Local resident frustrated by restrictive legislation

To the Editor:

I'm not sure whether the question is "what were they thinking" or "why can't our elected officials in Indianapolis (and Washington D.C for that matter) do simple mathematics"?

In elementary school, I was taught that two cups make a pint, two pints makes a quart, and four quarts makes a gallon, perhaps our elected representation learned something different.

I took a trip to the store today because I needed some acetone to do some cleaning while working with fiberglass resin. I found it quite odd that you can only purchase one container at a time as I figured the amount I would require with little wasted or stored at half of a gallon but the law seems to be that you can only purchase one container at a time, whether it be an eight ounce bottle that a lady would use as fingernail polish remover or a pint, quart, gallon, five-gallon bucket, or fifty-five gallon drum if you were using it as a solvent for some practical purpose. Who was the person that proposed that to become law ... and who was in the majority of our lawmakers who voted to make it law?

Fellow Hoosiers and fellow Americans, we have a problem and it's not the drugs, the druggies, or the criminals ... it's a lack of good sense in our lawmakers and an unwillingness on our part to take responsibility for our own actions and demand that everyone else do the same.

There's a story written about a man who turned water into wine, but no one was forced to drink. People have been getting high since before recorded history, but no one is forced to do so.

However, America has legislated to the extreme where a person cannot buy and use just about anything, the public is taxed to death to feed, house, and otherwise care for the "criminal" who did little other than put something into their own body or the "poor misguided fool" who is so wasted so much of the time they ignore their own needs.



Making laws that restrict everyone is not the solution, let those who are foolish suffer the consequences of their own actions. Take heed of the situation that abounds around us, the fact that if you stop one little item it is like sticking your finger in the hole in the dike that isn't going to stop the flood. At least the little Dutch boy wasn't neck deep when he stuck his finger in the dike!



Thank Heaven the lawmakers haven't realized that black powder (a fairly decent explosive) is fifteen percent charcoal or the backyard barbeque would be nothing more than a fond memory!



Leo L. Southworth,

Brazil