Convicted Felons: How To Restore Your Gun Rights

By G. Halek

I’ll never completely wrap my head around it. There’s a class of Americans that are treated as second class citizens for the rest of their lives despite the fact many of them never hurt a hair on anyone’s head. Basic rights are taken away and they are extremely expensive to regain. Permanent black marks trail the person as he or she applies for any job. The laundry list goes on.

They call it the ‘Department of Corrections’ and our prisons are usually named ‘Correctional Facilities’. The idea is that a person can be rehabilitated so as to be a productive member of society. Not every felon is a violent, bloodthirsty pirate. In fact, in quite a lot of cases, the person serving time may have never committed any violent act that would have resulted in loss of life, property, or even societal well-being.

And, in some cases, ex-felons have gone on to defend and save the lives of other people.

There is this great assumption that society views felons as “once a felon, always a felon.”

That doesn’t give a lot of room for rehabilitation — if that’s the point of putting people behind bars.

In this article, we’ll discuss ways that a former …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation