I mean this article is about an American court over turning an American law…so yes, we’re talking about American regulation.

And bad news for us, there is very little consumer protection out there. There is a lot of financial reason to not make horribly dangerous products (America is a pretty litigious nation), but I think you are drastically overestimating the amount of testing and protection that happens by any regulating body.

We can’t even keep illegal drugs from coming in on shipping containers using our normal ports, in what world is a regulatory body inspecting every piece of electronics and every lithium battery that comes into the country. It’s why so many knock offs and faulty devices have issues so often. Just browse Amazon or EBay (not even getting into Alibaba) for 15 minutes and you’ll find cheaply made, never inspected devices all over the place.

And that isn’t even getting into the stuff that is well built, but only if you follow the proper instructions, why do you think we have to have national wide campaigns every thanksgiving just to try and keep people from burning their houses down while deep frying a turkey?

Then there are the tons of hobbies and activities that are just dangerous, we don’t stop anyone from free climbing a mountain or jumping a gorge on a motorcycle, cause once again, it’s not the governments job to keep individuals safe from themselves, not really. The job of government is to keep society safe from individuals, to keep you safe from others, to stop them from interfering with your rights (and it’s debatable how much they even really do that sadly).

But as far as Uncle Sam is concerned, you want to try and slack line across a 100 foot fall, or make home made booze, or eat rare chicken (at home) that’s your choice.

Actually no. There’s no restriction on you doing any of that on your own or at home. Just like anyone can cook whatever they want in their house even if they don’t know how to properly handle food, there’s nothing stopping anyone from hopping on Amazon and grabbing an RC kit or buying a pressure cooker, etc. Common sense and personal responsibility are kind of a big part of individuality and independence. For hobbyists generally they’re not endangering the public, just themselves. Which is your god given right lol.

Funnily there are laws around some obviously dangerous things (like making bombs) but not others (like owning a muzzle loading cannon or flame thrower) generally don’t (IANAL, check your local laws).

I mean, some states do this already with driver licenses. It’s one of the things Trump is trying to block with his illegal executive order/ the SAVE Act.