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Dwhale, based on everything being as presented, you sound worthy of a second chance. For full disclosure, that was not my first perspective, but it sounds like you may have had a lapse in judgement. Barely over the limit, no problems with guns, a suspension by side effect. You were over the civilized line, but it doesn't sound like an aggravated case justifying a lifelong scarlet letter. Sin no more. None of us are perfect.

Don't let us down.

By contrast, one of our school board members was out enjoying back roads and a little too much white lightning one evening about 2 AM. A concerned motorist called 911 about his erratic driving. At the next town, a friendly local cop saw him cut and run with a clumsy u-turn, stopped him, determined he was plastered, and added a gun charge for the handgun bouncing around on the passenger's seat. Not concealed, not in a belt or shoulder holster, just rattling around loose in a pickup with an alleged drunk.

Local rumor maintains he was still turning the air blue when he got out of the lockup the next morning, which somehow reminds me of Milton on the beach in the final scenes in Office Space. With just one letter, he could shut that whole jail down, I'm sure.

The story is probably over as he's resigned from the school board and is moving on.

That is someone I'd like to see at some distance from the demography of lawful armed citizenry. He ain't fit, bless his heart.