Summary: "I don't want bureaucrats policing yard decorations but here's all the reasons yard decorations should be policed!"
I carry concealed. I think there are a lot of really good reasons to carry concealed. I advocate carrying concealed. It irritates me when people pull stupid stunts like open carry rifles into Applebees or struts into a Walmart with an AR right after someone shoots up a Walmart with an AR. People doing that are doing harm to the gun rights cause.
I absolutely don't want there to be laws against open carry.
I can think of dozens of things that I would caution others to avoid or work to convince others to do for their good, the good of their children, or the good of society - that I would absolutely not support legal intervention for. Is it really so foreign a concept that someone could believe something to be good or bad without simultaneously believing that the government intervene to force those beliefs on others?
It's an emotional argument, one based in subjective personal views. It's also patently illogical and inherently self-contradictory. She states she doesn't want something after spending a dozen paragraphs outlining why "it" would be a good idea. It's a perfect example of leftist "I Haz Feelz" ideological rationalization (We have to do it FOR THE CHILDREN!). I don't doubt for a moment that she would glom on to the first opportunity to see her ideals enforced on a more formal level.
As far as I could tell she advocated for an idea, not governmental enforcement. Sure, her argument was emotional, not like the calm, thoughtful rationality that would - for instance - label her a statist.
Brad, I don't think for a moment that you (or any of the other defenders of Halloween Freedom here) believe that everything you dislike (for good reasons, I'm sure!) should be prohibited by the government. Is it possible that someone else might ... just possibly ... have the same complexity?
The older I get the less use - and patience - I have for hand-wringing BS like this. There are considerations in this life far more important than your neighbor's choice of seasonal yard decoration. If "Karen's" life is so trouble-free that this is that's all she has to worry about, maybe she should shut the hell up and appreciate all the real problems she's not having to deal with.
These are much better points than attacking the statist strawman.