Not sure all of what would be called felonies, one probably shouldn’t have to give up voting rights for something like a car theft. Armed Robbery I’m not sure about.
In Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and California there are a lot of places where if you steal a fellow’s car, you have given them a death sentence.
I would say that stealing a car should be a felony, and a shooting offense. Disagree with that if you want.
In a perfect world there would be no crime. In a close approach to that perfect world a perpetrator would be suddenly shot just before he could commit a crime.
I’m a former felon (failure to appear) and I’m a Goldwater/Reagan Guerrilla free marketeer. In Michigan you regain the vote as long as you aren’t incarcerated on parole or probation.
Frankly I think the fantasy that people sit in prison and dream about the day they get to vote makes global warming seem sane in comparison.
I wasn’t interested in voting till I settled my life and chose to be a responsible person. At the end of the day its up to the states. I do think the idea of some states letting prison inmates vote is idiotic. Inmates will vote just for a change of pace and they’ll vote for whoever promises them the most.
“Armed Robbery I’m not sure about.”
That’s the thing I don’t understand. If these crimes are so grave and we’re so concerned that we can’t let these felons vote or own a gun, then why are they out of prison in the first place? Or better, why weren’t they swinging at the end of a rope?