How about the old laws are removed before new ones are added? If every knee-jerk law is kept on the books we end up with, well, what we have now and it isn't working.<p>IMO:<p><pre><code> 1. Remove all the knee-jerk laws from 9/11
2. Come back and ask again</code></pre>
The police had the information and ignored it because no one takes white, right wing, terrorism seriously. You can't fix that with more data. At best it's a side show to excuse police being unwilling to do their jobs. At worst, it's all of that plus a cynical power grab. Either way, we shouldn't accept it.