Posted on 06/19/2008 10:10:22 AM PDT by kingattax
We are sooooo screwed! (I’m going to be using that line a lot over the next few months)
And a whole lot of criminals ought to get consecutive sentences.
I couldn't agree more.
Gotta wonder how many will actually ever know this? Even less will actually vote I suspect.
BS, you sound like an elitist.Thats like saying if you caused one traffic accident you will no longer be allowed to drive. Or, just because you screwed up on a loan 10 years ago and had a car repooesed means you can never finance another one.What would the incentive be for going straight if you knew you could never regain your civil rights. I feel the same way about gun ownership. Once a felon has completed his punishment all rights should be restored.
Well now my exhusband, who lives in Florida, can’t complain to me because he is a convicted felon for child abandonment about how he can’t vote or own a gun anymore.
As if he needs to do either, but whatever.
Your last sentence needs some attention. “All rights” you say?
Whoa. If a felon is a pedophile, I think some controls should be in place and that goes for a lot of other crimes too.
I really agree with you.
But maybe we can meet in the middle with this, first time felon, rights restored. Second time felon, lost for life.
How’s that?
The Dems will do outreach to these felons. They will tap them all they can.
Just a thought ... I wonder just what % of the 115,000 committed crimes with victims that deserve restitution ...
They dont call us the Stupid Party for nothing.
WTF
Crist is a scumbag. A vote of a law abiding citizen being equal to a convicted felon ? Sorry. Convicted felons should lose their right to vote and hold office FOR LIFE.
As another poster stated, some crimes should hold lifetime punishment.If some one spends 20 years in prison for murder, when he is paroled it should be for life along with other crimes as you stated. There is a very wide spectrum included under the coviction of “felon”.
The debt is NOT paid. The punishment has been applied. Let them live their lives without getting in further trouble THEN apply for restoration.
See my post 35. Also, many reformed ex felons are not democrats.They tend to lean further to the right than what you might think, key word “reformed”.
I think people should serve their full sentences unless there is some extenuating circumstance(s).
But, as you say, “felon” covers wide turf.
Are the non-violent felons now permitted to own a gun as per their constitutional rights?
If not, then why are the other rights restored that are not enumerated in the Constitution?
Thats what the article says, after they complete thier punishment. If some one is sentenced to 20 years in prison but gets out in ten, he still has ten years to fulfill his punishment in the outside world while on parole.
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