Paradox

People often act in ways that responsible people view as irresponsible, leading to the perpetrators being responsible for crimes against innocent people. Those innocent people are typically not responsible for the circumstances or causes of the irresponsible act. Then, the government responds and  advances efforts to prevent a recurrence.  Those efforts seldom have any impact on those actually responsible for irresponsible acts, since laws have little or no control on irresponsible people.  However, the governmental actions often have freedom-limiting impacts on responsible, law-abiding people, upon whom the controls are not necessary, since the innocent are not responsible for the original irresponsible act. Therefore, in trying to hold the irresponsible responsible, the innocent are penalized not only by the event itself, but also by the response to it.

It all seems irresponsible.  Failure often results when one seeks to heal a disease merely by treating its symptoms - a malady that seems to infect most all politicians.