>Murder is already illegal, yet we have many laws to control firearms, etc. Adding more laws to enforce when existing laws are not effectively enforced is good

>Murder is already illegal, yet we have many laws to control firearms, etc. Adding more laws to enforce when existing laws are not effectively enforced is good why? Law enforcement efforts aren't like processor cycles. We (society) accumulate capital overhead by growing the body of law, and make the law less useful. I would suggest law is like policy, and needs a lot more looking at second and third order effects, they way you would think when commenting on a RFC. There seems to be a lot of: we have to do something sentiment these days.