Punishing The Innocent
If a man TRULY has "paid his debt" to society, and we let him out, why do we continue to punish him?
Truly paying debt and being out on parole are two separate things.
You know, we have the technology to brand criminals and make it easy to identify them.
This is, however, viewed as inhumane. It's unkind to openly identify someone as untrustworthy. The insistence on letting a known bad guy loose among the general population without some means of recognizing him for who and what he is -- and then "prohibiting" him from certain access -- leads to the "axiom" that you can't trust anybody and therefore have to verify that everybody isn't him.
And it's more humane to hassle every honest, law-abiding, never-been-charged-with-anything citizen, every time he wants to exercise a a basic human right.
The open breach of logic is just astounding.
And why -- if we mean to punish HIM do we instead punish everyone else
No one gets "punished" by an instant background check. There is no assumption of your current guilt or innocence, only your past where you were previously judged (or not).
Really?
Why don't they already know I can be trusted?
They insist that I fill out a form (attesting I'm a good guy) every stinking time I buy a gun, then they call to see if I lied on the form. Oh, and they make me
PAY -- in advance -- for this privilege every stinking time.
And that's not punitive?
I bought a car last year, and one the year before that. Why didn't I get a background check? Why didn't I have to pay for a background check?
Simple. I can't defend my family with a car. I can't defend my family, my person, my property, my rights, or my country with a car.
And the objective is to obstruct my purchase of defensive capability. The objective is not crime prevention. If the objective were crime prevention, they would have long since ceased doing what so obviously doesn't work and would have started branding criminals.
The objective is the degradation and obstruction and eventual denial of a basic right.
And this is necessary because the ultimate plan is tyranny.
And that's why the right was enumerated and secured in the first place.