People spend so much time talking about registeries for sex offenders and ignore drug pushers. Why not make all persons convicted of selling drugs register for at least 10 years and putting that on the internet like sex offenders?? The children as well as adults that are destroyed by drugs far exceeds the numbers of sex offences.
2007-02-13 02:16:22 · 9 answers · asked by mr conservative 5 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Good plan!
2007-02-13 02:23:59 · answer #1 · answered by boilerrat 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
A sex offender is guilty of a particularly noxious act if it was against a child. The registry, however much it may not work, was designed to alert families with children, and in many cases young women as well. However, it would be much too cumbersome to have a data base/registry of drug dealers. Also, the offense is not considered uber-hideous by society. Why stop at drug dealers? What if someone wanted a registry for robbers? What about those guilty of animal cruelty?
2007-02-13 10:41:47 · answer #2 · answered by Philip Kiriakis 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You have to understand that this country is all about money and if they ever registered all the drug dealers, it might well expose a majority of professional careers. The government allows drugs to be distributed out on the streets. This is how they make a large chunk of their income. A registry of drug dealers would just be like a phone book for users. Don't be silly. Thank you.
2007-02-13 10:42:29 · answer #3 · answered by cookie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why not?
1.) The accuracy of such databases is very hard to establish and maintain. Many people who should be in the sex offender databases are not, and others who should be removed after a period of time (or who should never have been listed at all) are still there.
2.) Gravity of offense is often muted in such a database. An eighteen-year-old male who has sex with his 17-year-old girlfriend can be listed as an offender alongside a violent serial rapist. We label both as "sex offenders" with all the stigma that goes with it. Likewise, somebody who sells a joint to a friend will be lumped in with people who oversee major meth distribution rings.
3.) In my opinion giving the government power to keep databases on citizens is an inherently dangerous thing. It REALLY IS a slipperly slope that may someday lead to public databases on political and religious dissenters, and turn us ALL into Big Brother, spying on and reporting our neighbors.
BTW the largest numbers of "children as well as adults that are destroyed by drugs" are those who are jailed for very minor possession charges and lose their jobs / employability. In my opinion the way to reduce this impact is to decriminalize possession and use of minor drugs like marijuana... they should be legal, taxed, and regulated just like alcohol. By making them illegal we only encourage their distribution by criminal organizations.
2007-02-13 10:40:01 · answer #4 · answered by cmor5859 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
People choose to buy drugs, people do not choose to be sexually assaulted. If your life is destroyed by drugs that is your own fault for doing drugs, you have the free will and choice whether you do or do not do drugs. It is not at all close to sex offenders they prey on people and actually ruin the lives of innocent people.
2007-02-13 10:26:16 · answer #5 · answered by Chris 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
lmao@u yiou really believe thats gonna solve the so called drug probelem? let me ask you how does my pot smoking hurt you personally .... it doesnt, how does pot selling effect you ? it doesnt , how does anything that a drug user does effect you? does the drug harm you , rob you , make you sell your nasty bits... NO it doesnt.. what does effect others that doesnt use drugs is when a broke drug user STEALS something to be sold for drugs then it effects you . i say let people kill themselves with the damn things cocaine,crack , pot whatever let them do what they want until they actually effect someone elses life.
Plain and simple the government controls our thoughts,actions and liberties enough why add another layer of conformist laws that only effect 1% of population . i say you all need to take care of yourself and stop worrying so damn much you scared suburbanites are crazy
2007-02-13 10:29:59 · answer #6 · answered by glavendale 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because so far the sex offender registry hasn't done much good.
2007-02-13 10:19:22 · answer #7 · answered by Runa 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because of the DEEP UNDERCOVER personal.
2007-02-13 10:59:20 · answer #8 · answered by Bobbie4u 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right on.
2007-02-13 21:22:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