False security
To the editor:
If Doug Mays really wants to convince voters that he’s tough on crime, why stop at preventing sex offenders from living within half a mile of schools and day care centers? Why not introduce a bill preventing murderers from living within half a mile of any person? Or embezzlers from living within half a mile of money? Surely these initiatives would be equally helpful in preventing crime.
Oh, wait, but they don’t play upon people’s willingness to trade others’ civil rights for a false sense of safety, so I guess they wouldn’t help Mays to be elected governor.
Rachel Hile Bassett,
Lawrence