So why aren't most laws about controlling or punishing criminals instead of interfering with law abiding citizens or worse, making law abiding citizens into criminals?
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
We have plenty of laws on the books "controlling or punishing criminals."
As for your question, if everyone followed basic rules of human decency in this country along the lines of Christian ethics and mores, there would be few, if any "laws on the books, a marginal number of lawyers, and few courts. Legislatures and Congress would have little to do and would probably be restricted to meeting ever 3-5 years to discuss whether any "tweaking" was necessary.
But that's now our reality .... I see that every day I travel down the toll road with frequent speed limit signs of 65 mph posted. Occasionally, I will see a "log jam" of vehicles ahead and think it's ANOTHER WRECK from "speeding," only to find out it is an LE patrol unit doing the speed limit. It's a lot worse just after a NASCAR OR INDY EVENT.