Originally Posted by
SgtScott31
Let's just release all of it and let the criminals travel abroad as fast as they can on aircraft without any fear of getting caught with their tools. Rapists, pornographers, drug smuggling murderers, what's the big deal? As long as you can get to your vacationing spot in Florida without being "harassed," it doesn't matter now does it?
You just made an argument for putting checkpoints at every street corner, allowing random police searches of homes, throwing out the 4th Amendment completely, etc. The founders knew better than to allow that, because the perceived gain in security/safety wasn't worth the loss of liberty. It's disturbing that many if not most of our law-enforcement community doesn't understand that.
Rewording what you just said (replace aircraft with "foot"):
Let's just release all of it and let the criminals travel abroad as fast as they can on foot without any fear of getting caught with their tools. Rapists, pornographers, drug smuggling murderers, what's the big deal?
Are you happy to have the government set up a checkpoint at your front door? I'm not.