[Rick Lee]

First we need a law banning all knee-jerk laws in response to some huge event. They are always short-sighted and fraught with unintended consequences. If the threat of capital punishment didn't deter Casey Anthony from killing her baby, I doubt some minor charge of failing to report a missing child within 24 hrs. would have done much to save Caylee. This is as stupid as Peter King's suggestion that no one be allowed to carry a gun with 1000 yds. of an elected official in the wake of the Tucson shooting.

Anyone who files a false report needs to go to jail. But I have to ask how much it really costs to mobilize a massive search, when most of the participants are salaried state employees who will get paid the same whether they're out looking for bodies or writing parking tickets.