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Thanks for both your responses. I'm still struggling with the issue of rehabilitation and further punishment myself. Guns are only one part; felons could be prevented from voting as well. Robert, on the issue of parole, that's clear in my mind: the convict accepts additional restrictions in exchange for an abbreviated sentence.

It's a really tough issue, that's for sure. Put another way, is a convicted felon any less entitled to their first amendment rights - and if so - what differentiates the 1st from the 2nd Amendment? I don't have the answers, but I think they're valid questions.

Yeah, You fall in nearly the same category as me...I don't like the system and there are individual cases particularly the old A Squared gun and bullet company case where Federales TOTALLY went beyond the pale of any legal process. I kind of have faith in John Ashcroft supporting the 2nd Amendment or I wouldn't be so relaxed these days...the RKBA is why I'm a FReeper...Shot all my life...feared the law because they could take my right to a firearm away...

I'd like little old ladies and children to be able to go anywhere in Seattle without fear because they were in the greatest country that has ever existed and all good men and women carried concealed without fear of unjust prosecution after a shooting...Instead, I carry concealed...watch for trouble and pray that I get a good defense lawyer and an ethical judge if I ever have to use lethal force on a criminal...I resent that I have had to prepare myself to be Bleeding before I will shoot back to try and avoid being charged with anything, but I hate courtrooms and figure I can take a knife stab or one bullet before I open fire and turn off the attacker like a switch(I hope)...absurdity is the word, here.

Somebody fix the legal system PUHLEASE!!!