Originally Posted by
BlackPeter
When did you move into the Trump camp? Lock them up and throw the key away ... sounds like a pretty stupid strategy which doesn't work anywhere in the world. Trump land has one of the highest murder rates in the civilized world despite locking up (or even killing) offenders as well as wrongly accused innocent people for longer than anybody else. Locking up more people does not fix their murder rate, it makes it worse.
You want to turn NZ into a mini Trump land? No - thanks. Enough idiot nations around, we don't need to be as dumb as they are.
Child abuse is a complex problem and driven by issues like poverty, substance abuse, by abusers having been previously the victim as child him/herself, by mental illness but as well by our legislation implementing brain dead so called progressive ideas (anti slapping bill) basically forbidding any disciplining of children. I guess at some stage some of the suffering parents are just exploding.
Simple solutions like lock the offenders up don't work, I am afraid. Sorry to learn you turned a populist.