Comments on: Legislative bills named after child victims get A+ for emotion, F for effectiveness https://www.narsol.org/2025/01/legislative-bills-named-after-child-victims-get-a-for-emotion-f-for-effectiveness/ National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:50:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Patrick https://www.narsol.org/2025/01/legislative-bills-named-after-child-victims-get-a-for-emotion-f-for-effectiveness/#comment-45471 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:50:06 +0000 https://www.narsol.org/?p=97690#comment-45471 In reply to FactsShouldMatter.

@FactsShouldMatter
I don’t think I could’ve said that any better. That’s why I was saying one person messes it up for everyone. The fear and control that they want. That’s why I never understood why the registry was created. I mean if someone is on supervised release or probation, why do they have to go through extra steps. Sorry if I’m going off topic. I was given 8 years, with 20 years of supervised release. So I basically got 28 years and have to jump through hoops, work and live in certain places. Meanwhile, as I said before I watch people around me doing unlawful acts and I’m having to go through all of this. I’m sure we all did our time and we should be given a second time to live a normal life, period.

]]> By: FactsShouldMatter https://www.narsol.org/2025/01/legislative-bills-named-after-child-victims-get-a-for-emotion-f-for-effectiveness/#comment-45468 Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:07:55 +0000 https://www.narsol.org/?p=97690#comment-45468 > Creating laws based on rare, horrific crimes is bad and dangerous public policy. It uses a tragic, one-off situation and applies it to a group of people who have not done nor will do what was done. It creates “umbrellas laws,” punishing entire categories of individuals for the crimes of a scant handful. <

The thought-process of that very misguided reasoning is still with us today.

They did the SAME thing with Laken Riley (Med student killed in Georgia by immigrant). Now it's a witch hunt of mass deportations of any and all immigrants and undocumented individuals irregardless or criminal history. The always pounce and never let a tragedy go to waste. They capitalize on the far and outrage of the moment to advance their careers in an easy win playing voter's fear, racism and hate.

It's so easy to sell a "quick fix" by manipulating people's fears and emotions. That is why politicians continually employ this tried-and-true tactic for easy power grabs The phrase "never let a crisis go to waste" is an active component in their playbooks.

The worst part? It's NOT about safety. It's about expanding police powers, jobs and political influence.

]]> By: Patrick Hinson https://www.narsol.org/2025/01/legislative-bills-named-after-child-victims-get-a-for-emotion-f-for-effectiveness/#comment-45462 Sat, 01 Feb 2025 20:34:48 +0000 https://www.narsol.org/?p=97690#comment-45462 They’re not serious about helping anyone. It’s about money and making it hard for people to move on. RIP Audrii. I’m not saying what the man did was right, but saying one person is bad and the other isn’t because of the nature of the crime is stupid. We have drug dealers, murderers, extremely violent people and none of them have to register or deal with monitoring software, place where they can live. But you’re worried about someone downloading, walking near a school that’s going to work, etc. The person has already done their time and that should be it. Wasting more money for stupid acts that do nothing but fill the pockets of people that just want to sit down all day and say they work. One person messes it up for everyone, then it should be like that across the board for everyone if they want to do that. Also I think this was child neglect as well. Maybe they thought that he did his time or it was nothing, but you never leave your child with anyone, sex offender or not.

]]> By: KCA https://www.narsol.org/2025/01/legislative-bills-named-after-child-victims-get-a-for-emotion-f-for-effectiveness/#comment-45457 Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:45:43 +0000 https://www.narsol.org/?p=97690#comment-45457 If authorities were truly serious about preventing child sexual abuse/assault/contact, they would follow what is helping in Europe. Instead of wasting all of this money on sting operations, incarceration and registration, resources should be focused on advertising and directing people who have minor sexual attraction into safe, confidential, specific, effective MAP therapy before they offend. The attraction doesn’t go away, but people can learn to live with it, cope with it, find safe avenues for sexual gratification that don’t victimize children and thus prevent these child sexual offenses in the first place. Isn’t that what we all want? We’ll see.

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