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Ice Cream Trucks

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This law assumes that all on the sexual offender list will use ice cream trucks to harm minors, while this is a specific law it is done with good conscious as protection. Prohibiting sex offenders from operating ice cream trucks is founded on the idea that they would use the truck to bring children to them thus allowing them to commit more acts that they have already been charged for. From this, it is assumed that every sex offender will continue to act in a dishonorable way even though some may have been wrongly charged or rehabilitated to function as a normal person in society. This is also seen as an opportunity for sex offenders to get close enough to kids to harm them. Ice cream trucks are innocent in that children will run up to them and trust the ice cream man. This makes it easier for those that want to use children to lure them into the truck and away. This law protects children from potentially harmful situations that they are naive of. …show more content…

It could be assumed that those with a criminal background have the potential to hurt children, but this is a specific group of people that have committed a specific crime. While this is a bad way to go about this, the law has been put into place to reduce the likelihood of those people relapsing on the crime they have done in the past. It is a way to protect children, therefore comes from a good set of ethics. Children cannot protect themselves, therefore, they need someone looking out for them. In the end, it allows parents to have a greater peace of mind when their kids run out to the street with their hard-earned quarters following the alluring

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