When laws are created, the previously legal actions of citizens are restricted. Therefore enacting new laws is very serious business.
One doesn't justify a law by saying that it's a good idea or that it might prevent crime or even that it might have prevented crime X or crime Y in the past.
One needs to point out an EXISTING crime PROBLEM (i.e. a statistically significant number of obviously negative ACTUAL incidents) that will be addressed/prevented/made prosecutable by the new law.
If that is not possible then the idea should be dropped.
Too many people have the idea that it's enough to say: "Hey, this seems like a good idea that might prevent crimes, give me a good reason why we shouldn't do it." That's backwards. The law should stem from an obvious existing crime problem or it shouldn't exist.
The person/entity proposing the new law has the onus to show how it will provide a significant benefit to the citizenry as a whole by using actual evidence. Somehow it's gotten turned around and people feel like it's ok to propose a law and then make the citizenry prove why the law should NOT be enacted.
One doesn't justify a law by saying that it's a good idea or that it might prevent crime or even that it might have prevented crime X or crime Y in the past.
One needs to point out an EXISTING crime PROBLEM (i.e. a statistically significant number of obviously negative ACTUAL incidents) that will be addressed/prevented/made prosecutable by the new law.
If that is not possible then the idea should be dropped.
Too many people have the idea that it's enough to say: "Hey, this seems like a good idea that might prevent crimes, give me a good reason why we shouldn't do it." That's backwards. The law should stem from an obvious existing crime problem or it shouldn't exist.
The person/entity proposing the new law has the onus to show how it will provide a significant benefit to the citizenry as a whole by using actual evidence. Somehow it's gotten turned around and people feel like it's ok to propose a law and then make the citizenry prove why the law should NOT be enacted.