"Wrote Nick Gillespie in the Daily Beast,
“Clearly something has gone horribly wrong when a man lies dead after being confronted for selling cigarettes to willing buyers.”
“Some politician put a tax of $5.85 on a pack of cigarettes, so they’ve driven cigarettes underground by making them so expensive.”
The problem is actually broader.
It’s not just cigarette tax laws that can lead to the death of those the police seek to arrest.
It’s every law.
Libertarians argue that we have far too many laws, and the Garner case offers evidence that they’re right.
I often tell my students that there will never be a perfect technology of law enforcement, and therefore it is unavoidable that there will be situations where police err on the side of too much violence rather than too little.
Better training won’t lead to perfection.
But fewer laws would mean fewer opportunities for official violence to get out of hand."
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