[lOKKI]

Without wanting to attack you personally, I think that it's a fair statement to say that most people who have been convicted of a felony are, at a minimum, guilty of having exercised very bad judgment. This morning on NPR as I was driving to the office (sigh) I heard a member of an activist group which advocates making it easier for felons to vote, claim that Florida's difficult rules for qualifying ex-felons to vote had probably changed the outcome of the national election four years ago.

The thought that felons (see my comments about bad judgment, above) are an important voting group for the Democratic party disturbs me. I don't want our elections decided by a group of people who have demonstrated very bad judgment in their affairs

[Graybeard58]

I think that it's a fair statement to say that most people who have been convicted of a felony are, at a minimum, guilty of having exercised very bad judgment.

Judgement is a subjective thing. In my opinion 47,000,000 people were guilty of bad judgement in the last election

In my case it wasn't so much a matter of bad judgement as it was of simple forgetfulness.

I had been target practing (legally) and forgot that I still had a hand gun in my coat pocket. It was small caliber(.32) and I forgot that it was in my heavy coat pocket. I was sitting in a resturaunt, someone saw it or the bulge and called the cops.

I don't deny my responsibility or my guilt. Again, I'm thankful that Illinois allows me to vote.