Sorry I wasn't clearer. The topic makes me a little testy, and I don't communicate well when I'm testy.Okay, I think I was misreading you.
Sorry I wasn't clearer. The topic makes me a little testy, and I don't communicate well when I'm testy.Okay, I think I was misreading you.
Yeah, every time this topic comes up, I cringe.Sorry I wasn't clearer. The topic makes me a little testy, and I don't communicate well when I'm testy.
agree.They would have to prove they deserve that right restored.
I prefer not to live in a theoretical world.
The only problem with that philosophy is when Soros- funded DAs are recommending reduced sentencing or plea deals for violent criminals.
What about a long kitchen knife or a baseball bat? Can he buy those other frequently used tools of murder? If so, no concerns about him using them?
I hear ya DocIf they are free to walk the street, they are free to own a gun. Sure. But most of the folks who go through the revolving door SHOULD NOT be free to walk the street. Until we fix that, this clean slate stuff is premature.
It would need to comply with their own Bruen standard.I think the Supreme Court will come up with an answer with the current Rahimi and Range cases, and a couple more that are in the system already. My guess will be they will come up with a compromise that prohibits convicted violent offenders in some fashion while non violent offenders of malum prohibitum statutes will be able to legally posses firearms.
Eating one right now brother. I'll have one in your honor too.I hear ya Doc
Not the real world, so I'll amend it to 'if you're free to walk the streets, you're free to eat a crabcake'
Problem is the morons that run the system that lets murderers out in a few months, are the same morons coming up with more and more steps for the rest of us to legally buy a gun.For non-violent offenders... I don't think I have a problem with this. For violent offenders... not so much. Yes, if they serve their debt to society, their rights should be restored. But has a murderer or rapist who gets a 30 yr sentence and serves 6-8 really paid their debt. Not in my book.
If they are free to walk the street, they are free to own a gun. Sure. But most of the folks who go through the revolving door SHOULD NOT be free to walk the street. Until we fix that, this clean slate stuff is premature.
Violent offenders of malum in se statutes have been disarmed throughout history even literately back when drawn and quartered was still a punishment. It is the defining of a felon as convicted of any crime in any jurisdiction that the sentence could be over one year that collects all the Martha Stewart's and Bryan Range's.It would need to comply with their own Bruen standard.
Maybe there is such an analog.