This article was good.
Americans are shocked and terrified by the idea, I'm sure. “But they could be kidnaped.” That's kind of a car thing. When cars dominate the world, there are fewer people walking and cycling. Streets are empty except for drivers. There are fewer eyes on the street. With fewer eyes, fewer people together, it becomes more dangerous for vulnerable people.
Jane Jacobs wrote about that in like the 1960s. It's really infuriating how unsafe car-centered spaces is, and how people erroneously think it makes them safer.
You're much safer on a street busy with a mixed crowd of pedestrians.
But, again, racism can't have that.
It's the usual "there must be in groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out groups for the law to bind but not protect" thing as always.
They wanted small government when it suited their desires. Their desires, as conservatives, are usually bad. Pollution, exploration, segregation, etc.