Why not? After Florida passed its weapons laws, crime against its residents went way down but crime against tourists had a massive increase. I would have a rental stand at airports to rent out firearms and ammo and have some instant training when someone gets off the plane.
And as for felons who completed their sentence (paid their WHOLE “debt to society”), before the GCA ‘68 abomination. could and did get the right to keep and bear arms restored. Which was as it SHOULD be. If you can’t trust them to behave, then DON’T grant them parole... Children get to own firearms at the discretion of the parents and the insane and feeble-minded would have their right tempered by a judge, AFTER their due process hearings. Any more of your idiocy I can debunk for you, bobby???
Offer them a short course on U.S. History and let them vote, too.
"before the GCA ‘68 abomination. could and did get the right to keep and bear arms restored."
Before the GCA, yes, felons were allowed to have guns. But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Lewis v. United States (1980), that the right was never protected for felons.
"If you can’t trust them to behave, then DON’T grant them parole"
We trust them enough to parole them, but we don't trust them enough to parole them with a gun. Simple enough for most to understand.
"Children get to own firearms at the discretion of the parents"
Whatever. That doesn't mean their fundamental, constitutional right to keep and bear them is protected. It isn't.
"and the insane and feeble-minded would have their right tempered by a judge"
They may have their condition declared by a judge, but the judge does not make the determination whether they may own a gun. That decision is made by the legislature.
We need to get something clear here. I'm referring to the constitutional protection of a right, not the right itself. If a right is not protected, that does NOT mean you don't have it or that the activity is prohibited.
For example, the RKBA of California citizens is not protected -- neither by the U.S. Constitution nor the California State Constitution. Yet millions of Californians legally own guns. And they have the right to own them.