[Myrddin]

I disagree. No violent felon should ever be allowed to carry a weapon. Society is not going to send every felon to prison for life. Gang members who are underage will leave jail at the age of 21 no matter what the crime is. They should never be permitted to carry a firearm.

You condone releasing violent felons back into society. That is the root of the problem. It's a revolving door. We spend the money to apprehend, prosecute and incarcerate, then let them out to have another go at society. Most of them do just that...and we repeat the cycle of apprehend, prosecute, incarcerate. In the process, innocent people die because we don't have the fortitude to keep the violent felons out of civil society.

Since we don't have to fortitude to keep felons off the street, it is even more important not to disarm law abiding citizens who need to protect themselves from the government's failure to keep violent felons separated from the law abiding. The revolving door stinks.

[MACVSOG68]

You condone releasing violent felons back into society. That is the root of the problem. It's a revolving door. We spend the money to apprehend, prosecute and incarcerate, then let them out to have another go at society. Most of them do just that...and we repeat the cycle of apprehend, prosecute, incarcerate. In the process, innocent people die because we don't have the fortitude to keep the violent felons out of civil society.

I don't condone it at all. It's an irrelevant argument since felons who have served their time for violent crimes are released daily. If you accept the concept of federalism, you also accept that states set their own laws concerning the release of felons.

Since we don't have to fortitude to keep felons off the street, it is even more important not to disarm law abiding citizens who need to protect themselves from the government's failure to keep violent felons separated from the law abiding. The revolving door stinks.

I agree completely.