Posted on 02/23/2013 9:21:46 AM PST by OKRA2012
“There are no Second Amendment rights being taken away here”
Under federal law, a felony conviction in any state makes one prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition.
It matters not if the felony was violent in nature or not, the conviction takes away Second Amendment rights.
I agree with your defacing comment, but if a person is charged with a felony there goes their 2A rights out the window. Spray painting graffiti is not something that should cause someone’s 2A rights to be taken away. This is just government finding more and more ways to disarm people.
Only if the damage exceeds $1500.
Yes the 2nd amendment does not prohibit felons from owning firearms, but until that injustice is rectified people who are convicted of felonies will have their 2nd amendment rights denied.
Once you begin defacing private property it is not all that difficult to cause more than $1500 in damage.
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