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- canada@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
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I’m fine with eliminating mandatory minimums.
Too many stupid edge cases that need flexibility, it’s not like they were very long anyways.
One guy in my city caught a child porn charge for writing sex stories involving teenagers having sex with other teenagers. Yet you can find Game of Thrones books on the shelves in Chapters which include child rape.
A kid catching a child porn distribution charge for taking a picture of themselves and sending it to their boyfriend/girlfriend is also stupid, but if you’re under 18 it’s illegal and could be prosecuted based on the current laws.
I’m all for stopping actual child pornography, but that case made it clear that our laws around what is and isn’t child porn have some issues and likely need to be cleaned up.
It’s also generally understood that mandatory minimum sentences do nothing to stop actual offenders from offending. It’s just a hardened political stunt that nobody is comfortable arguing with
