One thing I noted in the first ISP guy's questions from Jim....
I could be mistaken, and please tell me if I am, I don't think that *applying for a license to carry handgun* is a crime, even as a former felony offender. Is it a crime for that person to carry a stungun or taser? As I recall, being issued a LTCH is required to carry those items.
I am not of the belief that a mistake in one's past, for which one has served a sentence, should forever mark that person as a defenseless victim.
(Put another way, if at age six, you broke a vase your mom had, because you were throwing a ball in the house, a rule of which you were aware, it would not be unreasonable to discipline you.... Maybe a "time out", maybe grounding, maybe a spanking.... maybe some combination of the above, or even a different penalty should be expected. But when that punishment has ended, a parent should not then, when the child is seven, eight, 10, 12, 15, whatever... continue to say, "Well, you broke that vase when you were six, so no, you can't (do whatever)."
I cannot imagine a parent refusing permission for a 16 yr old to get his/her driver's license because of an act committed when the child was six! Granted, we're only talking about 10 years later, but that's over 60% of that child's entire life.)
Just my thoughts.
Blessings,
Bill
I could be mistaken, and please tell me if I am, I don't think that *applying for a license to carry handgun* is a crime, even as a former felony offender. Is it a crime for that person to carry a stungun or taser? As I recall, being issued a LTCH is required to carry those items.
I am not of the belief that a mistake in one's past, for which one has served a sentence, should forever mark that person as a defenseless victim.
(Put another way, if at age six, you broke a vase your mom had, because you were throwing a ball in the house, a rule of which you were aware, it would not be unreasonable to discipline you.... Maybe a "time out", maybe grounding, maybe a spanking.... maybe some combination of the above, or even a different penalty should be expected. But when that punishment has ended, a parent should not then, when the child is seven, eight, 10, 12, 15, whatever... continue to say, "Well, you broke that vase when you were six, so no, you can't (do whatever)."
I cannot imagine a parent refusing permission for a 16 yr old to get his/her driver's license because of an act committed when the child was six! Granted, we're only talking about 10 years later, but that's over 60% of that child's entire life.)
Just my thoughts.
Blessings,
Bill