National organization works to eliminate sex offender registries
When Congress passed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, it required states to enact a sex offender registry for those convicted of certain sex crimes.
In the 28 years since the law has passed, sex offender registries have become a tool for the public to identify offenders and find out where they live. Now one national organization is working to eliminate those registries altogether. Robin Vander Wall serves as the chair of the National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws, or NARSOL.
“Our vision has always been that this is a bad tool,” Robin Vander Wall says.
Vander Wall is calling for an end to sex offender registries nationwide, saying it prevents former offenders from moving on with their lives. Vander Wall said that NARSOL feels the constant exposure from the internet isn’t fair and only fuels violence and discrimination.
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It’s very interesting how rape and murder are considered to be the worst crimes yet there is no registry for convicted murderers or those who drive-by and shoot kids and are later released on a technicality. Why isn’t rape and molestation of children glorified in the movies as murder is glorified? It’s such a bias and shrewd system. So much of it needs to be corrected.
Finally, someone in Washington gets it. Maybe the pendulum is swinging the other way.
People using guns are the number one cause of death to children in America-not cancer, not COVID, not pneumonia, or anything else, but someone using a gun.
Very rarely is the victim of a sex offense murdered.
If politicians really, really cared about the safety of children, they would enact laws that would help protect them from being murdered by someone with a gun, but since some care more about guns than children, we are the primary target they aim at concerning child safety when it’s election time while children are getting mowed down in classrooms and slaughtered on the streets.
murder is already illegal in this country… Guns are the rights of every American… SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! They will never be taken away. Simple as that… If you are against firearms then dont buy one. But you have no right to tell anyone if they should own one or not…
Felons can’t have firearms unless their rights have been restored.
Guess what… not all sex offenders are felons… like me my adjudication off guilt was withheld. I did not loose my rights. I buy firearms all the time at dealers; do my background check. My conceal carry license as well I have. Which took 72 days to get approved. So yes convicted felons can’t own guns… not all of us here are “felons”
You missed the boat on this one, Walt.
I never said people should not be allowed to own a firearm.
I believe every home and store owner should have a firearm for protection.
I am pointing out the fact that if American government was truly interested in protecting children, they would do something about the gun violence that is killing them instead of pointing the finger at us as though we are the number one problem of child danger.
You are highly misinformed. Guns are NOT the number one killer of children in the US. The number one killer is actually accidents, followed by cancer/self harm/congenital issues/homicide depending on age.
Of those accidents, the top killers are as follows: motor vehicle traffic, drowning, and then fire/burns. After that is firearms. This is based on 30 years of research.
And in fact, millions more are saved every year by guns than are harmed.
Citation needed for ‘millions more children are saved by guns.’
Arm yourselves. Govt wont protect you from assaults, perjury, or even death. Children of registrants will begin their revenge of a system that promotes and encourages vigilantism
Also if you arm yourself please do so within the bounds of the law and for strictly legal purposes. Remember that FAC endorses no call to arms.
I take solace and wisdom from the words of humans like Ghandi, and Bill W. There is only so much hate and anger that I can carry before it drags me down. I won’t let those who wish to see me fall win. I hope that I have learned from the mistake that I made and now live by example
I got my conceal carry license for a reason. We all have a target on our backs. While only a small number of us can carry legally. I hope those that can carry legally do so!
If you are a convicted felons, especially a registrant, how are you legally able to own a gun? I’m for non violence. Doesn’t mean that I won’t defend myself , but why give sheriff’s like Judd, Chitwood, and Staley an easy target.
Because just because I am a sex offender does not mean I am a convicted felon. My adjudication. Of guilt was withheld. Which means I don’t loose my rights. 🙂 I can vote, I can buy guns, I have my conceal carry license…