It’s okay to disagree. Otherwise we would just be the conservative equivalent of Democratunderground. I have considered both sides of the argument that if you cannot be trusted with a firearm, you should not be released from prison. But in reality, that isn’t going to happen. So what we have are violent criminals on the street. And we know that they don’t obey laws and they WILL get a gun if they want one. I see banning them from possessing a firearm as a tool to put them back into prison from which they should have never been released in the first place.
Perhaps a compromise, ban only violent ex-cons from owning firearms until they can prove themselves trustworthy. How about that?
I think the biggest problem is that release from prison is only predicated on time served in many cases. In fact, actual real repentance ought to enter strongly into the picture; like, “Hello, it’s called a penitentiary for a reason, isn’t it?” Someone could spend 20 years in The Slammer and if they’re not repentant letting them out as a horrible idea. So we are in agreement about the broken condition of the system where it comes to deciding who gets released and when. Recidivism rates are high because repentance is almost non-existent, and the system doesn’t even look for it as a condition of release. So, somebody could spend 10 years in prison perfecting the art of crying crocodile tears just so when they get up before the parole board they get out.