“Pre-Crime Fishing Expeditions” =
noticing a weaving car and pulling them over BEFORE they hit someone
noticing a passed out drunk in charge of a little kid and removing the kid BEFORE he is damaged by child neglect
noticing a man threatening to kill an official and arresting him BEFORE he does it
noticing a company letting rats climb all over their canned tomatoes and shutting them down BEFORE anyone gets the plague
noticing that a person has an unfenced swimming pool in the front yard and forcing them to fence it BEFORE some kid drowns
etc.
I am not promoting the idea of citizens being randomly pulled over and searched for pot, or any other thing. Nor having their homes invaded or searched.
But yes we do have preventative laws, of course we want them within reason, that is where the hard work and thinking and cooperation comes in. It is not easy but as I asked before what is the alternative? Much worse.
“It is not easy but as I asked before what is the alternative? Much worse.”
We didn’t used to have most of these “preventative laws” for most of this nation’s history for very good reason. The nation was much more free and I’d say that’s much BETTER. Freedom from constant government harassment is worth the cost of all those supposedly “prevented” crimes and stupid people hurting themselves.
You used to be able drink while driving and nobody cared unless you actually broke traffic laws. IF you swerved, etc you were pulled over and cited. But simply having a beer in your hand did not equal a jail-able crime
If you didn’t wear a seatbelt, you were taking your own personal risk and nobody harassed you over it (or took you to jail for it when you couldn’t afford the fines)
You used to be able to blow anything up on your property and buy dynamite by the ton. And nobody cared unless you ACTUALLY harmed someone. Now you can’t buy a little fire cracker in many places!
You could buy a machine gun for whatever reason you wanted and nobody cared unless you ACTUALLY hurt someone
And you used to be able to buy any drug known to man at the local store. No questions, no government database, etc. And nobody bothered you unless you ACTUALLY hurt someone.
The tiny handful of idiots or people that abused their freedoms is no excuse for taking them away from the MILLIONS that didn’t hurt anyone while responsibly exercising them.
Bring back personal Freedom and Natural Selection! I’m absolutely SICK of what this nation is becoming- a PC nanny/police state of wimps afraid of anything with a little danger. Live a little! Take some risks and face the consequences!
Seems like people in modern society are so isolated from death, they think they’ll live forever and pointlessly try to legislate this illusion of “safety”...