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The shooting in Colorado has brought a new level of anger. This man lined the students up, picked out the girls he would like as though it were a grocery list, molested these 6 girls, and knowing what his fate would be he took a cowards way out and committed suicide and took one young girl's life in the process. How can it be, when we claim to live in the most civilized and just era, that a man would ever consider harming children in the way in which he has. This is, by far, the cruelest form of abuse a person could do to anyone. These girls are always going to carry the fear and shame that he has bestowed upon them and for what? His perverted sense of pleasure? What man get’s joy from molesting a child, and yes, 16 is still very much a child. While this is not a crime that is new to humanity, it is one that by all means should be extinct in a civilization that is suppose to be enlighten. More and more stories come pouring in of girls being kidnaped, molested and the murdered as though they were rag dolls being tossed aside. While the mind of these man cannot me changed by us, the laws can. Why is it, that a heroin addict gets longer prison time that a child molester who harms no one but himself? How is it that a child molester could ever be paroled and released? A man that is capable of harming a child in this manner is not someone that can be reformed. If you are sick enough to even imagine doing what they have done, then you are someone that should not ever return to our society. The registry is a joke. Half of all molesters do not register and are then "lost" in the system. Even when a molester registers, how is that to keep him from molesting again? John Couey was a registered offender. I may be southern, I may be cruel and not enlightened to modern ideas of compassion and reform but I do not believe prisoners should have any rights at all. American’s rights are covered under the constitution, and laws were enacted to protect those rights. Look at it, if you will, as a contract. Our contract should state, in agreement to payment (our rights) you agree to follow set terms (the laws). Therefor, if you breach said contract by committing a crime, then you should no longer have those rights. Therefor, things such as the recent claim that lethal injection is cruel and unusual should not matter because you no longer are protected under those rights. On that note, how is lethal injection cruel and unusual while raping and fatally beating 17 year old Terri Whincell is not? Children are our obligation to protect as they cannot protect themselves. For us, as a society, to allow this to continue to happen means we are failing in our task. Every child needs to be fully educated in knowing how to protect themselves and know what to look for. Every child needs to be watched and never left alone in a store, allowed to walk alone to a friend’s house or left with a man that could possibly abuse them. While every rape cannot be prevented, every offender can be stopped from committing again. They should have no leniency as they have none for their victims.