>What makes you think I’m not working to keep them in jail?
That you give no thought to the justness of the laws that put them in jail indicates that you have not given in-depth thought to the situation. That you refuse to recognize the myriad ways the right to keep and bear arms IS restricted, even to those who haven’t EVER been convicted (domestic abuse CHARGES) indicates that you have little to no insight in to how these injustices can be expanded or extended... including into other rights. That you refuse to acknowledge that if someone who has served their legal sentence they should have their legal slate ‘wiped clean’ indicates that you give little regard to Justice.
>Believe me, I am not the one who’s letting these guys out.
But you ARE the one who is advocating that they who have been released should be stripped of their rights.
>But I don’t think that refusing to rent a gun to an insane person or a felon is an injustice.
Again you refuse to accept the fact that ‘felon’ is so pervasive and widespread that YOU are likely a felon; read “Three Felonies a Day,” “Constitutional Chaos,” and watch these: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865# & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fZQWjDVKE&feature=related
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>They can’t buy one. Why should they be able to rent one?
They, technically, aren’t allowed to have ammo...
>As pointed out by one poster, they can’t even “possess” one, so it’s already illegal for them to rent one. The issue is not whether they should be able to rent a gun, but rather it’s an enforcement issue.
Wrong. The issue is that we have created a whole CLASS of people who have NO 2nd Amendment Rights. Some of these prohibitions were retroactive, ex post facto; consider the felons who already “did their time” prior to the passage of the “ex-felons can’t have firearms law.” It certainly is a Bill of Attainder. And you have utterly failed to address the practice of “promoting” misdemeanors to felonies.
>Should the range be required to do a background check?
No.
>Actually, I would not even say that. Should the range be able to do a background check?
They can already do that, if they wanted to spend the monies to do so. {Private Investigators are an option.}
>Give the range the ability to require a background check, and I bet a buck almost every range would do so. Believe me, the range owner doesn’t want to rent guns to insane people or felons, either.
I’d take that bet; you fail to consider public and semi-public ranges.