[jwalsh07]

Once his sentence is up, he is by right a free man once again, with all the natural rights that go along with it, including the right to self-defense.

Nope. His sentence can contain probation, a prohibition on working with children, his forfeiture of his right to sit on the board of a corporation and a prohibition on his RTKABA.

[dcwusmc]

Yes, but after his sentence is completed which was the original thrust. Once the sentence is discharged he is a free man again. At that point how do you justify preventing him from being able to protect himself again? You cannot justify it at all except by the convoluted twists of a politician's "mind"!