“There should be a way for felons to get their franchise restored, but it should not be quick or easy.”
No there shouldn’t. The whole NICS travesty is justified by the idea the felons can never ever have access to a firearm ever again. If they can’t be trusted with a gun why should they be trusted to care enough about the society that they knowingly betrayed to be trusted with the power of a vote?
Felon enfranchisement is a vastly unfair and dengerous idea that only serves the purposes of the DNC, as most felons are Democrats. No on should ever support or propose such a thing.
I used to be no guns for ex-cons, never.
But I thought about it.
If an ex-con is going to backslide, all the laws in the world won’t keep him from getting a gun. This is a basis for our overall opposition to gun-control: Criminals don’t obey gun-control laws. Also, the Feds are working very hard at making felons of us all!
And if an ex-con is going straight, he may need the means of self defense even more than we do.
I am less sanguine about returning the their vote franchise.