Remembering Arnulfo Crispin and Officer Scotty Richardson

[Straw Man]

20. No, about systems you THINK will work.

And I think you're wrong. You want to create a new bureaucracy rather than attempt to enforce the existing rules.

[div class = excerpt]How would you make what is essentially an unworkable system work just by demanding it? To use an analogy, that would be like the TSA making bomb and weapons screening for boarding a flight be on an honor basis.
No, it would be like requiring TSA screeners to do their jobs effectively or face termination and/or other penalties. Analogies are not your friend.

What makes you think your new bureaucracy would be any different/better? Because you would vest dictatorial authority in police agencies, allowing them to abrogate rights arbitrarily and without recourse? Anything less and you would be back to the status quo, with judicial review as paramount, as it should be. And you would expect me to pay for this with additional fees and to entertain additional intrusions on my privacy, I who have already been relentlessly screened by the authorities of my state and already comply with its laws and regulations? Because you believe that it would reduce gun crime, a belief I do not share. No thanks.

Yeah, it's fun to play "If I Were King of the World," but your proposals are seriously flawed. And spare us the "cry of widows, orphans, and now childless parents" -- they would still be there after you had enacted what you wish to enact. Then you would be looking for your next phase of "reasonable" control.

That's all I have to say. You may now return to your litany of crime reporting and high moral dudgeon.