Felons ostensibly should be allows to have firearms in prison.
If you drove to work today, you probably committed five felonies before you got in the parking lot. On your return trip home, you will commit seven.
I don't see how that is even possible for the average person going to work and back.
It is a chilling, sobering concept that rights can be taken away. If a rationale can be constructed to take away a felon's rights (and not all rights, only the ones we want to take away to make us feel better or think we can manage him easier), then a rationale can be constructed to take away certain particular rights from anybody for any feel-good reason. At that point they aren't rights anymore--they are privileges bestowed and regulated by the state.
They weren't being hypocritical. They just didn't think 200 years later people would take the BoR so literally considering the reality that always existed, before, during and after its creation.Remember that the Founding Fathers were part of taking way people's rights since before there was a Constitution and after there was a Constitution.
I view the lifetime ban as part of the sentence. I don't see any problem with it. Essentially for that right you can never discharge itThe way I see it is that a man has paid his dues once he is truly free again, but I do see a problem with folks labeled as career criminals regaining weapons rights, especially in violent crimes where weapons were used.
That's pretty much what I said. If the sentence includes Civil Death (loss of certain civil rights) then the "debt" is NOT "paid off" simply by serving time.Vern, you and others have mentioned this notion of having paid the debt to society, but part of that debt includes the disenfranchisement of specific rights which doesn't get paid of by the simple prison sentence. It is part of the penalty for being convicted of a felony.
Then what is the basis for arresting, trying and punishing criminals?Rights are not granted by any government, and should not be capable of being taken away by any government. Privileges are another story.