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Should all sex offenders have to register

You can't hardly turn on the news today without hearing about another child being abused, molested or worst of all, raped. It's scary to think that this happens anywhere, it's not discriminatory about location or the children involved. It's even worse when you have children and you have these thoughts that it could be your child on the news.

With people moving in and out of neighborhoods like rotating doors, it's difficult to keep up with your neighbors. Sure, you can sign up to be altered, by email, when an offender moves within so many miles of your home however, every system gets glitches. What if this happens to the alert team and you aren't notified? That could be a nightmare waiting to happen. Some people would say that this steps on the sex offenders toes but, who cares, they didn't opt to stay within the law when they broke it. They didn't care about anything when they did what they did.

I believe that every registered sex offender should have to put into writing, to the local law enforcement or a specially organized group, that are seeking to move into a neighborhood. From there, the neighborhood should be alerted and allowed to vote.

There are levels of sex offenders. I believe that child molesters/rapists are the lowest of low, they are below pond scum. Next comes the molesters/rapists of women. I would rather have them living next to me than a child molester/rapist since I feel I can defend myself better than an innocent child.

There is no way I want to live in a neighborhood where a sex offender that has violated a child lives in. There's something seriously wrong with anyone who want too. I strongly believe that we are to protect our children and not put them, knowingly, in harms way. By living next to someone like that, we would be doing exactly that.

If neighborhoods would be allowed to vote, than everyone would know where everyone else stood on the subject. You would get a chance to voice your opinion and have a chance to make the "right" decision. Without being given the chance to make that decision, our rights are being violated.

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