Because there is a massive gulf between how the law is written and what people do. And Americans are very much not fond of an automated jackboot stepping into

Because there is a massive gulf between how the law is written and what people do. And Americans are very much not fond of an automated jackboot stepping into that gap. You are advocating for the authoritarian extremist stance on something that people simply don't care much about to a population that's fairly hostile to those kinds of authoritarian stances.