There are no semantic oddities. It's just that "regulation" is context dependent, even in everyday English.
When people scream "oh no regulation," they mean "no rights-violating/improper laws," but there are other cases where "regulation" just means "laws."
It's not as if Rand claimed to be "against regulation" and left it as that, which would be pointless and sloppy.
In talking about politics, as elsewhere, she was extremely precise: the point of the government is to protect the individual from the initiation of force.
Force is also well-defined in her work, and it includes poisoning someone.
When people scream "oh no regulation," they mean "no rights-violating/improper laws," but there are other cases where "regulation" just means "laws."
It's not as if Rand claimed to be "against regulation" and left it as that, which would be pointless and sloppy.
In talking about politics, as elsewhere, she was extremely precise: the point of the government is to protect the individual from the initiation of force.
Force is also well-defined in her work, and it includes poisoning someone.