When people do stupid things, the government disciplines them and introduces new laws and regulations ... like a parent to a 4 year old child.
I think you can always trust people to abuse and manipulate anything to their advantage ... even if it's not reasonable (i.e. act like idiots). That's why there are so many laws and regulations ...
What ticks me off is that it is usually only because of a handful of extreme, yet significant, examples that motivate the implementation of new laws and regulations. In other words, the whole country pays for the idiocy of the few.