Regarding these new laws aimed at convicted "sex offenders".
Specifically the ones that are prohibiting them from living within so many
feet of a school, day care, playground, etc.
I see the point that it helps protect kids.
And I see the point that it makes it virtually impossible for the convicted to survive.
But you guys are failing to see something that is even worse, as far as I'm concerned.
Consider how many of these sex offenders were convicted several years ago,
for something relatively minor.
Think of a big drunken frat party, and you grabbed a girls boobs.
What would you be accused of? Assault, battery, a "sex offense"?
Who knows.
Probably wouldn't have mattered much if none of it involved jail time.
Someone could EASILY have pled guilty to a petty sex offense to avoid a more expensive
and long/drawn out trial, where there might have possibly been jail time.
MANY people plead to things just to avoid the possibility of jail time.
How many of these people would have reconsidered their plea agreement if there was
ever a chance that 30 years later, this kind of shit could happen to them.
As far as I'm concerned, if these rules weren't on the books when the person was convicted,
then the rules don't apply to him.
I know a few guys who were arrested for battery because they got into a fight at a bar.
I'm sure a lot of you do to. Hell, some of you might have a similar conviction on your record.
How would you feel if 20 years after the fact, the law decides that fighting indicates
an agressive disposition, and therefore you don't need to possess weapons.
Are you going to hand them over with a smile on your face?
Seriously, what is the difference?