maleficent

What would you do if you found you had a convicted sex offender living on your street? Move? Good luck trying to get fair market value on your house if there's a 'bad person' living down the street... Burn down your house and collect the insurance? Arson is a crime? Lock your doors? Locks are not going to stop anyone with a purpose in mind? Spend your days and nights watching them? that's not much of a life...

What good does it do to know that the person across the street is a convicted sex offender?

I am not soft on crime or soft on criminals... I firmly support the death penalty for pretty much everything... (well not everything but most everything) but Idon't see how this won't lead to vigilantism... and I know people won't care because all that was done was hurt a child... well -- for some of the same reasons why I think Hate crime legislation is completely wrong -- making a crime against a child worse than a crime against an adult is also wrong.. a crime is a crime... if you are going to publicize sex offenders, then burglers and drunk drivers and other criminals should also be publicized.

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