You're close to it about my objection which has 2 main reasons.

The first is that Americans have developed a hard time saying no. To anything or anybody. Putting a name and face to a bill, with the grieving families and friends there makes it too hard to legislators to vote no. Remember they don't have a secret ballot. So they can vote based on calm, calculated reasoning on the implications and be seen as unfeeling jerks, or they can go with the flow.

My other reason, is that we're starting to develop a cult of victimhood. Too much emphasis is placed on victims based on their victim status, not for how they lived. We used to build statues and name things for heroes, now we name them for folks based on the single achievement of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm not saying that they're unworthy of remembrance and memorialization, but it should be about who they are, how they lived, and what they did, not about how and why they died.