TX: Proposed Kyle sex offender law has supporters and opponents
Finally a balanced article! This one features our friend, Mary Sue, from Texas Voices for Reason and Justice.
Kyle City Council will consider passing a new ordinance which would restrict where some individuals on the Texas sex offender registry can reside, regardless of whether or not the offender is on probation or parole.
Mary Sue Molnar, chair of nonprofit advocacy group Texas Voices, said the registry is ineffective and hurts community safety. She said residency restrictions such as Kyle’s proposed ordinance are increasingly common, but create their own issues.“It’s displacing a lot of people—people that can really reintegrate and reenter society in a good way,” Molnar said. “We’re just shutting doors on them, just shutting every door we can, which seems like the opposite of what we should be doing.”
Among the key findings in the Department of Justice’s report, “Sex Offender Residency Restrictions: How Mapping Can Inform Policy,” residency restrictions were found to make it difficult or impossible for sex offenders to find housing.
The report states this can lead to sex offenders becoming homeless, which then leads to them becoming more difficult to track and monitor.
The National Institute of Justice also states, “while these laws are popular, there has been very little evidence of their effectiveness in reducing crime.”
These ordinances are driven by hate and stupidity.
Why don’t Registry opponents ever ask these criminal politicians why they are not including Gun Offenders in their proposed idiocy? Why not? Why don’t they just write it right in their law? Every “restriction” they propose obviously should include Gun Offenders or that exposes that none of it is actually about public safety or protecting children. They are liars.
Will Allen
The reasoning is basic. When you try enact ANY gun legislation, legal gun owners start getting nervous that they are next as it can be a segue to tougher gun laws.
But it is hypocritical when the same is not felt about sex offenses. “Do you time and move on with your life after a mistake” cannot happen. There are quite a few celebs on sex offender registries. Even they cannot buy their way off of it.
I often wonder how many of the gun offenders are legal gun owners, or are most of the offenders those who have illegal guns? If the offenses are by illegal gun owners then all the laws in the world will not solve the problem and only the legal gun owners will be negatively affected.
Does it matter if the guns were legal or not? I don’t get why legal gun owners would be worried about Registering gun criminals.
If you have shot your next door neighbor with a gun, you are nearly certainly more dangerous to society than someone who has viewed CP. So why would such a person be allowed to live near a school? What about stray bullets? Why wouldn’t that person be Registered because their new neighbors have a “right to know”? And just like with PFRs for sex offenses, big government would certainly want to know when such a person intended to go on a vacation with their family. So they could harass them.
Or how about the guy who got mad that school children were cutting across his lawn from school so he took a shovel and bashed one of their faces in? Is that more dangerous than looking at pictures? Or exposing oneself to women? Or, or, or? Should any person who has physically assaulted a child live by a school? Or running around inside of it?
Should drunk drivers live by schools?
The sex offense registries have nothing to do with public safety or protecting children. They exist for harassment and vengeance and to make little people feel better. And some people love the $$$, of course.
Actually there is a big difference between legal and illegal guns being registered. Registering guns that are legally owned make it much easier for a tyrannical government to confiscate guns from citizens. The second amendment is not there for hunters; it’s there for peace loving citizens to protect themselves from criminals and a government that is out of control. I suspect that most gun related crimes are not committed by those who passed a background check to purchase their gun. Today we have a government that will use any and every excuse to control the citizenry. The Constitution is in place to protect the citizens, not the government. A government that does not have a healthy respect for the citizens is a government that will remove all freedoms and make slaves/servants of all except those who are in on the conspiracy.
I’m not talking about Registering guns in any way. I’m talking about Registering people. Gun Offenders. They should have all the punishments/harassment/restrictions that “sex offenders” have and more. That’s common sense and if it saves one child, it’s worth it.
