Good Question

In a post titled Regulatory Despotism at NRO's The Corner, Mark Steyn poses a very good question. At the end of an anecdote about Quebecer Pierre Lemieux and his refusal to answer nosy personal questions on his gun permit renewal, Mark asks this:

"The remorseless, incremental annexation of 'individual existence' by technologically all-pervasive micro-regulation is a profound threat to free peoples. But do we have the will to resist it?"

Good question – and one to which I believe we'll all know the answer pretty soon.