I'd take credit if it had been meant as a wiggle...I'm sorry if you took it that I would accuse you of BEING liberal...I Don't now, nor did I EVER think that of you(And even if I suspected, I wouldn't accuse you of it face to face...its the lowest form of humanity in my book!!!
I would wager my life that I am infinitely more familiar with the "tough guys" than you are. What are you...some kind of counselor or cop or prison hack?
Two major metropolitan police Swat Teams train at my Silat kick boxing dojo...10 years back I used to work with dope dealers and alcoholics for two years struggling to make an honest(I paid taxes on the income but don't buy circus tickets to support PBA's-RIPOFF!-...little tip out of respect for you;) living in a boiler room phone fundraising gig.
Whatever....it doesn't make you an authority
Also routinely hired ex felons on their first 6 months work release program mentoring their release from supervised housing...Howse that Crow tasting WD.?
If folks aren't capable of enjoying all their rights after time and paper served then we should rethink sentencing policy.
Sure!!! I'm all for letting the small time marijuana growers and dealers out and nailing them for tax evasion...The bad guys can be kept locked up in their place, longer...We're in agreement here...
Now for all you law and order gung ho types out there who think prisoners don't get time enough then you haven't a clue about Fed time.
Listened to it described in agonizing detail from a guy I believe was railroaded by the government...
He started drinking the night he got out of UA testing...Slipped off to another state...never to be heard from again...Had a familys' loving support, too...
I share some commonality with you SLS but I fear the gun laws more than I fear the guns or the criminals. I know my way around guns and well....criminals...I know my way around them as well.
I agree about the Brady Bill and harassment of legit gun dealers in SPADES!!! WD...But somewhere someone HAS to stand up and say, "HEY convicted violent offender!...You committed a Felony"..."You gambled your right to vote and the right to own a firearm for money and a moment of power over a fellow American, and YOU LOST" for the good of the rest of the people who aren't prepared to defend themselves...If you want to see me get bristly start advocating laws that don't protect the stupid liberal's and the weak's physical safety... Really, Best Regards. So how is it you know so much about ex cons? I was totally ripped off by an ex cop who did time that he said he was framed for...Absolute crack addicted psycho that I lost $4000 to in an attempt to rehabilitate him...What do you know that I don't? No satire at all...just willing to listen to your experience...
My feelings on violent criminals are that they will get guns regardless of laws or consequences and I'm all for enhancement for repeat offenders with guns commttting another crime. I simply prefer to enfranchise the mostly non-violent felons we're releasing daily when their paper is over if they have done their bit. I'm not sure how to disenfranchise some and enfranchise others....it's complicated which is why our pols simply take the easy route and disenfranchise every ex-felon.....which by the way is a relatively new idea in most areas....within the past 50 years or so. They really jacked it up in the 90s Federally. Now folks can be revoked for restraining orders, assault charges, even the TX case where the guy was arrested for bullets in Mexico.....I think in Maryland they are now even trying to declare one's gun rights void if one has too many misdemeanor traffic violations. All of this bothers me greatly. As I said..it is no slap on the wrist for infractions even if they appear benign to you and I.
I am willing to offer that we have more in common than not but that the points on which we disagree are contentious. That's ok...that's just part of being here.
I was amused earlier at the mention of liberal and naive. I'm usually accused of being a racist on Southern or race threads. A gun freak ....militia nut on RKBA stuff...you know the drill....folks like me are considered the real problem in this country by the media.....angry white boys with guns. We're the conventional bad guys. You are the first to accuse me of being (sort of I know)liberal or naive. I did not think you were stupid but it just shocked me. Need i say I'm pro-death penalty as well.
I have a gnawing fear that firearms are all that will protect us from our enemies whether homegrown or foreign (and governmental tyranny)and I want my guns unencumbered and I think in conclusion I'm willing to accept more risk to enjoy that liberty than some. But don't worry....my side on this issue has a lot of catching up to do. There are so many holes in the FMCDH dyke and this guns for ex-felons is merely a trickle so it isn't a priority for many and probably political suicide for any pol right now. That's the problem with so many laws...they are like taxes...damned hard to repeal.
Have a good evening and I leave celebrating our common ground rather than fixating over our differences.
Regards