Reply #3: Understand your POV re:civil liberties, but it seems targeted at known members of gangs who have [View All]

a pattern of committing violent crimes... for the sake of argument, how is this less palatable to you than an injunction against a pedophile that prevents him from going anywhere near a schoolyard, or associating with minors?

I think it's overbroad to prevent them from associating, but if they are found associating, checking them for weapons seems like an unfortunate but 'valid state's interest' type of preventive action. I question whether, if they are found with an unlicensed weapon, or with drugs, they could be prosecuted criminally, though, since presumably the criminal search and seizure requirements hadn't been met. Probably just confiscated.

IMO a rash of drive-by shootings requires extreme measures, so many kids are killed just by being bystanders... as long as people's constitutional rights are somehow preserved... this article doesn't give enough info on that.