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Snipe, don't take this the wrong way, BUT... what makes:
"A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
so much more important than:
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"
???????
Just as a hypothetical: What if the truck driver was stopping to apologize, the cyclists accosted him and he happened to be well-versed in some form of self-defense (Say, Krav Maga), disarmed the cyclist and in the frenzy started attacking. When the popo showed up, the cyclists banded togethor, but an independant witness comes forward at trial for the defense. Then, by your standard, an innocent man would have been imprisoned until that trial, unjustly.
Believe it or not, our country was actually founded on the principle that it is better to let 100 guilty men go free than to unjustly imprison one innocent man.
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