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To: coloradan
I consider myself as pro-Second Amendment as anyone, but I can't get too upset about felons getting their right to keep and bear arms taken away. It's like the right to vote. Felons often lose that also.
132 posted on 12/11/2002 4:23:41 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
I consider myself as pro-Second Amendment as anyone, but I can't get too upset about felons getting their right to keep and bear arms taken away. It's like the right to vote. Felons often lose that also.

I get upset at both the continuing descent of what it takes to be charged with a felony, which used to be for murder and rape and now includes thousands of non-violent offenses, including merely possessing a gun in some places, and at the concept that people who are considered "so dangerous" that they should never vote or own a gun again being released out of prison, either on parole or freed outright. If these people are so dangerous, lock them up; if not, free then and restore their rights. In no case should the rest of us have to prove we are still non-criminal because the justice department frees criminals to live among us, namely, by forcing us to submit to background checks.

137 posted on 12/11/2002 6:44:51 AM PST by coloradan
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