Legislating to the Lowest Common Denominator (pardon my language)

Today I had to send a copy of my driver's license to buy psuedoephedrine allergy medicine by mail order. How about you create a list of people who actually committed drug crimes, and make them jump through hoops to buy pseudoephedrine. Stop hassling honest, responsible, law-abiding citizens. Stop legislating to the lowest common denominator. Put the burden of stupidity on the stupid and leave the rest of us the hell out of it.

If existing laws don't encourage law-abiding behavior, it's because you aren't enforcing them or the penalty isn't severe enough or the law doesn't belong on the books. Forcing honest people to jump through hoops in a futile attempt to force dishonest people to be honest - it isn't working, it's a flawed idea, and I'm tired of being bullied because lawmakers don't understand that the criminals don't CARE what the law is. That's why they're criminals. Do you really think that meth heads won't break into pharmacies if you cut off their supply? Has this law solved the meth problem? Then why do I have to jump through hoops to get freakin' cold medicine?

People convicted of a DUI don't have to register their purchases on a Federal database to buy alcohol. Hell, when federal drug databases DO catch abuse, nothing happens. When we get an explosion of laws and regulations, authorities can't enforce them all, and it's only honest people who suffer - honest people waste time and effort and money trying to understand and comply with all the regulations dumped on them, while the crooks continue to rob, lie, cheat, and steal.

I would like to see a constitutional amendment that specifies that every proposed law or rule MUST include specific plans for funding AND enforcement for at least 10 years, with a requirement that all laws are evaluated for possible unintended consequences over a 10-year period, AND all laws not directly impacting the safety of citizens expire after 10 years unless it is renewed by lawmakers, and, lastly, only emergency legislation can come up for a vote before voters have had 60 days to evaluate proposed legislation and contact their legislators with input.

Why shouldn't we hold lawmakers to a high standard of legislative quality? Why shouldn't they jump through some hoops before they force us to jump through hoops?