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Serious question: is there any publicly available place I can go and simply read all the laws? Obviously knowing the letter of the law won't let me know how to apply it in all situations, but I literally have no idea how to discover what laws I'm supposed to follow, besides asking a lawyer.

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The Cornell Law College has the entire US Code published on its website: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text

Neat, thanks! Curious though, where does Cornell get the source material / wording from? When something changes, how are they informed? Does the government keep a master copy somewhere?

They subscribe to the US government's gazette: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Register Each US state also has a corresponding gazette.

Cool, thanks!

You can see the government's version of the US Code at https://uscode.house.gov/. The Cornell version is more browsable.

The Office of the Law Revision Counsel is responsible for taking each individual Act of Congress and updating the USC appropriately.

In the UK we have http://www.legislation.gov.uk

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