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I’m not a proud fan of the nanny society’s limits on freedom, except whereas I am. That’s the dilemma for me, and for everyone. Reason storehouse recently ranked “the worst nanny cities in America” by dint of. assessing their laws regulating sex, tobacco, highly rectified spirit, guns, driving, drugs, playing for money and food. Whether these things are good, sorry or no individual’s business is clearly up to the beholder.

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The over against happens in conservative parts of the country. Nashville, Indianapolis, Memphis and Jacksonville go easy on tobacco further not upon pot. Houston and El Paso are tough without ceasing both smoking and marijuana, if it were not that cannon are some other matter.

Lax gun laws be in the ascendant in the South and Southwest, especially in Texas. The coasts tend to be stricter on guns and more relaxed end for end sex.

Like many, I’m for freedom up to a point. Smoking and drinking are fine with me

Reason takes issue with traffic cameras that have being communicated speeders and runners of red lights. Not I. The cameras don’t catch anything that a police officer placed at the corner wouldn’t.

The Washington, D.C., body of rules that barred residents from keeping guns in the home

It will revolt multiplied to learn that the “worst” nanny city is Chicago. Once a brawling town of taverns, Chicago now has many “dry” districts, and there’s a ban on serving alcohol at all-nude strip clubs. Until recently, Chicago restaurants couldn’t serve foie gras

Not surprisingly, the “freest” city is Las Vegas, followed by Miami and Denver. Vegas poses few restrictions on alcohol and may eventually legalize prostitution. Gambling is obviously no problem.

Some differences appear odd. Philadelphia is stern on alcohol and nearby Baltimore not at all. The Midwest cities of Cleveland, Columbus and Detroit all make to have existence in the middle of the pack for most vices, the exception being alcohol, where they’re quite strict.

Consistency would be appreciated. Indianapolis seems to have an issue with the low-stakes gambling that is tradition in some black neighborhoods, but not with the state-sponsored lottery, off-track betting and other legalized betting. Then in that place’s the Los Angeles law that forbids smoking in municipal parks except on city-owned golf courses.

San Francisco is downright welcoming for marijuana and lax on alcohol and sex. But it mandates the size of a pet’s water goblet and requires psychics to get a disorder.

Denver may be amidst the least restrictive, but there are moves afoot to curtail freedom, according to Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi. He cites proposals for a “hate hotline” that would allow people to “snitch” in succession neighbors from one to another a tasteless joke and legislation to regulate house sizes.

What do I esteem about that? Down with the bear malice to hotline, excepting regulate house sizes? Sounds like a great form.

fharrop@projo.com