[jrm]

I agree completely with ICPJ. The sex offender school bus stop law is dumb, and won't accomplish anything, if enforced, other than disrupt the lives of people that we have deemed worth of re-integration into society.

As for Taler's question: There is logic to it, but I think geaux_tigers makes a likely winning counterpoint. Municipal bus stops, even if not designated by act of the municipal board, are marked. School bus stops are not, and school buses frequently stop at places other than the places the school transportation people designate. Wherever the kids congregate waiting for the bus is where the bus driver stops.

 

[jrm]

I guess that makes a school bus stop a public gathering? :roll:

 

[jrm]

Taler, I don't think you are grasping at straws. I think there are good arguments that GA's CCW law is unconstitutional (especially the state constitution).

 

[jrm]

Actually, they are taking property. One of the fundamental rights of ownership of real property is the right to occupy it. By making occupancy a crime, property has been taken away.

 

[jrm]

MP, we've had our share of discussions on capital punishment, so I'll leave that one alone. What do you propose we do with repeat roadside urinators?

 

[jrm]

:rotfl:

 

[jrm]

I did a skim of the very lengthy bill (HB 1059), and it looks like the only way the full-bladdered traveler might land on the registry is if the "victim" of the horrid sight is a minor.

One interesting thing I noted was that incestuous crimes seem to have some unfounded gender bias. Homosexual relations between grandparents and grandchildren of any generder is incest. Among aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews, however, homosecual relations are not incest (???), but heterosexual relations are.

 

[jrm]

Gunsmoker, first of all, I agree with virtually everything you said in your lengthy email of yesterday.

As for the shorter email, I should clarify about my observation regarding homosexual incest. You seem to have focused on "sexual intercourse" and its definition, while I was referencing the gender terms used in the statute. Note that I used the phrase "sexual relations" because I was not limiting my discussion to intercourse.

Anyway, my point was that the statute prohibits sexual relations (not necessarily intercourse) between grandparents and grandchildren (gender neutral terms). It also prohibits relations between uncles and nieces, and between aunts and nephews (gender specific terms). It does not prohibit relations between uncles and nephews and between aunts and nieces. I do not believe it is the sense of the general assembly that "funny uncles" should stay away from their nieces, but that it's open season on nephews.