“nothing wrong with a government being able to notify the populace of an emergency”
The existing LOCAL systems work fine. What does FedGov bring to this?
Which emergency of ours in the last 80 years would have benefited from a national warning system?
Election night November 2008.
Interstate coordination. Single point of initiation is not a bad thing.
And as I noted, Congress has a Constitutional mandate to institute procedures for calling out all able-bodied citizens for national protection.
Which emergency of ours in the last 80 years would have benefited from a national warning system?
It's not past emergencies at issue, it's future ones.
Just because you never had a house burn down doesn't mean you get rid of the fire extinguishers.