[Mr Apple]

IYAS9YAS, what if with enough ex-cons voting, it tips the results in a referendum - changing the penalities for bank robbery for instance -to just 60 days in jail? Or, changing the penalities for the guy who rapes your mother on the kitchen floor IYAS9YAS - to just 90 days in jail. You ok with that?

[IYAS9YAS]

IYAS9YAS, what if with enough ex-cons voting, it tips the results in a referendum - changing the penalities for bank robbery for instance -to just 60 days in jail? Or, changing the penalities for the guy who rapes your mother on the kitchen floor IYAS9YAS - to just 90 days in jail. You ok with that?

If that is the law. Then yes. Again, if you cannot trust these people in society based on their crimes and the punishment paid, then why are they living in society to begin with, and not still incarcerated? If you do not allow those who have paid for their crimes to live freely, then you create second-class status, and a subset of society that is no longer equal under the law.

[knarf]

crunch the numbers .... forget the rhetoric about "all those" or "if every" .. or whatever

The released felonious criminal population compared to those that have no record are, by and large, very small

Laws placed upon laws within laws have made everybody a felon and all that is needed is for you to get caught and be tried

You may stay out of prison because yje charge was bogus ... but you're now a felon

THAT was the intent of that law passed in 1968 ( I forget what it is called ) ... but it's the one that forbade my 2nd ammendment rights ...

Which I don't need ...

'cause my guns lay at the bottom of a lake

[Mr Apple]

What cha say about that IYAS9YAS? Are there any posters here still in favor of allowing excons the right to vote considering what is posted in #51??
Now, what if such a referendum happens to pass. And in an election it passes...do we want our mothers to be raped on the floor - with the penalty being just 90 days in jail? - - - I think Not!!