There is no Constitutional justification for banning unincarcerated felons from possession of guns. No enforcement of gun laws will deter felons from possession and use of guns. Just piling more criminal charges on a felon who uses a gun is not useful. He has already committed a serious crime and is charged with that crime.It is like Hate laws which themselves are unConstitutional.
“There is no Constitutional justification for banning unincarcerated felons from possession of guns. No enforcement of gun laws will deter felons from possession and use of guns. Just piling more criminal charges on a felon who uses a gun is not useful. He has already committed a serious crime and is charged with that crime.It is like Hate laws which themselves are unConstitutional.”
Maybe on some other planet that view might work.
However in the reality of Democrat controlled cites, local and state gun crime laws are routinely unenforced and ignored.
Chicago in particular eliminated and disbanded the Gun Court, and gun crime police task forces, long ago so as not to displease the local West Side reverends and black lives matter political groups.
The only way to have effective gun crime law enforcement is to enforce the existing Federal law in those cities.
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There is no Constitutional justification for banning unincarcerated felons from possession of guns. No enforcement of gun laws will deter felons from possession and use of guns. Just piling more criminal charges on a felon who uses a gun is not useful. He has already committed a serious crime and is charged with that crime.It is like Hate laws which themselves are unConstitutional.
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You are spot on...mostly (not directed at you, per se. More of the verbal ‘switch-a-roo’). IMO, too many on the right don’t debate correctly.
Felons are\belong in jail.
Citizens are\do not.
Felons relinquish some Rights while serving their time.
Citizens retain all their Rights.
We do not have a caste system in the U.S. An ex-felon is exactly that: one whom has ‘paid their due to society’ for their crime(s) and again entered the ranks of the Citizenry.
“just piling more criminal charges on a felon who uses a gun is not useful”
Sure it’s useful . . they rot in prison, which makes us safer.
Better would be to kill them, but our masters on the SCOTUS say we can’t do that.