Oh, I agree — and this is the reason that they push the ex-felon's disbarment of arms — it conditions people to think of the right as something that may be legitimately abridged by law.
therefore rights cannot be lost except by becoming truly criminal.
I disagree, for the most part. There are some people here who make assertions like prisoner-rape is part of their sentence, that they lose a right to security [or self defense] by virtue of being convicts.
Yes, that ought not be part of “punishment”.
Then again, when contrasted with Biblical principles, we let far too many criminals live, and our prison system is way too large of a public expense.