February 20, 2009, - 11:17 am
Violent Criminals Who illegally Carry Guns v. Me: Guess Who Gets Treated Better
By Debbie Schlussel
As readers know, I am seeking a Concealed Pistol License (CPL). I told you about the Obama-supporter-filled course I took this summer, a course you must take in Michigan if you want to apply for and get a CPL.
This morning, I went to get fingerprinted at my county sheriff’s office, a requirement for those who want a CPL. Not that this is news to me, but as I was being fingerprinted, I saw the stark contrast of how I–a person seeking to be able to carry a gun for my own personal protection after tons of death, rape, and torture threats from peaceful, moderate American Muslims–was treated versus criminals.
It took almost a half-hour for them to fingerprint me. Why? Well, they repeatedly roll every finger, every knuckle, every crevice of your hand to get prints from them on a computer screen. It hurt, it was very uncomfortable and ridiculous, and I felt like someone was giving me an unwanted, over-zealous finger Shiatsu massage. I had to do all kinds of contortions for this absurd process. My fingers and entire palm still hurt a lot and are all red and swollen. Take it from me: If you are a hand model, don’t ever seek a Concealed Pistol License in Michigan.
I was also repeatedly told by personnel in the sheriff’s office that my fingers were too small and that my fingerprints were not as readable as most people. I joked to them that that this was because I got kidnapped by the mob, and they erased all my fingerprints.
Meanwhile, right next to me, as I stood getting this ridiculous, uncomfortable hand manipulation–so some hand-porn addict can one day look at the side shot of my naked palm–I watched criminals, job applicants for law enforcement in the sheriff’s office, and those seeking to adopt kids get one-minute fingerprint takings, using ink. While a computer technician took and analyzed almost 5 or six repeated prints of each tiny portion of my hand, each finger and the sides and other angles of my palm, criminals were quickly doing basic, quick fingerprints in ink.
What a contrast. If you are an innocent citizen who wants to protect him/herself, you are given an anal/rectal exam of your hands. But if you are a criminal or someone seeking to be a law enforcement officer, no such treatment. I once represented a woman who allegedly stole $17,000 from the U.S. Air Force (I got everything eventually dropped for her and she now has no criminal record). The woman was fingerprinted in under a minute. Basic, quick fingerprints with ink. But I guess you actually have to (allegedly) steal $17,000 from the taxpayers to get decent treatment. Wanting to carry a gun–now, that’s the real crime.
It’s really sickening. But this is gun control. They can’t outright take away the Second Amendment. So they’ll make it tougher and harder to exercise it. By design, they degrade you in processes like this.
They repeatedly wipe your fingers with this vomit-inducing, malodorous substance–so bad, I thought I was going to dry-heave, several times. After several handwashings, I still smell it and am thinking of soaking my hands in a giant bottle of vanilla, later this afternoon–a trick a fishmonger mentions in the charming movie, “Crossing DeLancey“. Let’s see if it works.
But the stench of this experience–where people who want to exercise their Second Amendment rights in Michigan are treated far worse than hardened, violent criminals–will remain starkly in my olfactory memory bank forever.
We’re from the government. And we’re here to help you.
I’m assuming you were at the Henry Ruff facility. They can be a little coarse with the public but look at the crustacians they deal with everyday. The computer printing machine is a tricky little form of torture in that you HAVE to leave your hand and fingers limp as a liberal from Ann Arbor so the deputy can get a good print on the lens. If you would’ve gotten the old fashioned ink print it would’ve processed with the rest of the mail sent out that day and eventually made its way to the correct desk. The computer is of course instant. Your fellow conservatives are glad you FINALLY got the cpl. You waited waaaaay too long. What if the massiah had done away with cpl’s already?
samurai on February 20, 2009 at 11:57 am