American’s must have forgotten the natural laws that their country was founded upon. The three natural laws that the United States of America was founded is the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. John Locke is the first person to say these only he said property instead of the pursuit of happiness. Property is anything you can buy or achieve; so, why are we restricting people from buying land and homes.
Everyday on the news we hear of new sex offenders and new laws punishing them more severely. What American citizens do not realize is that these people are nearly left with nothing. People convicted of any type of sex crime are not allowed to live within 1,000 feet of a child daycare. This law is not that strict and normally people will apply to this law, but some new proposals of some restrictions have caused a major uproar.
One article in the Seattle Times covered this controversy, it said, “In April (2007), Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a stricter law, which prohibits sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school-bus stop. Anyone who does not comply faces a minimum of 10 years in prison.” This is causing tremendous amounts of arguments since there are over 150,000 bus stops in the state of Georgia. Another problem is that the police cannot enforce these new laws. In the article it also says, “Sheriffs say the bus-stop restriction would be almost impossible to enforce.”
With schools in every county it is going to be nearly impossible for a person to find somewhere to live. This is taking away their natural right to property. Some would say they should not have these rights since they broke the law, but some people do not realize that all sex offenders are treated the same no matter what they did. These laws are not specific to one kind of sex law; so, a young boy or girl that had sex with a 16 year old when he or she was 18 would have the punishment as a person who violently rapes someone. If the laws were set for the type of sexual crimes there would be more compliance.
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