except that isn’t even true.
you need permits and safety checks to install stairs precisely because poorly built stairs increase accidents. fire codes absolutely talk about what kinds of chemicals you can keep in your house. and you can absolutely lose your insurance or be asked to pay more for having certain types of equipment, for failing to properly maintain your property or structure.
what it seems you’re really concerned about are rules and regulations impinging on your hobby. internally you appear to have created a cost benefit ratio of your own: lives lost vs. being asked to license, insure, and limit guns.
your metric seems to be that no changes are worth the lives they (might) save. it’s not a credible stance because obviously some changes will save lives ( and have been shown to. )
if that’s not how you feel, you might consider what changes you would support – and say things like “okay, not (a) but how about (b) because (x).”
we’re basically the only otherwise stable country with these problems. and it’s not credible to say we can’t apply lessons learned elsewhere and make them work here.
that’s my take anyway.
