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