Shotgun Travels Home

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 09 Aug 2001 12:00:00 GMT
From Quotes of the Day:
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. -- Rita Rudner

I left Cheyenne at about 7:45am and arrived at DIA at 10:00. I-25 sure is busy these days. Nothing like when I lived there in the early seventies. My Mom told me how to get there via Brighton on country roads, so my drive was much more pleasant than the 104th street stop-and-go traffic I encountered on the way in. I decided to pack the shotgun in the hard case at home and carry it on the floor of the back seat. Worked fine. I rented a rolling cart and waited in line inside. When my turn came, I said, "I have two bags. The black case contains a shotgun." The check-in guy took my tickets, looked at my driver's license, and gave me an orange sticker to sign promising that the gun was unloaded. He asked me to put the sticker in the case with the gun. I asked, "Do you want to see it, or shall I just slip this in?" He said to just slip it in, so I unlocked the padlock on one end and did just that. He called someone to take my "oversize bag", and I walked to the boarding gate.

Northwest had the best vegetarian lunch I've ever had on an airplane. Amy's vegan bean and rice burrito w/Cholula Mexican hot sauce. Baby carrots. Nutrilicious Natural Bakery kosher vegetarian fat-free chocolate brownie. Yum! Especially the burrito and hot sauce.

When I got to Albany, the gun case came out on the carousel with all the other bags. I got it, waited a few minutes for my Jeep Titanium duffle bag, and walked to a cab. Simplicity itself!

catseye at Kuro5hin - Retail Stores Beginning to Fingerprint Customers - the author wanted to pay by check at a national shoe store chain. They wanted his thumbprint. He paid by credit card instead. I posted the following comment: [kuro5hin]

Why does a felony last forever?

I discovered that I'm really tired of being treated like a criminal. I've been fingerprinted many times in my life. I've been a licensed private investigator and security guard, and had weapons licenses. All those require fingerprinting so that the applicant's prints can be checked against FBI records to prevent a convicted felon being licensed. That, in my opinion, is reasonable.

There are all sorts of ways that convicted felons are turned into second class citizens. They can't vote. They can't legally own the means of self-defense. They have a hard time getting jobs. It's no wonder that many of them continue to commit crimes. What other choice do they have?

Felons should have full rights of citizenship after they have made restitution to the victim(s) of their crime.
simon farnz posted this reply to my comment:
They don't in some countries

In the UK, all criminal convictions expire a set amount of time after you have completed your sentence. There is an upper limit (I believe it is 11 years), and then some convictions (such as speeding) expire more quickly. Note that expiry only begins when you have completed your punishment; if you refuse to pay your fine/criminal compensation or escape from prison, your crime stays on record.

When a crime expires, it is effectively deleted from the records; I believe that it is still there, but it cannot be obtained by a civilian, or referred to in court.

The result is that criminals become normal citizens in the eyes of the law if they can stay straight for long enough after their release.
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If guns are outlawed, only outlaws have guns

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