Originally Posted by MrCjolsen
But that has always been the case. You don't think that you had violent sex offenders in your neighborhood when you were growing up? The only thing that has changed is that now we know where they are. That actually makes it safer, in my opinion.
Of course we did. But like you said, we didn't know where they were, and how many, etc. So it might in fact be safer now that we know, like you said, if indeed these kinds of crimes have not increased. If you know where snakes live, you are safer.
But if we did know back then what we know today, would we have been as careless about where our kids went?
A very young boy in Atlanta recently went missing. Not long after, they discovered his body. Some older pedophiles, convicted sex offenders, had abused, then killed him.
It still happens, even if these people are required to be registered.