I'd like to think what I am suggesting is American @ heart too jBear.

I view these matters as social engineering conditioning. Which would include other dubious practices adopted late in the 20th century like checkpoints fer drunken driving, or DARE programs. Both of which are either, demonstratably counterproductive or of little consequence. And yet what they have in common with your topic is a diminishing of the 4th Amendment. And you've every reason to be righteously indignant. The telling fact, as with forceable confiscation of legal firearms in the aftermath of Katrina, the nation is not outraged. That's what tells the America we love is in deep doodoo.

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