I think he is entitled to his opinions about tattoos, but I think his main point there is "here is something I think is a bad idea. Isn't it a good thing that I can't ban it?"

My major issue with the burqua is --I'm okay with someone *choosing* to wear it, because it makes her feel holy or whatever. I'm emphatically not okay with someone being threatened or pressured in some way to force her to wear it. I agree we need safeguards against that, but aside from laws against domestic violence (and taking it seriously as being "crime" rather than "women's issue") and resources to make it easier for women in bad situations to escape, I don't see what we can reasonably do without intruding unacceptably on people's private lives.