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My dude. Why do you think that laws are written, exactly? Do you think people pull them out of their ass for no reason at all? Or are they just maybe intended to deal with changing issues, whether or not you approve of the law?
Have you ever looked up something along the lines of, "stupid laws in the U.S." or "stupid laws state by state"?
You'll be surprised.
Stupid laws almost always had a reason at one time. The reason might not have been good, but it still existed.
I'm aware of one place out in the middle of fucking nowhere, South Carolina, that has a noise ordinance after 11pm. It has a noise ordinance because there's a very large gun range--several hundred acres--that has occasional night matches. Well, someone that was politically connected moved close to the range, and got pissed that about once a month there was shooting all night. So they got their buddies on the county commissioners to pass an ordinance that said no noise after 11pm. Now those night matches shut down at 11pm on the dot, because the cops are ready and waiting to issue citations to the range owner. In 100 years--if humans are still in existence as a species--no one is going to remember why there's a dumb law on the books about noise after dark in ass-fuck SC.