NRA and National Online Records Check bullshit
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
dlv at bwalk.dm.com
Tue Jul 1 05:48:50 PDT 1997
Kent Crispin <kent at songbird.com> writes:
> "Convicted Felon" is a permanent legal condition, a title with
> permanent social effects.
Weren't all felonies capital crimes initially?
A hungry little boy convicted of stealing a loaf of bread would hang.
Some time later the felons were given a choice of going to the gallows
or to Australia.
A convicted felon freed after a jail sentence is a fairly recent invention.
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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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