You think it's unreasonable for the police to search backpacks of subway riders? So I guess you think it's unreasonable that someone might explode a backpack full of explosives in a subway car?
Gimme a break....
I do.
So I guess you think it's unreasonable that someone might explode a backpack full of explosives in a subway car?
That would be very unreasonable, and that person would be a hideous bastard. Perhaps border control (which is 100% sonsitutional) would all put eliminate that probability.
Gimme a break....
Consider yourself broken.
Someone might explode a backpack full of explosives in a Taxi above the subway station, which would have the same devistating effect. So people lose their privacy and the terrorists still create terror. I can play on these scenarios all day. Want to search all the taxis? Buses? Public buildings? Hell ,why stop with public buildings? Lets search cars going through the Lincoln Tunnel or over the Brooklyn Bridge. Where or when does the sense of security become fulfilled?
Yes. I often have a Glock in my backpack, one of the thousands of reasons I do not travel to communist occupied zones like NYC.
So I guess you think it's unreasonable that someone might explode a backpack full of explosives in a subway car?
I think this is likely to happen with or without random searches. We could likely stop numerous vicious crimes with warrantless weekly searches of homes but we don't and we shouldn't.
"You think it's unreasonable for the police to search backpacks of subway riders?"
Would you think it unreasonable to search every backpack of people walking down the sidewalk?
I'm not asking just rhetorically, I'm really curious, at what point do you think it is unreasonable?
And if you think it's okay to search everyone walking down the sidewalk, what about searching everyone's car, whenever they enter a metropolitan area?
After all, a car bomb will do more danger than a backpack bomb...
Ed