Remember when Democrats fought to stop criminal background checks?
Y'know, I can see actual justification for that. When you're convicted of a crime, you serve your time in jail and that should be that. It seems cruel and unusual to have someone be unhireable because they stole from Walmart or whatever.
But of course, that assumes we have a functional legal and penal system. And assumes that people become repeat offenders because they have no other opportunities, which is an extension of people commit crime because they're poor... and I've just talked myself out of support for that policy in the span of a comment
Y'know, I can see actual justification for that. When you're convicted of a crime, you serve your time in jail and that should be that. It seems cruel and unusual to have someone be unhireable because they stole from Walmart or whatever.
But of course, that assumes we have a functional legal and penal system. And assumes that people become repeat offenders because they have no other opportunities, which is an extension of people commit crime because they're poor... and I've just talked myself out of support for that policy in the span of a comment