I am talking about violent felons who use guns in the commission of the specific crimes they commit. Especially if they injure or murder someone during those crimes or attempting to flee.
They have proven by abusing the right, they cannot be trusted with it. Unless they are executed for those crimes, if they have a chance to be let out, they should not be allowed to have guns again.
You haven’t cited the period you mentioned when those conditions were applied and additionally where they were applied.
By stating, “Be careful what you wish for.”, consider that when you codify the death penalty and its execution time to cover a broader range of offenders, the likelihood of violent resistance to apprehension by authorities will result along with the danger to the general populace suffering from the activity. “Top of the world Ma! Top of the world!” (Cagney- “White Heat”)
All of the criterion necessary to sentence offenders for the crimes they commit has been well thought out and recorded. Application of the appropriate sentencing guidelines often falls short of the recommendations due in large part to judicial mental meanderings. But after a man has not been executed for his crime because execution would be too extreme a punishment, and he is released into society after serving time in prison to repay his debt, his rights, all of them, should be fully restored. Doing so reinforces the notion that he has paid his debt, realized the error of his ways and is now free to live a life of benefit to himself, his family and the society he has rejoined, without the stigma of his prior conviction impairing his ability to persevere and succeed. People err. Sometimes grievously. Some so greatly that execution is warranted. But I would sooner deal with a possible repeat offender than sacrifice his right to self-defense and the defense of members of his family in the event he had reformed completely. But then I am a capable man and without fear.
The State cannot solve all of our problems and is far more involved in our affairs than our health as a society allows and calling for another law that will be arbitrarily interpreted and applied will prove more confounding than our present situation.
Restricting firearms possession restricts freedom and our ability to defend our lives and those of our loved ones. Never mind the defense of our country. We’ve already lost that.