Not that it is related, but guns are never going to protect anyone from out-of-control big government. You see what they are doing to PFRs. They’ll do what they want. Is a gun protecting any PFR? Anyone else? You try to protect yourself with a gun and they’ll shoot you and put you in the ground or prison. That’s why I prefer to attack individuals in government, mostly economically, and guerilla style.
Guns to protect citizens from an out of control government was the original intent of the second amendment. A government that knows the citizens are armed is a government that will think twice before exercising its tyranny.
Capt
That is EXACTLY why the Government eventually WILL impose mandatory gun registration everywhere. When uprisings pop up they will know which houses to look out for and also possible confiscate weapons from in case of an invasion.
Anyone who thinks I am full of it, if someone had told you 5 years ago that one day soon the entire World would come to a screaming halt due to a World wide pandemic, you would not have believed me.
HECK, I wouldn’t have believed me. And yet it is right there in the Bible.
Matthew 24:6-14 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
First plague: The contents of the first bowl will cause painful sores upon those “who had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image” (Revelation 16:2). It appears these painful, open sores will be caused by some sort of skin disease or infection.
The report states this can lead to sex offenders becoming homeless, which then leads to them becoming more difficult to track and monitor.
This is all they care about? This is there favorite talking point. To use the means of “tracking and monitoring” as their ONLY reason for being against ordinances? How about people’s damn CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!!???
How about the idea that a FIRST WORLD COUNTRY should NOT have people being homeless due to a crime for which there is punishment and when the punishment comes to an end they have the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT of the pursuit of LIFE, LIBERTY AND HAPPINESS WITHOUT having to be “tracked and monitored”??!!! How about THAT?
It seems that even the “opponents” are stuck on fear mongering. Fck this sht! Someone stand the fck up and tell it like it is for fcksakes!!!
Whose report states that— the Department of Justice?
(OT) HORRORS! CP suspect allowed to take online courses.
A Twitter mob is forming to go after UM, and any professors teaching the courses in which he’s enrolled. Read the comments:
https://twitter.com/billycorben/status/1371863006083178496?s=12
Gun rights bear no relationship to protecting against out-of-control gov’t. Most who’ve lived under the registry understand this instinctively.
Id love to restore registrants’ 2nd Amendment rights but am under no illusions that doing so would allow us to make a dent in an oppressive registry law. If anything, it would result in public hysteria over “armed sex offenders” and larger Sheriff budgets for weapons, SWAT gear, and tactical training.
Rob Weiss, the chief clinical officer at Seeking Integrity Treatment Programs in Los Angeles, disputes the notion that sex addiction — or its cousin, compulsive sexual behavior disorder — is not diagnosable, or that it cannot be treated.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-atlanta-suspect-isn-t-the-first-to-blame-sex-addiction-for-heinous-crimes-but-scientists-are-dubious/ar-BB1eIs3G?ocid=msnews
Yet, the US Congress is passing legislation that makes “revenge porn” a federal offense.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/revenge-porn-new-federal-crime-prison-time-violence-against-women-act
FLORIDA SENATE VOTES TO CLOSE SEX OFFENDER LOOPHOLE
March 18, 2021
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A loophole in Florida’s sexual offender registration law would be closed under a Senate bill unanimously passed Thursday in response to a child molester who didn’t have to register because he didn’t pay a court-ordered fine.
A judge ruled last year that Ray La Vel James of Tampa, who spent 12 years in prison after being convicted of molesting two girls at a public pool, didn’t have to register as a sex offender because the law states registration isn’t required until a sentence is completed — and he hadn’t paid of a $10,000 fine that was part of his sentence.
“This man is the very definition of someone who should and must be on the sex offender registry and subject to things like community monitoring and residency restrictions, but because of this loophole, he could be living right next to a community pool,” said Democratic Sen. Lauren Book, the bill’s sponsor.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Florida-Senate-votes-to-close-sex-offender-16037006.php
I can’t help but wonder La Vel James caused any problems during those 12 years? Or is he just further proof that the registry is not really needed?