Posted on 08/13/2011 10:34:17 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Residents in an exclusive west Orange County subdivision want to ban registered sex offenders from moving in.
State law requires convicted sex offenders to live at least 1,000 feet from schools or playgrounds, but residents in the Keene's Pointe gated community in Windermere said they want to bump that up to 2,500 feet.
A rule like that would keep any sex offender from moving into the subdivision.
"Everybody wants this to be as safe a place as possible to raise their kids and they all recognize that this is one of the ways to do that," said HOA President Russ Blackwell.
The idea came about when residents learned that their neighbor was a registered sex offender.
The ban would apply to future residents.
P.S. Thank you for your service.
I saw him piss into the lake several times before he missed the cut this week.
OH, yeah, wimmin don’t urinate in public? They just don’t get arrested.
Take a google tour before your halo blinds us.
If they put in a small playground on every cul-de-sac and set up a few private schools (maybe home schooler association meeting locations), the whole area becomes off limits to sex offenders without actually changing the law.
Well, if this is unconstitutional, “unconstitutional” things have been going on for a long time...for example, I think that I read that in Kentucky’s state constitution, you can’t become a Governor if you have ever participated in a duel (which was apparently legal in many areas at the time). Nonetheless, I am not in favor of the idea of this deed of restriction, mostly because of the ever-widening definition of “offender”.
The Subdivision, Keenes Pointe, is in the town of Windermere. What some locals will recall, is that the police chief got himself in trouble trying to cover up “Sex battery on a child under 12” for a friend of his. This all happened since January of this year...
http://www.wftv.com/news/26465409/detail.html
It may keep them from moving in, but it dose NOT KEEP THEM OUT the own cars, bikes, motorcycles etc.
Short of imprisoning them for life in some place like the Aleutian Islands, with men on 1 island and women on another, they will always be able to get at your children.
The failure is the law and law makers to properly penalize these unfixable preverts.
This was one reason why I've been opposed to the whole idea of "registered sex offenders" in the first place. If a convicted criminal is such a serious threat to his/her fellow citizens that the state feels a need to "register" them, then just leave them in prison indefinitely. Otherwise, there's no point in having an official designation of this sort unless it carries some weight in the form of heavy restrictions that can be imposed by law-abiding citizens.
Equal protection under law......
Once a sex offender completes his/her sentence, he/she should be allowed to live wherever they want.
If that bothers a community, they should change the sentencing laws.
“Sex offender registries cannot be relied upon”
Indeed. One moved in with his brother in my neighborhood, after getting out of prison and stayed for about a month then moved. He stayed on the registry at his brother’s address for the next 4 years.
Stolen for temporary tag line usage.
People want to label everyone a sex offender and not hang those that actually molest children. So, we have child molesters out of jail walking around and lots of people called sex offenders that are not, then the people don’t want them living in their neighborhood. People are stupid. Screw them. Any perosn not in jail can live anywhere they damned well want. This idea that we should have two societies, one that thinks they are pure as the wind drivewn snow and those they don’t like and want to label as bad people, leads only to warfare as the half that feels put down and put out have nothing left to lose and kill the other half. History repeats itself.
If someone molests a child they need killed, not let free to roam around and molest other children. Predators on society need put down.
“Well, the idiot. Why didn’t he use the men’s room? I have no sympathy for your friend’s son, he broke the law and knew he was doing so. Men can be so disgusting, pissing in a parking lot! It’s not on par with rape, but it is wrong.
GUYS: the world is not your urinal.”
Same goes for women. More women take a piss by the side of road than men I have known. I guess they are all sex offenders.
I’m flattered.
You have a good point there.
GUYS: the world is not your urinal.
(Caveat: this is the extreme female point of view, don’t be mean now because I’m a girl and naturally feel this way.)
Not to be mean, but to place a citizen on a sex offender list for public urination is the height of FemiNazi/collectivist wet dreams.
“Wrong” can be dealt with with a fine. I know this may be difficult reasoning for you because I have a Y chromosome and you do not (as you noted in your post) but consider whether your post is congruent with “Let the punishment fit the crime”.
Just a suggestion.
The presstitute who wrote that ‘article’ can’t be relied upon either. Upon reading the article, I found the following new development in the world of firearms - “Armed with those details, Marshall arrived at William’s trailer one April night and shot him dead with a .45 Magnum as he came to answer the knock at his door.”
I have not heard of a “.45 magnum”.
But, what would a mere NRA firearms instructor know, compared to the boundless wisdom of a Liberal presstitute?
Man, I hate to do this to you, but chances are good the journalist was correct, because you are wrong. The .45 Winchester Magnum has been around for quite a while now. I owned one in the 80's.
Why be sorry? I should have done a quick google check. Turns out it does exist.
Which gun did you have?
And what was your opinion of the recoil compared to the .44 mag and the .454 Casuell?
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