People talk so much about gateway drugs...how about gateway acts of pedophilia? Just as people that promote using drugs are monitored, so should this be.
People talk about the “warning signs” concerning acts of violence like the VT shooter. What could have been done to stop it? How can laws be changed to avoid it in the future and protect us? How can the red flags be monitored to avoid these acts?
We do these things to protect ourselves...now we need to protect our children from being used as gateways to more severe and brutal forms of pedophilia.
NO, not all abnormal or scary to some behaviors should be monitored by law, but THIS sort of behavior should be and with the right laws, can be.
What do you do, issue a plethysmograph to every man entering the park? Plenty of people like to watch children play in the park, not all of them parents, grandparents, aunts or uncles. For the vast majority of them, there's nothing sexual about this, and no threat.
That is clearly not true of Jack McClellan, who has a severe mental disorder; but that alone is not a crime. And I don't see any sane way to make illegal to watch children in the wrong state of mind. It would be likemakingit illegal to take pictures of someone else's house because you might be a burglar casing the joint -- sure, but you might also be taking a picture to show your realtor the kind of house you want to look at, or your landscaper how you'd like your yard to look, or you might just be an architecture buff.