I reckon you are bang on the mark there Savage1. The current laws that everyone is trying to work around were largely the result of the politicians knee jerk reaction of the time to one incident. The main aim, it seemed to me at the time, was to try make the politicians look good rather than put the funds where they should be, ... namely better resourcing the police to deal with the real issues.
It is not a simple problem. As in everything there is no black and white, there are huge grey areas.
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