Comments on: NARSOL honors Donald Surrett, Jr., a registrant and a hero

By: Jerry P

Jerry P — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 20:05:30 +0000

It’s been years ago, I remember a man had died in an automobile accident in Eastern North Carolina and the news also HAD TO MENTION he was also a sex offender… The man had died in an auto accident….

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 19:33:49 +0000

Hello, first I want to thank Donald for jumping into action when the other people in the store did nothing to stop the shooter. They either hid or run out of the store screaming and The hero Donald stood face to face with the shooter, not even some law enforcement would have done what Donald did. Like I’ve said before, the only way to show the Supreme Court, legislature and all involved with lawmaking and put them on the registry for one year and all there personal info and picture on the sex offender registry and must follow all laws pertaining to for one year, then tell us if it’s a punishment or not. Yet they made the sex offender registry and the laws on sex offenders without any evidence plus the US Government knew that sex offender registry recidivism rate is below 5% and yet one year after that study, they enacted the sex offender registry anyways ignoring the evidence the government found, so tell me what is really going on.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:50:01 +0000

In reply to CherokeeJack. A registrant could run into a burning house and save a child and die from his burns and the news media and the public would still run him down. There will never be forgiveness for any of us.

By: Tim in WI

Tim in WI — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 03:38:12 +0000

I wonder where he’d been working if he wasn’t on the registry. I wonder if the word hero is overvalued and over used. Some people run from a fire, a few run towards them, but most do nothing. We know which kinda man Don was. Not unusual for a trained man. There are many.

By: CherokeeJack

CherokeeJack — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:52:27 +0000

In reply to Move to another country a.s.a.p..

Good for you
My people have lived on this land called America for 1000s of years and were pushed into “Camps” and rounded up and sometimes even shot. I was born here, as were many generations of my family (Although I have mixed blood) so I am not going anywhere. I will stay and fight.

By: CherokeeJack

CherokeeJack — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:48:20 +0000

In reply to Former Offender.

TO Former Offender

Thank you so much for pointing that out “Former” offender. Even on this stories comments, some are still calling themselves sex offenders. Is someone who had a DUI 20 years ago and gave up drinking still an alcoholic? I do not think so. If you label yourself for life (Unless you are still doing wrong) why?

My crime is pushing 30 years ago now so why again am I a sex offender? Does someone who robbed a store at age 18 still a robber when they turn 50 and have never again committed a crime? Well I know when someone in sports retires, they do not call them a football player, they call them a retired player. Why, because they are “No longer playing”.

By: w

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 11:07:46 +0000

There are thousands of stories every day, all the time, where maybe a few other “unsung heroes” don’t get their due credit. But there will also be the few that do. Don’t forget who owns and runs the media…almost as if the story was picked with these details in particular…

The tragedy is not that he committed a heroic act. The tragedy is that he died BEFORE ever seeing his registration status change. Tell this gentleman that he would die an rso in the public’s eyes and see how he would’ve responded to knowing that fate. And if it was a red or blue or even yellow state do you think he cared for either? THE “state” did this to him. The state made him a target with his rso status and the state put an armed man to cross paths with him in a conflict where the outcome was thus.

Something fishy here…George Floyd II anyone? RSOLM!

By: Move to another country a.s.a.p.

Move to another country a.s.a.p. — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 05:21:37 +0000

Agreeing with what everyone that has posted here
& another great article by Sandy.
Not going to bore you with my experience living as a S.O. in the so-called “land of the free and the brave” (not).
Legally moving out of here,
have to share this,
my life in another country has allowed me to be the good person I am.
That’s all I got to comment.

By: Former Offender

Former Offender — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:37:46 +0000

While I am sad that Mr. Surrett passed due to his injuries, the fact that he was able to save lives makes him a hero. He could have got down on the floor or hid, but he choose not to. Instead he put his life on the line to provide help to others. He was a selfless individual. There have been some amazing stories of redemption, of people who have made mistakes in the past, but have gone on to be productive members of society. It is these examples that we need to let shine when the old worn out troupes are brought out against sex offenders.

The tide against these stupid senseless laws must change. The state and federal government need to stop passing laws that punish people AFTER their time has been served. We need to urge lawmakers to repeal these laws and work on better treatment and programs for post-release rather than the lock’em up and throw away the key approach.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 02:43:01 +0000

We have no future, NONE, if we don’t find a way to take our future back. Until then we have no life, and you know how that has ended for people that have been deemed as worthless by the government. There are 2 roads in life. One is where we are winning and learning. The other is where we are losing all the way to our grave. We better choose quickly, or life will choose it for us.