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To: thefactor

“you actually want someone to sit and go through every felony conviction and determine whether the offender should be able to own a gun.”

Perhaps you are not aware that stretching for the worst possible interpretation of another person’s remarks is intellectually dishonest.

We would only need to establish the conditions under which a felon could petition for restoration of his right to self defense.

“how about vote? same process?”

The founding fathers very wisely established a representative republic rather than a mobocracy. Every expansion of the franchise has moved us closer to mobocracy, bringing us eventually to the Bamtard and potential fall of the Constitution.


56 posted on 08/17/2009 1:53:32 PM PDT by dsc (The "t" in the word "often" is silent.)
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To: dsc
you said, "...examine cases on their individual merits ..."

that sounds a lot like going through case by case. now you want guidelines.

how about this guideline: you are convicted of committing an act that is defined by the law as a felony, you do not own a gun.

or is a businessman who commits securities fraud more deserving of a gun than an inner city youth who robs someone of $20?

58 posted on 08/17/2009 2:05:12 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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