[DoodleDawg]

Absolutely agreed, JRF. Mr. K, the felon PAID HIS DUES when he served his sentence. To keep punishing him after he served the punishment is BULLSH*T.

So if someone goes to jail for child molestation and serves his time, you don't think there should be restrictions on where he can live or go, or an on-line registry telling all his neighbors about his past?

[Starstruck]

So if someone goes to jail for child molestation and serves his time, you don't think there should be restrictions on where he can live or go

The child molester is pretty much on lifetime probation which means that criminal act has different consequences than someone who committed a crime, did the time and finished parole.

[suijuris]

So if someone goes to jail for child molestation and serves his time, you don't think there should be restrictions on where he can live or go, or an on-line registry telling all his neighbors about his past?

Maybe the questions should be: If someone is convicted of child molestations should he/she ever be allowed out of prison? Likewise, I don't believe anyone convicted of 1st degree murder should ever get out. After legitimate and fairly quick appellate process a conviction of 1st degree murder should result in the death penalty.

[Finny]

So if someone goes to jail for child molestation and serves his time, you don't think there should be restrictions on where he can live or go, or an on-line registry telling all his neighbors about his past?

You are confusing punishment with prevention. You're not putting those restrictions on the child molester to "punish" him. You're putting them there to protect the kids from a sick bastard who need his ass seriously squared away.

How preventing some poor schlub who is a felon because of some bar fight he was in back in the '80s from having a modern side arm, is "protecting" anyone is beyond me. THAT is just pure, angry punishment, a finger-in-your-face "bad dog! You should have known better!" piousness.

Bah.

[Finny]

You confuse punishment with prevention.