I was thinking about this subject today. If the US has laws that prohibit legitimate encryption and other countries do not... Is it fair to suggest that we are

I was thinking about this subject today. If the US has laws that prohibit legitimate encryption and other countries do not... Is it fair to suggest that we are making ourselves easy targets to foreign nations who wish to practice privacy violations? I don’t think about encryption as a method to protect myself from the US government (only) but from any entity that is local or foreign. I think everyone should have the right to privacy. To me this is more important than the right to guns. And no not because I want to have illegal content, I just want to keep my information secure from people who don’t have a right to my privacy. What am I missing? Should we give up our rights because there are people who break the law? Aren’t they going to continue to break the law anyways? Including using encryption. This is like CAPTCHAs. Punishing the majority for the crimes of a very tiny minority. Is this really the only way to catch people who do illegal things or is this just the laziest way to do it?