[MACVSOG68]

By the way, there are many states that give all rights back to felons, except 2nd amendment, when released from jail/prison. Why should the 2nd be treated any different? Because guns can be dangerous? Sorry, but they are not barred from archery equipment; baseball bats; golf clubs; etc.

So if I understand you correctly, a convicted murderer should be allowed to carry a firearm after release? Given that logic, I would suggest it would be alright to permit a convicted child molester to again teach school upon his release.

[Dead Corpse]

So if I understand you correctly, a convicted murderer should be allowed to carry a firearm after release?

Until 1968, they could. Don't be stupid. How does disarming everyone else make you safer from murders or child molesters?

[looscnnn]

"I would suggest it would be alright to permit a convicted child molester to again teach school upon his release."

Tell me where in the Constitution is it written that teaching is a right?

"So if I understand you correctly, a convicted murderer should be allowed to carry a firearm after release?"

If you are going to restore rights to a felon, why not all them? Are the others more important, of higher stature than the 2nd? Also, you are stating a convicted murder (whom I may agree, if evidence was not witheld, should not own firearms) but what about those that are convicted of "white collar" crimes that make them felons? Is Martha Stewart as much a threat to society if she were to be able to own firearms again? Again, are they less equal than us? Are cops and military personel more equal than us?

[supercat]

So if I understand you correctly, a convicted murderer should be allowed to carry a firearm after release?

Almost everyone who would pose an unacceptable danger to society if not prevented from acquiring a firearm, would poses unacceptable danger to society even if forbidden such acquisition.

Liberals like to push for dangerous people to be released, and then use the havoc they cause as justification for disarming the law-abiding.

[El Gato]

So if I understand you correctly, a convicted murderer should be allowed to carry a firearm after release

It was that way until 1968, at least in some states. The Republic managed to survive from 1792 until then.

If the guy is really a threat, he's going to get a gun anyway. If he's not, well even convicted felons, maybe especially them, have enemies, and are just as susceptible to being mugged, burglarized and so forth as anyone else.

Now if the jury and/or judge make loss of the RKBA part of the individual's sentence, then that's deprivation of a right via due process, and is no different in principal from the loss of liberty via due process when the guy was sent to jail.