Chronicly Chronologically wrong

Ben, if you're going to argue that the government bears responsibility for such accidents then you're getting the issue seriously out of order.

These rules have only come into being as a means to protect the government's money from goons like that, who think that because the government hasn't told them that shooting themselves in the face with a shotgun could be fatal they can hold the government responsible. In addition to this, the courts reprehensible decisions to agree to such suits has lead to an overly litigious society thus pushing up indemnity premiums thus requiring more legislation to cover the various party's arses.

It is because of people failing to take responsibility for their own actions, particularly the stupid ones, that the government has to intervene. Your crusade against the "nanny state", which you've been on about for quite some time, seems to be based on the notion that a government trying to stop stupid and dangerous behaviour in makes them more responsible. It is this way of thinking that trains people in being ingnorant of the consequences of their actions, not the legislation.