They shouldn't be, given the low threshold for qualifying as one.
In the joint snitches are as reviled as child molesters, so CNN and MSNBC need to push for laws informing Americans of tattletales and busybodies in every neighborhood, telling lies and slandering little children.
Police and prosecutors use laws to "pile on" whenever they arrest or charge somebody. I've heard of cases where they got a beer-drinking college student who was taking a leak outdoors and charged him as a "sex offender". The priority seems to be to create as many "felons" as possible so as to be able to deny those persons constitutional rights for the rest of their lives. Often it seems they'll charge some kind of felony which any paid lawyer can have dismissed, usually in exchange for the defendant pleading out to lesser misdemeanors. The laws are abused as "bargaining chips" and, since the state has unlimited resources to prosecute and the individual usually has limited funds to defend himself, they get away with it. I'd like to see cops and prosecutors held personally liable for expenses and damages resulting from their intentional "over-charging".
That's twice in two days that I agree with you.
I think I need a nap ;-)
I find it interesting how many of these threads you show up on defending sex offenders, decrying laws to notify others of them, and decrying punishment for them. It's very curious!
Most of them just used your neighborhood to register. Ugly little truth is that they are living elsewhere. Maybe in you neighborhood!
I went to the registry for my neighborhood and found that some one had once visited a hooker. It scared me so badly that I moved. /s