[OneWingedShark]

Sometimes I think there ought to be a “duty to engage and destroy.”

There is, as per the Declaration of Independence:
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

And unless you want to argue that the US Code isn't [valid] law you shouldn't claim that the Declaration of Independence isn't law.

[GenXteacher]

Nope- wouldn’t argue with that at all. But I would point out that the Declaration of Independence is talking about engaging and destroying the government- it doesn’t say anything about small-time criminals.....