Posted on 03/31/2014 2:54:44 PM PDT by neverdem
Are you really proposing that convicted “hit men” be released from incarceration “after a decent interval”, with the proviso that they be strictly prohibited from possession of firearms? Would we also tell them they’re strictly prohibited from killing other people?
And are you really trying to draw an equivalence between posssessing the means to inflict lethal injury to choice of a profession?
I’m telling you that violent felons are violent men, and that many felons do what they do and a jail sentence is a part of that business, a break from a business that they return to when the sentence is over.
If you know violent ex cons, then you are aware of the effect of not being able to have a gun has on them, it greatly complicates their business dealings, and they really don’t like to travel with, or carry one concealed.
The left wants them to vote, you want them to be able to carry guns on their rounds and to rebuild their armed fortress and circle of armed ex con friends that they conduct business from.
I’m not so motivated to worry about ex-cons voting and getting back their guns. I have have had many friends in my life that I worry about what happens if they get busted with the guns that they keep hidden away, and some of those I would allow to have their gun rights, and voting rights restored if I were King, but it was never enough for me to want to make a blanket call, sometimes I think you guys see an accountant, or tax dodger when you think felon, rather than what kind of violent psychopaths and sociopaths really make up most of them.
Buck up my friends!!! You can still commit a truly violent crime and if/when you are paroled, you get to vote!!
Jay walk, no guns. Murder, put on your voting shoes. Got it?
If they’ve been convicted as violent felons, they’ve already proven they don’t care about what laws mandate and prohibit.
So you parole a violent felon, and tell him he’s not allowed to possess firearms.
Do you really think he’s going to obey that rule?
Like I said, you must not know many of these people on a personal basis, that you think the severity of being a felon with a gun doesn’t affect most of them, is just more evidence that you are just arguing for something that you don’t really know about.
I take it you support the left’s goal to get them voting also.
You’re right that I don’t know any violent felons.
Your other conjecture is not supported by the facts in evidence.
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