Originally Posted by jammies

I don't approve of these proposed confiscation laws, and I don't approve of them towing drunk driver's cars either. Better 99 criminals go free than 1 innocent man punished, or however the quote goes - except in our day, minor infractions are dealt with by summary punishment as if the police had dual roles as upholders of the law and vigilantes.

Designing laws to discourage behaviour outside the framework of the justice system is a bad idea no matter how dangerous the targeted behaviour is. Enforcing the law should never be based on how convenient it is for those in charge of enforcing it, but rather in ensuring that the rights of citizens are not abrogated by the state. A tyranny is just as suffocating if it is built one amendment at a time as by armed revolution.