I am a volunteer for AFS, the leading international student exchange program for high school students. As a volunteer, I occasionally give rides to students to and from events, or from the airport when they arrive. I also participate in orientations for the students and host families, where I may lead discussion circles, or just participate for fun.
To protect our hosted students, who are between 16 and 18 years old when they arrive in the U.S., the United States Department of State requires that all AFS volunteers be registered anew every year. Part of the registration is a criminal background check. I just submitted my own information again to the company that performs that background check. AFS pays for this. The whole process takes about 3 minutes online.
To give rides and instruction to foreign high school students, the State Department requires that I undergo a criminal background check.
Yet, I can go to a gun show and purchase an assault rifle and a 100-round magazine without any background check. The State Department, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the ATF, they are all fine with this.
Twisted.
It is amazing and twisted. I had to have a background check and pee in a cup to work for the postal service. O.K. no “going postal” cracks.
How can the membership of the NRA be so short sighted, so selfish as to care more about themselves and their right to have military issue weaponry, than to show their remorse and concern over the brutal slaughter of innocent children in what should have been the sanctity of their classroom. Get over yourselves. No one wants your guns. We want our children, our society safe. That’s who should be protected.
Conducting criminal background check have become really important these days. With so much crime inhabiting in the society, it makes sense to be cautious and protect yourself and your family by spending some time and effort in conducting a thorough criminal background check for any new entrants to your social life.