Registered Citizens Need To Protect Themselves
As a registered citizen I didn’t sleep well last night.
I could not get the thought of someone I don’t know showing up at my door ready to bash my head in when it opened.
Since reading yesterday’s story in the Palm Beach Post titled, “Florida Man Attacks Sex Offender With Hammer” I’ve decided to do something about it. The story reads, “Ian Saum, 26, told authorities that he looked up sex offenders in his area” and continues,”Deputies said when [the registrant] came to the door, Saum “lunged at him with the hammer”.
Enough is enough! This is not a fluke incident. How many lives will be threatened or people killed before someone realizes that the sex offender registry is a hit list? There is a long history of registrants being attacked, beaten, extorted, harassed and even killed, all because their name appears on the list.
For the most part; being a convicted felon precludes the right to possess a firearm, so how is someone to protect themselves and their families from these crazy vigilantes and what (if anything) is the State of Florida doing to protect it’s citizens that it publicly outs and then leaves hanging defenseless?
For one; I suggest that anyone who is eligible to, file a petition for “Specific Authority to Own, Possess or Use Firearm”
The application can be found here:
https://www.fcor.state.fl.us/docs/clemency/ClemencyApplication.pdf
Be sure to check the specific box labeled “Specific Authority to Own, Possess or Use Firearm”.
If you have other ideas; please contribute them in the comments below.
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I’m eligible to have my 2nd amendment right (firearm) restored. All of my other Civil Rights hav been restored for many years now, which I have served on a jury and voted. My question is that I’ve read that there is currently a 9 year wait (at least) for specific firearm authority right restoration. If true then something needs to be done, because you have to wait 8 years after all of the sentencing requirements are completed! Thank you for any input,
Over twenty years ago I was on my way home from work when I encountered a prostitute. When this woman propositioned me I foolishly accepted, such was the misjudgement born of a recent divorce. While she looked, acted , and sounded like she was an adult, she was in fact 17 yoa. Although she admitted she was a prostitute, admitted lying about her age, admitted she knew she looked older, and that I was not adjudicated guilty of ant felonies by the court, I am still required to be on the registry.
Up until this incident, I am someone who spent most of their life in a “special operations” environment. Not having ever lost my second amendment right, I am someone who exercises them.
So I say to the vigilante in Clermont and to any of you reading this that are like minded, should you ever come to my home and threaten me or my family you will not survive it. Make sure that your affairs are in order prior to arriving at my home to make those you leave behind less hindered by your lack of preparation. I will give you no quarter as you and those like you intend to give none of the same. So the next time you decide to pick someone off the registry to harm or murder I’m hoping it will be me.
Leonitas,
I am sorry for your requirement to register. As misunderstood as we who were adjudicated guilty or accepted a plea I think the general public is 100% in the dark to the fact that one can be required to register without having been convicted.
We spend a great deal of time on those of us “convicted” and served our time that this issue (yours) does get often overlooked. I look forward to a day when changed can be made to remove citizens like yourself from the registry.