As the father of a journalist, I can assure you this is not true.
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As a person who has many contacts with several journalists from LA times and the struggles they’ve had (along with every other major newspaper in the country) since click bait journalism has become the norm I will respectfully disagree with your father.
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Then you’re reading the wrong media. Just sticking with bikes, let’s take a publication from your homeland…CyclingTips has a couple of fantastic journalists who write amazing pieces. Sure, there’s a lot of clickbait and advertising to pay the bills, but when you find a good piece by a good writer, you know journalism is not dead
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I am the father….
I am not saying that the issues you raise don’t exist, but the idea that journalism is dead is simply wrong.
Here is a great example of how local journalism exposed massive fraud at a local hospital.
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I think in Texas you can be charged with murder and still purchase a gun. Don’t quite me on it. I read it in another forum.
There are multiple states, including Texas, that allow convicted felons to purchase firearms after a cooling off period.
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I’m probably the wrong person to @ considering I’ve never done what you’re asking to change and agree with you
18 U.S.C. 921(a)(20) is your answer for that.
" Any conviction which has been expunged, or set aside or for which a person has been pardoned or has had civil rights restored shall not be considered a conviction for purposes of this chapter, unless such pardon, expungement, or restoration of civil rights expressly provides that the person may not ship, transport, possess, or receive firearms"
No I didn’t know this off the top of my head and wasn’t entirely sure if this was just a states not bothering to enforce federal things or if there was actually a channel for not being impacted by the federal laws.
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I (along with many others, and it appears including yourself) read the “right” media. My point is the majority of people (when compared to 10-15 years ago) do not. The standard level of journalism across all mediums, whether it be TV, cable, newspaper or online has shifted toward sensationalistic, opinion-based, polarizing bias. While publications like Reuters, and Associated Press where considered the norm, they are now incredibly rare.
While still reputable; the business models of NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post and many others have had to transform themselves to compete with what’s left of an ever diminishing revenue stream. This is well documented by journalists themselves, from these very publications.
The harsh reality is today, the majority of people get their news from Facebook. Not NPR.
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Totally agree, I just don’t agree that we should dump the baby out with the bath water. Journalism is no more dead than rock and roll. You just have to look for it and wade through a lot of sludge to get to the blue water.
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It’s a tongue in cheek expression. One that’s perhaps not suitable for an online forum. 
Yeah, but you said it to a guy who’s kid is a journalist.
Good Lord. Yes, I initially said “Journalism is dead”. I then countered at great length about the smaller pool of quality journalism compared to a decade ago. I made that abundantly clear in several responses. You’re cherry picking one sentence out of ten paragraphs. So, just for you, the kid, and the father. In my opinion, while quality journalism kicks on, the vast majority is not any where near what it used to be. I stand by those words, you’re more than welcome to disagree. It’s an opinion, nothing more, nothing less.
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Can we just let that OT element go and return to the main topic, please?
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YES PLEASE.
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for NON VIOLENT convictions is what you conveniently left out. convicted for murder? it’s all over for your gun rights in all 50 states. convicted of writing illegal checks 10 years ago? you’re ok in SOME states after a “cooling off period”
I didn’t “conveniently” leave out anything. Man, why have so many people become so aggressive on this forum?
Anyway, I just did a quick search, and I can’t find anything that says the law is different in Texas for certain felonies. They all just say that five years after release, you can own a firearm. I believe you when you say it, but I can’t find it. Could you share a link?
The requisites for an Article 48.05 application are:
- The federal or foreign offense must not involve violence or threat of violence, drugs or firearms;
- The sentence for the conviction must be completely served;
there are a LOT more stipulations but you can read it yourself. basically anything with domestic violence, threats against a child, etc all mean you have no right to petition for gun rights restoration
idk about aggressive, just correcting the narrative
Thanks for sharing. I’m not a lawyer, just a guy who googles stuff., and everything I find says a felon can possess a firearm in Texas five years after serving their sentence, with no caveats. I don’t know if you’re a lawyer, but if so, are gun rights outside the “restoration of rights” articles you shared? Just trying to wrap my head around why so many lawyers online say “felonies” with no caveat (and I can’t find a single exception), and how the legal info you shared refers to “restoration of rights”, but never specifically to firearms. Not trying to argue, just trying to be sure I understand the law and don’t repeat misinformation.
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it’s a fair question. 48.05 “restores all civil rights which have been forfeited in the state of Texas”. In reality there are four major ones: 1. the right to run for federal office or be employed in a federal capacity, 2. the right to serve on a federal jury, 3. the right to vote and 4. the right to own or possess a firearm.
idk why there are no caveats when the availability of this petition is reported in media, but i’d suspect it’s to make everyone think “felons” can get guns legally and stir the pot/fear mongering. not only is it VERY misleading, the actual application process for the petition to restore civil rights is rather difficult and burdensome, which it should be. you essentially need to be pardoned the local sheriff of the town in which he/she resides, the entirety of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, and if he/she gets past that hurdle, they need to be pardoned by the governor of Texas himself…
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