I think the point it adds to the discourse, regardless of tone, is that your suggestion of outlawaing public recordings is very much at odds with the past twenty years or more of experience, where we've seen that public recordings of the misdeeds of those in power are often the only way that such abuses are recognized as happening. Outlawing the things that make that possible is one of the easiest ways to make sure that such behavior never gets punished, as evidenced by how many times we've seen that police "forget" to turn their body cameras on, or "lose" the footage.