re: Charges Dropped against Minnesota State HC on child porn

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But then, when you "loosen up", actual ped's can escape through loopholes.

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How? When you expand laws all you do is create new criminals. They don't catch more dangerous criminals. All they do is catch guys like this or more often than kids. Some 15 y/old text her boy friend a topless pic she is distributing kiddie porn.

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Why can't the toughness remain but the law enforcers use a little common sense?

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Because the law is a brunt instrument. What you are saying is LE should selectively decide who to prosecute. That's even more dangerous. You insert the common sense in the law. You can not give cops and DA's that kind of discretion. It's not like child porn was perviously legal, we've just expanded the definitions. Usually this happens when people are upset over some high profile case where laws were already broken but for some reason we think we need more. Trying to close to barn door after the horse is already out. Something terrible happened, so we have to do something.

Not kiddie porn obviously, but after the Columbine shootings, that was movement to pass tougher laws to stop this from happening again. Those kids where already breaking about 17 different laws. Think 1 or 2 or 15 more would have stopped them? No and you're new "tougher" laws on child porn are not stopping what was all ready illegal, it is however, getting innocent people in trouble.