Originally Posted by Amnorix (Post 8672602)

I'm not at all certain what the reported rate trend is, but I really do doubt that child molesting is on the rise. What would be far more likely is that over the last 20 years or so, especially, people have come to se eit as the horrible crime it is and to report it. How many people knew and covered up for the priests that were molesting kids back in the 60s, 70s and 80s? How many covered up for family members out of shame?

Separate from reported rates is media coverage of the same. Because of the new age we live in, news is really national/international in scope much moreso than it was even 30 years ago. Back then national news was whatever was on the 30 minutes of the nightly news with Cronkite, etc. Otherwise, news was predominantly LOCAL.

Now, if some pedophile issue rears its head in Seattle, then it's going to be nationwide news within days, and talked about for days, until it's resolved, and people from Michigan to Maine will be more conscious about, and a little more nervous, as a result of an issue that really isn't going on anywhere near them (at least nto that specific issue).

The combination of increased reporting of incidents, plus changes in media/perception, make people feel less safe in a US that is increasingly safer. Violent crimes are dramatically DOWN over the last 30 years or so, but people don't really feel safer because a mass murderer 2,500 miles away gets much more extensive coverage now than it did then.

Originally Posted by Donger (Post 8672523)

I would imagine the same thing will happen here:

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Originally Posted by Radar Chief (Post 8672610)

Wow, you can see the guys hair fly when the gun goes off.

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC (Post 8672589)

When I saw this, I thought of GoFraud....

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Originally Posted by vailpass (Post 8672614)

dude

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC (Post 8672620)

Dude what?


He would be a likely canidate to do something that stupid...

Originally Posted by Kraus (Post 8672459)

The dad will walk.

Originally Posted by vailpass (Post 8672624)

Agreed on the stupid. But that type of act goes so far beyond stupid into criminally and mentally deranged that I wouldn't put that shit on anyone who didn't prove they had earned it.
Just me, just sayin'....

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC (Post 8672628)

Understand.

Originally Posted by R8ers (Post 8672567)

Don't you angry Republicans think he could have possibly been rehabilitated?

Originally Posted by R8ers (Post 8672567)

Don't you angry Republicans think he could have possibly been rehabilitated?

Originally Posted by fan4ever (Post 8672558)

I think one of the main reasons child molesting is on the rise is when these guys get caught and prosecuted they get to stay in protective custody; away from the rest of the prison populace. This guy won't have that opportunity.

Originally Posted by WhiteWhale (Post 8672654)

IT's on the rise because we don't put them in prison for life.

Look.. homosexuality isn't a choice. They're born that way.

So are pedophiles. You can't rehabilitate them. You just gotta get rid of them for the sake of every child they could come in contact with.