how about felons get a special edition Drivers License with a scarlet F emblazoned across it?
Thus creating yet another black market in phake IDs.
How about we quit punishing people after we let them out?
If you're out, you're a free man.
If you can't be trusted with firearms, why are you out?
This pretext of "corrections" and "rehabilitation" within the prison system, and "paying your debt to society" crap needs to be completely tossed.
Make up your [cultural] mind already. If he's a bad man, a violent man, a man beyond redemption, why the hell would you ever let him out? If, on the other hand, correction and rehab can actually work, then
make it effing work and let a free man be a free man.
Repeat offenders? Pretended redemption? Commits another violent crime? Warehouse the miscreant, either in a prison or a cemetery.
I don't want people running around with a "scarlet letter," and I really,
really don't want a system [such as we have now] where I continually have to prove I'm
not one of the bad guys every time I want to exercise a right. I mean,
REALLY?When you're done punishing or rehabilitating a man, then
BE DONE already! Seriously. It is cruel and unusual to tell a man, "you're free now . . . but we own you forever, and you may not do this list of things."
Gah!