License as a Benefit????

[tomharkness]

So far, I have been fingerprinted for:

• 1. being a security officer
  2. my security officer instructor license.
  3. my concealed handgun license
  4. my concealed handgun license instructor license.
  5. the Department of Health and Human Services for DMAT.
  6. and now, because I also happen to be a Nurse.

Can someone please tell me why they cannot just use my CHL as proof of a "Background check"???

If fingerprints don't change, then why do they need to take new ones every 30 days?

[yerasimos]

So far, I have been fingerprinted for:

• 1. being a security officer
  2. my security officer instructor license.
  3. my concealed handgun license
  4. my concealed handgun license instructor license.
  5. the Department of Health and Human Services for DMAT.
  6. and now, because I also happen to be a Nurse.

Can someone please tell me why they cannot just use my CHL as proof of a "Background check"???

If fingerprints don't change, then why do they need to take new ones every 30 days?

Because today in 21st century, enlightened, post-Columbine/Virginia Tech, post-9/11 Amerika, you are always considered "suspect" until you are "cleared", "inspected" or "screened" ......unless or you are one of the VIPs on the secret list that the general population is not supposed to know about, and a CHL does not get you on that list.

[Shorts]

So far, I have been fingerprinted for:

• 1. being a security officer
  2. my security officer instructor license.
  3. my concealed handgun license
  4. my concealed handgun license instructor license.
  5. the Department of Health and Human Services for DMAT.
  6. and now, because I also happen to be a Nurse.

Can someone please tell me why they cannot just use my CHL as proof of a "Background check"???

If fingerprints don't change, then why do they need to take new ones every 30 days?

It's how you're kept tabs on

[5thGenTexan]

Because a photo ID can be bogus but those swirls & whirls on your fingers can't. I'm justt as happy in post 9-11 and with all the people floating around this country with bogus purchase ID's that to get a license
of any kind issued they at least check better than the credit card morons that it is really me applying.

Now if we could clean up the holes at the border and get the ID theft people all cleared out, then I might feel differantly. Sorry but I just found out yesterday while shopping at one of the national chain stores according to there database I am in NJ and I don't even remember ever going there, and we pull our credit reports real regular.

[roberts]

If fingerprints don't change, then why do they need to take new ones every 30 days?

Different licenses. A better question is why Texas needs fingerprints for renewals when other states don't.

[C-dub]

If fingerprints don't change, then why do they need to take new ones every 30 days?

Different licenses. A better question is why Texas needs fingerprints for renewals when other states don't.

Yeah!

[92f-fan]

its likely because the systems dont talk to each other- wont share info

[yerasimos]

its likely because the systems dont talk to each other- wont share info

I thought about that as well, and how our "betters" and their systems are not as smart as they think they are or they want us to believe they are. And this is the practical aspect of the answer. The rest of the answer includes a basic function creep/will-to-power and an implicit consensus that everyone is assumed to be a liar, the bogeyman, a fingertip-scarred narcotraficante, or whatever, until their story "checks out", a database somewhere corroborates the answer or spits out a number, or someone displays a laminated piece of plastic, provides a urine sample, takes off their footwear, etc, on demand. Welcome to the new-normal despotism.

On a brighter note, though, smallpox has been mostly wiped out (except for a few small stashes held in reserve by the same sophisticated and well-meaning folks with those really whiz-bang databases . . .), agriculture has been greatly mechanized, moneylending with interest is now mainstream and legal, and the sheriff no longer demands the first night with the bride from a newlywed couple.