If he can't be trusted with a gun, he shouldn't be out of the slammer.
Were he out of said slammer, would he lose his right to speak, worship, etc?
I have problems with Charlie Manson still being in the slammer.
He should have been converted to wormfood decades ago.
Not at all. The Supreme Court has already ruled that he doesn't have to register his gun since that would infringe upon his right not to incriminate himself. (Not that Charles Manson is going to get out anytime soon).
So, please tell me how many felons have been deterred by gun laws from obtaining a firearm.
I assume that you have a problem providing your own security in a free state?
Typical liberal BS. The odds on Manson ever getting out are somewhere between zero and nothing. Even if the Parole Board was stupid enough to release him, in a free country where everyone is armed, his odds of surviving his first attempt at crime are only slightly better.
You don't find many pro-gun people arguing for the rights of convicted criminals. Just as you don't find many of the anti-gun crowd arguing against any right to self defense. But both groups have their tin-foil fringe, don't they?
I choose not to deal with hypotheticals nor improbables. It is unlikely your pal will not get out of the slammer in my lifetime nor yours. But if he did, he is a convicted felon and could not legally obtain a firearm. Emerson, on the other hand, is not a convicted felon.
Besides, if your friend Chuck should somehow get out, I don't think he would be too worried about obtaining a firearm "legally" anyway. He would simply do what all other repeat offenders do illegally........
And if Manson should get out of prison, you would support my disarmament while at the same time allowing him to move in next door to me?
Of course you would as long as you were on the other side of the country rather than across the street.......
Are we to assume that you believe that under the current gun laws if Charlie Manson were to get out he would be unable to get a gun if he wanted one?