I wrote it in response to your post 41, discussing the process by which rights are legitimately abridged.
My intent was to remark on the anomaly that we don’t “trust” released felons with guns, but we do “trust” them with knives.
“My intent was to remark on the anomaly that we don’t “trust” released felons with guns, but we do “trust” them with knives.”
Gotcha, I guess it is strange but then where would it end. Baseball bats? Box cutters? Almost anything could be fashioned into a weapon. I feel that private ownership of a firearm is a civil right enumerated by the 2A. I believe that the 5th and 14th gives the government the power to take away those enumerated rights from people convicted of crimes. That is why I personally believe that after being convicted of a serious crime you should not be guaranteed to get all of your rights back.
The government has the authority to protect all of our civil rights. When someone has been convicted of a serious felony such as murder they forfiet some of their civil rights and it is the government’s duty to try to protect our civil liberties (such as life) from these people as much as possible.