I agree. I also don’t have much of an idea on how to accomplish it. However, it has always bothered me how some lawyers talk about the law. Here’s an example of someone getting away with stealing because (at least from what I understand) of how our legal system is constructed:
McBoyle v. United States - Wikipedia.
From the wikipedia article above:
McBoyle v. United States , 283 U.S. 25 (1931), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding whether the theft of an airplane was illegal under federal law, given that the law only criminalized theft of a “vehicle.”
McBoyle was accused of violating the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act on the premise that the plane was a type of “vehicle” covered by the act.[1][2] The petitioners claimed that since the act did not specifically mention aircraft, it should not apply to this case. Furthermore, Congress likely did not intend to criminalize the theft of aircraft when the law was passed, since airplanes barely existed at the time.[3]
The court held that, since other acts – such as the Tariff Act of 1930[4] – specifically excluded aircraft in its definition of a vehicle, the law must be interpreted narrowly. Justice Holmes stated:
Its the second thing I quoted that really bothers me. So Congress has to explicitly criminalize specific things that can’t be stolen.