Story from the “home” country , I’m still between nations at present , some kind of peripatetic internal exile, though I likely will change that soon. One of the shocks that I experienced after moving to the states can be described with a lyric from Soul Asylum “Trying to do the right thing play it straight the right thing changes from state to state” Just trying to buy alcohol was restricted by some of the strangest laws ,that not only depended on the location , but the time and date. County by County, some places sold both beer and real alcohol, some just the latter, the rules changed to the point where I was glad to move to California after three years in Georgia ( I was even happier to move to AZ )
Anyway I’m sure they had the “best ” intentions in deciding that I would drink more responsibly if I bought them in two stores rather than one. I’m sure the people in the UK that opposed the lifting of 11pm most nights as the last orders ( for public houses, private clubs have other rules) had those interests in mind when the spent the publics money trying to prevent adults from deciding when and where they drink. Than again they has aleady spent a lot of the money earned from the taxation, licencing and outright appeals to greed ( lottery) to convince people that England is a country that one could enjoy while sober.
So not only did the conventional wisdom not occur, e.g people drunk 24-7 causing fights and accidents, but the inverse a 20% annual reduction in violent crime relating to drink. Are they refunding the cash? er no.
A similar situation occured in AZ 10 years past We were sold back our right to carry concealed weapons. Oddly the same mindset prevailed in here where “professional” commentators let lose with a vision of streets awash with blood and people casually using guns as hammers, bottle openers and bullets as toothpicks failed to materialise. These same people are still at, but now they have made some friends. And I mean manufactured. Whether it’s by fortuitous happenstance or Machavellian planning 
is that the people you would think are in favour of the Second amendment are more in favour of a second income. What happens is when you create a privileged class (interesting eytmology on that word) , which in this case is the instructors teaching the course required to buy your rights back. Anyone want to hazard a guess which way the majority of these lean when the need for these courses appear:D
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