I honestly believe that everyone, including convicted felons should not be prohibited from owning or carrying weapons. But I also believe that punishments for crimes involving a weapon from brandishing to robbery to murder should be very harshly punished.
A convicted felon, having served the prison time and paid any other penalites legally imposed under due process of law, should not be further penalized by denial of his/her right to posses the means of lethal self defense, i.e., a firearm. When the felony was a “white collar” crime, involving no threat of physical violence or death against a person, such an additional penalty makes even less sense, in addition to its violation of Second
Amendment rights.
“I honestly believe that everyone, including convicted felons should not be prohibited from owning or carrying weapons.”
Exactly, and there should be no classification of weapons either.
Why differentiate between weapons? If you are a responsible owner of a small caliber handgun why can’t you be the responsible owner of an assault rifle, a large caliber sniper rifle, an RPG, a 105m howitzer, or an anti-aircraft battery?
Restricting what weapons a responsible owner can have just leaves the door wide open to make sure that the people are so woefully under-gunned that we may as well be completely unarmed if/when an oppressive regime decides that freedom is too inconvenient to be tolerated.
We the people need to be at least as well armed as the military under government control to be able to ensure freedom from tyranny, that is the essence of the 2nd amendment.
Agree.
I agree.