Restoration of Second Amendment Rights

[Clock]

A group of felons I'd not be comfortable giving their 2nd amendment rights to is white collar criminals who have committed crimes in the seven figure range, often hurting a lot of small investors. A lot of these people will serve relatively short sentences (3-5 years) in by prison standards safe & comfortable Federal prisons.

By contrast some felons wind up with longer sentences in fairly harsh state prisons, for attempting to steal much smaller amounts of money. If people in this group used violence, I'd say no restoration of 2nd amendment rights.

Many of people in the 1st group have actually done more harm to more people then their sentences reflect. As a matter of fairness, I don't feel the 1st group has been punished enough and I wouldn't want to cut them any breaks.

These are onions based solely on feelings and I'm not making any pretense to logic. Just my feelings.

 

[Hunter Customs]

I still believe and feel that after your rights are restored (sentence served in full) as a citizen, you should be fully restored.

I agree with the above statement.

Here's a thought to think about "Don't judge me by my past, I don't live there anymore".

Best Regards
Bob Hunter

 

[ATN082268]

How many armed robberies are committed with a vote?

It depends on who is elected In all seriousness though, once someone serves his/her sentence, then they should have the same rights as anyone else. That comes with the caveat of a sufficient sentence to begin with and an even greater sentence with a repeat offense. I'm all for punishment fitting the crime but not in addition to permanently taking away someone's right(s) found in the Bill of Rights. Can you imagine, for example, if someone was released from prison and the courts upholding a lifetime ban of free speech on that person? Absurd.

 

[kilimanjaro]

Suppose Hillary Clinton is convicted of a felony this year, do you think she should be able to hold public office again after her sentence is up? Lobby Congress? Hold a professional license and practice law?

What's the point of the laws if you get to go right back where you started and pick up where you left off?

If you don't like what happens to you when you become a felon, don't commit felonies.

 

[ATN082268]

What's the point of the laws if you get to go right back where you started and pick up where you left off?

You don't start off where you left off unless you discount stuff like the time you spent in prison, money spent defending yourself, bleak future employment prospects (non-legal bias), etc. And what we are talking about here is an additional legal penalty on top of that, which also happens to be a ban on a Constitutional Right (the 2nd Amendment). And if the government doesn't adequately fund a agency to restore the rights they took away from you, then it is effectively a lifetime ban. And as a side note, you don't have to even commit a felony to have your gun rights revoked, permanently.

 

[2ndsojourn]

Without looking, (yeah, bad idea) I always thought that it was written somewhere that if you commit certain crimes, you become prohibited from owning firearms for life. Sometimes voting rights too. So that makes it a law, and is part of the punishment for committing certain crimes, in addition to serving any prison time. Just because you finished serving your time, doesn't erase the rest of the punishment. That's the law, now. And there's a procedure for changing the law, but don't expect that to happen with the likes of Diane Feinstein, Corey Booker, Harry Reid and their ilk getting re-elected for a career in politics.