No kickback protector, no guard to keep the chain on the sproket, no spikes to grab jumped chain, no clutch to prevent stuck chain from tearing the motor out of the housing....oh and the lack of bar oil.

If the dude can afford a grinder that big, he can afford a fuckin chainsaw. Cmon.

The simple answer is yes, but and additional answer (beyond the law of it) lays in the reasons they were needed in the first place. The only reason they existed was because of the Great Depression, it was one of the spending programs enacted by the government to try and enable Keynesian full employment (if the private sector can't employ everyone, then it is up to the government to do so). While the effects of this are disputed, the depression has long been over. Like all social programs though, once started it is impossible to stop, even if it has outlived what it was designed to do. This isn't normally a problem in the private sector, when people don't want sprokets (or Fords), they don't buy them. When a government program has outlived its intended purpose when do they ever go away? Example, since 1898, the US government has collected a 3 percent tax on all long distance phone calls to fund the Spanish-American War. The tax ended on June 30, 2006.

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