“You screwed up and committed a crime. The results of that crime are still around. Sorry, you don’t get all your rights back, just because you’ve completed your sentence.”
The way I see it, I don’t think that depriving felons of guns is wrong per se, but the arbitrary way it is done is. Being deprived of their guns should be an explicit part of their sentence. I.E. ‘X was sentenced to 10 years in prison for armed robbery and is prohibited from owning or using guns for 25 years/life or whatever’.
Yep. See my comment #43. We're in complete agreement.