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"We're bringing this not to scare you, but to inform you,"

Translation; Get over it! These people have to get on with their lives. Besides... they take up too many prison cells. We only have so many you know.

Excuse me ,are you married? Do you have children? "These people " can get on with their lives on an island in the middle of the Pacific. It would be a much more suitable place. They give up ALL rights when they committ their crimes." These People" can't be rehabilitated. They don't recover. It isn't the flu.Herd em up amd ship em out!

"We're bringing this not to scare you, but to inform you," said Stephen King, a community notification coordinator with the state Department of Corrections.

Yo Steve - when making comments to the press like these, consider using an alias. :)

In my Minnesota town, we had a sex crime spree a short while back. I went to the 'informational meeting' and listened to the LEO's say nothing of any real importance. The purpose was to demonstrate some sort of public contact, minimize information distribution that impinged on their investigation, and offer the neutered and submissive suggestions that the left constantly pushes as advice for victims in the face of mayhem by their coddled criminal revolutionary vanguards. The political cop's advice: Lock your doors and windows and call the police if you see anything suspicious. Fair enough, but hardly revelational, or helpful, should the criminal strike again.

What they studiously avoided was mention or discussion of the Minnesota Personal Protection Act, or MPPA, that is the Minnesota version of concealed carry reform. The cheify didn't like to speak about that option - nosireebob!

I'm not saying that had this woman been licensed it would have saved her life (and hopefully, she's still alive), I'm just saying that it definitely gives the selected crime victim another chance. If the gun isn't there, the victim has one less advantage to defend herself. In this case, instead of crying out "Oh my God!" and dropping the phone, it could very easily been the report of lifesaving gunshots that followed the exclaimation.

Of course, the low-life scum sucking Red Star would never suggested that. If that HAD been the course of events in this case, the Red Star would have been loath to even report the incident.

In reply to everything I have read so far about what you have to say, I completely agree. I grew up in a small Minnesota town myself, where no one really heard of anything like "sex offenders" until I came into the picture.
I was a victim when I was very young, some say that I was too young to remember any of it, but trust me I still have nightmares about it.
But what I wanted to say about it all was that yeah these people are taking about space in our prisons and they should ahve a second chance whatever, but in my case, he was given his second chance, third chance, whatever. He's a repeat offender and after Dru Sjodin disappeared and everything, he was released, but as soon as they found her, he was back in. Now he wasn't the one to kidnap her, but he was one of the offenders who is being looked at for a life sentence for what he has done.
He has ruined more lives than one, and needs to pay for it all. I just want the word out saying that in order to keep our families safe, and our community safe, I don't care if they go to therapy for thirty years, they will never change, but we can. We can change the way they are looked at. They may be people too, but they are the lowest out there.
And speaking from a victims point of view, when he was released, he lived no more than 20 miles from me.....You seriously think that makes me or any of the people I was warning feel safe?!

"...you have a right to get a [concealed] gun permit. . . . if you know how [to use a gun] and you have a situation with some fruitcake running around, like they've got right now, it sure can save you a lot of grief."

- Former LA Gov. Mike Foster during the Baton Rouge serial killer hunt