There is gun control and then there is gun control.
Does anyone here disagree with laws that make it illegal for convicted felons to purchase guns?
That is a form of gun control.
What about felons on parole? Should they able to legally purchase guns?
Just asking....
I do, and I know others do. If you can't be trusted with a firearm, you need to be in jail.
If you are out of jail, you have a right to protect yourself.
/johnny
Yup.
What about felons on parole? Should they able to legally purchase guns?
Absolutely.
The very idea of putting an individual on the streets while depriving him, under color of law, an otherwise lawful means of self defense, should be considered an act of barbaric cruelty on a par with dropping a child into an active dog-fighting ring.
If the individual is too dangerous to be allowed a gun, he's too dangerous to be allowed on the street.
Never mind the fact that the concept of "felony" has been expanded so far that my father, were he alive today, would be a serial habitual felon by the way he disposed of used oil after driveway oil changes from +/-1950 to +/-1972.
if they have already served their punishment, shouldn’t they get their rights back?
maybe they should spend more time behind bars if they are still a threat?
I do not believe in prison to punish, nor to rehabilitate. Prison, removing those convicted of crimes from society, should be done to protect the law abiding. Convicts should be released only when it is apparent they will never reoffend. If we cannot trust them with firearms, we cannot trust them with knives, bats, cars, fists, etc. Obviously, I believe many more criminals should remain in prison forever than currently do. I believe any violent crime committed against an innocent should bring an automatic life sentence with no parole, for the first offense.
Don't create confusion and uncertainty about the natural rights of free people by accepting the social engineering of utopian socialists.
Yep. I just can't go along with Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority, and hey, I have folks up the street I don't want anywhere close to an M79. I have a granddaughter to think about.
Just sayin'...
On the other hand, the local paper would probably call my home "an arsenal," or maybe even "a weapons cache."
Yeah, there is gun control, but there is the right to protect ourselves in the ten minutes it takes the cops to get there. And there's the right to protect ourselves from an out-of-control government, too.
The Second Amendment ain't about duck hunting, y'all.
Yes, there should be no restrictions or background checks; if you are such a menace to society that you are not permitted the means to defend yourself/family, then you should be dead or in jail. Also the parolee thing is a red herring; you don't need "laws" applicable to the general populace to do this for parolee's, it is one of many conditions of release unique to such persons.
You may wish to review what’s considered a “felony” before pursuing that question.