Bam!

Nah. Time to reread, sodium is absolutely a viable tech now.

Except we do have that power. There’s reasonable national security risk, and your lack of understanding of the dynamics involved doesn’t make them nebulous to others.

In any case, if you don’t like it, vote with your life choices. If it’s not that important, well… …it’s not that important.

You’re thinking of laws in terms of obedience. Law is about agreed-upon structure (sometimes functional, often dysfunctional).

Enforcement is about obedience, and comes up when people don’t go along with the agreed-upon structure. When the structure is made poorly, enforcement has harmful consequences.

Examples:

• food stamps (law)
• no stealing (law)
• preventing theft or multiple-subscription to food stamps (enforcement)
• the wilderness act (law)
• suing the government for not following the wilderness act (enforcement)

Law and enforcement are closely linked, but definitely distinct.

They have the authority to create structure (pass laws) regarding foreign powers operating within the States. So they pass laws (create structure) that state the agreed-upon structure, and enable that structure to be enforced.