Why?
Too many absolutely total official and regular morons in America actually believe that 2000-3000 victims a year is a small price to pay for "political correctness."
I suggest we keep a list of who those morons are. Tha't all I'm willing to say.
The act was signed into law by President Carter in 1978.
Any big surprises here?
The action of these individuals, judged by subsequent developments and the blood od thousands of real victims, speaks to the poverty of ideas, reason, sense of proportion of all those individuals.
The ones who are dead, good riddance.
The ones who are still alive should be stripped of their jobs and pensions, and be prohibited ever from holding office at any level.
Hell, I would think life terms for stupidity would not be inappropriate.
Again: "We meant well" is not an acceptable excuse for consummate stupidity, at the continuing cost of thousands of lives and millions of serious inconveniences.
One last note:
I see red when, in researching this truly incompetent law, all subsequent official government analyses and reports deliberately go out of their way NOT to list any the names above.
It took me a long time to find those names.