You removed the 'at any cost' fragment from the sentence, which I think basically describes what you're saying. I think it's about the tinkering occuring at al

You removed the 'at any cost' fragment from the sentence, which I think basically describes what you're saying. I think it's about the tinkering occuring at all - basically, people are giving the government authority to fix problems which don't exist to begin with, or have minimal impact - and those fixes have negative side effects. It's like re-writing a piece of software entirely to fix a radio button that doesn't work. Even if it's the only possible way to fix the radio button, is that really a good idea? Can't we just live without the radio button? A more fleshed out example: I could, tomorrow, drop a glass whilst retrieving it from an overhead cupboard, and blind myself when it smashes over my head. Something like that. If I were worried about it, I could fix that particular situation by not storing glasses above my head. What I wouldn't do, is go and remove every instance of glass or ceramic from my house. That's what I often feel like these situations are coming down to. Someone gets shot in a school, and rather than looking at that problem, we go insane and look at 'how do guns get into the country at all' or 'how can other people end up with different thought patterns to me' or something utterly bonkers.