Let's see if you can cite a couple of examples of where any freedoms of any group of people were protected by denying/rescinding those same freedoms to individuals outside the group. From posts over the weeks that this topic has dominated the discussion group, I must admit that my position is shared by a disturbingly small minority of folks that post here, but that's my 2 cents. Making regulations to control others as a preemptive measure against regulation of a select few is distasteful to me, but if I ignore that bias and attempt to rationalize it on objective grounds only it still fails based on historical evidence.