Never has been, never will be. A nation of immigrants will forever and always have rifts. It's unavoidable. The sooner we realize and accept it instead of trying to PC it into submission the sooner we'll make progress.
Look at Texas for an example. They execute murderers more than any other State. I think they're like 4th in population, so logic dictates that there will be more murders there than in, say, Iowa. But I'd wager they have fewer than Michigan with a smaller population. And the nutcases want to whine about how the death penalty isn't a deterrant. Even if it isn't, it sure as hell keeps THAT one from doing it again.
catocom said:
IMO the laws need to be fixed so they don't conflict.
With the individual States setting their own laws, you'd be bound to have variences. But, you'd also have the ability to vote in/out lawmakers who propose a governing that you approve and not have to give a hang what someone in Oregon thinks about it...they set theirs, we set ours.
I know for a fact that convicted sex offenders who get released on supervision compare State laws and migrate to more lenient States. Lately, States have been toughening their laws and requirements in part to slow down or halt the influx of out-of-state sex offender migration. I know Tennessee did it, and that was one of the stated purposes of the legislation. It piled a heap more work on me, but that's OK. I don't mind pissing these assholes off.
I'm passive aggressive enough to get real picky when it suits me. I have one who wanted to transfer to another State. He could have if left to the other State, but there was a technicality in our law that gave me the discretion whether to pursue it. He's still here, and he doesn't like me very much. Keeps me up at night with guilt. He toes a pretty fine line too. But in the State he wanted to go to, he would not have been required to register due to the type sentence he received. Here he does. A small step, but at the least people in the community know he's afoot.