Reply #6: It's an extremely safe political platform. [View All]

No one is going to argue that our children should be less safe, so the politicians and the hucksters conjur up a gin-u-wine pandemic to get the masses all worked up into a lather by focusing on something that, while vile, doesn't have a huge impact on the numbers.

For example, I'm sure more children have been harmed by lack of healthcare, or domestic violence, or poverty than by child pornography. That is not to denigrate it's victims, but only to say that the discussion is sorely lacking perspective. For instance, the majority of children who go missing in this country are either runaway/throwaway children, or are abducted by a relative - rarely a stranger. And yet the majority of noise is made about stranger-danger type abductions, even though statistically they do not represent as much of a real threat as other kinds do.