[Pontiac]

'These people are serious. They really want my son to go away to jail for a sarcastic comment that he made,' Justin's father, Jack Carter, said.

Yes they are serious. They are seriously foolish.

Hasty law making makes for bad law. These laws are written in the wake of tragedy when law makers feel the pressure to do something to prevent future tragedies even though such laws have no chance of preventing future tragedy.

Such laws scoop up and punish the innocent much more often than they prevent real monsters from committing horrendous acts because real monsters typically live in the shadows were busy bodies like the Canadian woman never go.

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These laws are written in the wake of tragedy when law makers feel the pressure to do something to prevent future tragedies even though such laws have no chance of preventing future tragedy.

Point of order. These laws are written well in advance by people whose intent is the utter destruction of freedom. They sit quietly in filing cabinets or on hard drives, periodically getting reviewed and updated, waiting, just waiting for an excuse, a panicked legislature, a popular stampede to be inflicted on the country.

Do you really think a 1000+ page bill is written overnight?

The enemies of freedom spend decades sharping their long knives.

[USMCPOP]

Well said.

[BfloGuy]

These laws are written in the wake of tragedy when law makers feel the pressure to do something to prevent future tragedies look busy

That's how I'd have phrased it.