Enjoyed reading this.
HELL NO the police shouldn't search without warrants. Probable cause is the easiest thing to invent. It's tantamount to saying "I felt like searching them."
The constitutional ammendments in question are not the problem in this instance. And although As an aside since it was mentioned, while I like to call myself a liberal here, one thing I disagree with the Dems is over wepons and guns. I know in other countries, you can't get guns, only the governements get them, and so yeah, violent crimes are down. Thats a fact.
And that will never happen in the United States of America. YOU try going up to Northern Michingan and telling those guys that they can't have guns anymore. What we really need is to enforce existing laws and make gun crimes more serious then drug crimes.
Anyway, this turned into how the Consititution can be changed. It won't be, and for that I am thankful. It keeps things like banning Gay Marriage away from Constitutional law. It forces law makers and citizenry to confront their issues without having knee jerk reactions with unintended consequences.