Because the innocent deserve better. And we, as a society, have failed them.

"I want to live in a world where you can go for a test drive with people interested in buying your truck without getting kidnapped.
I want to live in a world where a teenage girl can accept a ride from a friend’s father without winding up a captive for ten years.
I want to live in a world where you can send your children to kindergarten without worrying that they will be shot.
But we don’t live in such a world, because we are far more concerned with rights than we are with public safety."  
(read the whole article here)--- http://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/2013/05/public-safety-should-come-first/