Posted on 06/24/2016 1:04:33 PM PDT by Zakeet
As congressional Democrats spent the week pressing for the passage of new gun control legislation, violent felons in Virginia were able to take steps towards having their right to own a firearm restored thanks to action taken by the state’s Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
When McAuliffe restored the voting rights for 206,000 felons in a move critics say was politically motivated, he also opened the door for those felons to have their right to own a firearm restored.
Previously, felons would individually have to petition the executive branch to have their civil rights restored. Petitioners would have to fill out an application to the secretary of the commonwealth and submit a letter to the governor explaining why they deserve to have their rights restored.
Decisions were made on a case-by-case basis. This was abandoned when McAuliffe restored the rights for both violent and nonviolent felons, eliminating the need for any application.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
... this comes only weeks after the dumb butt Clinton protege Donk tried to limit the number of guns that a law-abiding citizen can purchase in a month to one and ramp up background checks ... beautifully illustrating the Democrat Party principal that nothing is more important than increasing number of people who will vote for them!
So law-abiding gun owners are supposed to have their gun rights diminished, why violent felons are going to have their gun rights expanded...? Wha..? What, POSSIBLY, could go wrong?
Is the 2nd Amendment a right or a privilege?
Very bad news. FTR I do actually support restoring civil rights, including both voting and gun rights, to those citizens who made a one time, non-violent mistake more than ten years ago and with no problems since. But violent felons... no.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-voting-rights.aspx
...In 38 states and the District of Columbia, most ex-felons automatically gain the right to vote upon the completion of their sentence.
In some states, ex-felons must wait for a certain period of time after the completion of their sentence before rights can be restored.
In some states, an ex-felon must apply to have voting rights restored...
Any free man should be armed if he so chooses. Anyone who should not be armed should not be free.
Is the 2nd Amendment a right or a privilege?
you don’t need to know why but I agree.
it’s a right unless through your own actions it becomes a privilege.
Did you write that? It's brilliant. If you did you should be in Congress.
So what about the 1st Amendment? Can you lose that too? How about the 4th & 5th?
uhhh YES and you should if yer ted bundy, john wayne gacy and etc.... what are you saying? give em back their rights?
and welcome...
See in the past many of these violent felons would have been executed or loced up for life. Gun rights were a non issue for them b/c they were dead or were going to die in jail.
These people would have never had a chance to get a gun ever again. And rightly so.
Actually I’ve been saying for years now that anyone who should not be armed should not be running around loose. There’s no constitutional exception for freed felons or crazies. But you’re the first to suggest I serve in congress! Or did I miss the < /sarc > tag?
;^)
These violent felons in the past would never have been free. Executed or to die in jail as lifers.
Perpetual punishments, even after a person has “paid their debt to society,” are patently unfair. In the Old West, for instance, upon release from prison a former inmate was given his guns back.
A person who was once a violent felon won’t necessarily be one again. But if they are, they need to go back to prison, not be perpetually punished.
Why not require a person released from prison to be compelled to incriminate himself? Why not force him to go to the church of the government’s choice?
No. We need people in Congress who truly understand the Constitution, and you seem to fit the bill.
I'm tired of all these knee jerk types who are clueless.
If the 2nd Amendment is a RIGHT no man should be deprived it. Anyone who thinks active criminals can't get guns because of gun laws is a fool, but some poor bastard who got caught with $50 worth of coke when he was a young man is still deprived.
Scalia would agree that rights are not unlimited and should be limited in various forms.
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