There is so much crap on here about his "criminal" past. There are hundreds of thousands of speeding citations issued in the US every day. I am sure that a significant portion of those people were carrying fire arms at the same time. In Montana I would suspect the number carrying is probably almost 50%. We have no gangs, fairly little crime period and yet many of us feel the need to exercise our right to carry arms.
When I am out of state and in some of our more infamous urban areas, I wouldn't be caught without my fire arm. 27 years ago when I was 25, I carried everywhere and loved shooting. I am much more reserved now, but when I travel I can't imagine not being armed for piece of mind.
When I was in my first 15 years of driving it was nothing for me to get 2 to 3 speeding citations a year. I didn't consider myself a criminal, I was just young and loved to drive(often fast). Was I dumb and naive, YES but was I a criminal, I don't think so. I am a solid Professional and take my responsibilities seriously and have never been arrested but by the unrealistic expectations of this board I would be relegated to manual labor jobs serving fries.
We obviously are in a far less tolerant society now than 30 years ago and as a result I would hope that young people like Gerald know that they have to toe a different line than I did and grow up faster than I did. I feel sorry for todays younger generations. They have to fix all the excess we oldsters are responsible for and are not allowed to be young and dumb like we were.
Sorry for the rant but so many of you are being disingenuous and hypocritical,
Walt