Hey Terry, I'm not a ST fan either. I could never embrace the kumbaya, commie society even before I got political. I was just responding to the whole "arrg these plot holes that the transporter caused!! Bad Writing!!"
No, the writers adressed it, mostly in TOS. The show is internally consistent on the use of transporters as a weapon. They generally don't work like that as a matter of design, or countermeasures, that are addressed in the shows lore.
Unlike, say, using a ship jumping to lightspeed as a kinetic kill......