpretation” of the Commercial Space Launch Act and its amendments during my years at FAA. Most of them were for the purpose of removing impediments to completely harmless activities which the law might have prevented. I was troubled, however, by the habit of the “worker bees” of literally rewriting the statute so that it gave us the mandate to “assure the safety of the public…” The statute doesn’t say that, but acting as if it did motivated well-intentioned, hard working people to obsessively try to “minimize risk” to an absurd degree, piling extra work on launch license applicants, lengthening the licensing period as more an more information requests came from us, and ultimately having either no effect on public safety, or in some cases actually endangering the public slightly.
The administrative state is fundamentally un-American, and must be demolished.