Posted on 01/18/2012 5:47:31 AM PST by marktwain
Excellent point. I'm using this
yes, they should. Once they have served their time, they should be restored, not marked forever like in some dictatorship communist hell hole.
Photo ID for voting or gun buying article here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2834344/posts
They should not be allowed to vote.
Santorum was pandering to the black community when he suggested this.
Repeat offenders, anyone?
Some things one does have consequences. A few felons go on to live good lives and stay out of prison. That should be its own reward.
But they gave up the right to vote.
As for guns, you know the bumper sticker.
Unless post-prison rights to gun ownership, voting, residency, etc is stipulated during sentencing (or part of any agreed upon parole conditions)...then any additional constraints to Constitutional rights amounts to double jeopardy and is unconstitutional.
I would say that this should be judged on a case by case basis, since some of the people affected by this seem to be guilty of minor crimes.
But I don’t think felons, guilty of murder, manslaughter, armed robber, drug dealing, rape, molestation, etc. should have any privileges granted to them.
Same here with my brother. No vote/no guns because of a DUI which he served time for/went to rehab for. (One of the DUI’s occurred when he was SITTING in his car in his own driveway- shrew ex-wife called the cops). Thankfully he is recovered and helping others through AA. In the meantime, he can’t vote or own a gun. But illegals can do both.
I always thought that one’s “debt to society” was fulfilled upon completion of one’s sentence. That being the case, all rights should be restored. If we are so worried about a violent crime being committed by the excon due to his violent past that we keep him stripped of his rights even though he has completed his sentence then we should have hanged him from the getgo.
Are you sure? The NRA has supported a lot of gun control bills over the years (usually on the "lesser of two evils" theory). I suspect that Senator Santorum was following NRA instructions.
You choose to seize the basic rights of citizens because you don’t trust them. Think about who else the govenment can choose not to trust.
I’m well aware that most of them will vote dem, but we don’t have a right to seize their vote because we don’t agree with them.
How on earth did they do this study? An early form of “gun walker”? Who was their test group?
If someone cannot be trusted with full citizenry upon release, they should not be released amongst full citizens.
Bingo !
Guns in unqualified hands may be more dangerous to individual citizens, but votes in unqualified hands are a danger to the entire republic. I believe the voting results for the last 75 years makes my point.
The way it was written it would have ended all private sales of guns. Everything bought or sold would have to go through a FFL dealer.
The NRA fought against the law. Santorum lied.
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