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To: marktwain

Personally, I believe that once a person has fully finished his sentence he should have all his rights restored. It’s not like laws banning convicted felons from owning guns ever stopped a felon from getting one.


4 posted on 04/05/2011 5:46:12 AM PDT by Seruzawa (Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for good a blaster kid.)
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To: Seruzawa

Funny how the Left works hard to have felons voting rights automatically restored but felon gun rights...not so much. Makes sense since a person with lawless tendencies will gravitate towards the lawless party. (Here in Richmond we have many felons who get arrested again in possession of a firearm...go figure.)


9 posted on 04/05/2011 6:08:16 AM PDT by dogcaller
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To: Seruzawa
Personally, I believe that once a person has fully finished his sentence he should have all his rights restored. It’s not like laws banning convicted felons from owning guns ever stopped a felon from getting one.

I agree 100%!! What happened to the old saying, "He paid his debt to society?" I mean, if he is still a danger to society, then his butt will be killed or locked back up when he screws up - sorry to say, but he has the right to be an idiot and continue to do the things that might get him re-arrested!

But, as far as being an "ex-convict" causing you to loose all your rights - well, that is just STUPID! For some reason, our laws allow people to become "less human" once they have spent time behind bars! And for anyone that says, "Well he is a danger to society!" Well, so are all the criminals that have NOT been caught - so how do we remove their rights to gun's to keep us "safe?"

As a civilized society, we MUST allow people who have been convicted to re-assemble into a normal, law-abiding lifestyle, if we ever really expect them to truly change and become apart of our law-abiding society (IOW, we have to embrace them, if we expect them to embrace US!)!
10 posted on 04/05/2011 6:15:36 AM PDT by ExTxMarine ("Convictions are more dangerous to truth than lies." ~ F. Nietzsche)
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To: Seruzawa

Personally, I believe that once a person has fully finished his sentence he should have all his rights restored.

Charles Manson and Ted the uni bomber agree.


19 posted on 04/05/2011 10:08:58 AM PDT by Vaduz
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