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I think gun rights should be revoked for those in prison or on parole or in halfway house or in the loony bin.

I do not support anything beyond that.

They could make repeated gun related offenses aggravating ....which many jurisdictions probably do....I know the Feds do.

I also would probably support an individual judge invoked restriction on some folks with a case by case determination which could be temporary and very locally determined.

However...we are so far beyond all that now, that we are more concerned about the continually eroding gun rights for normal Joes that no one is going to give any consideration to these issues.

We are already up to our ass in gungrabbing alligators.

"I think gun rights should be revoked for those in prison or on parole or in halfway house or in the loony bin.

I do not support anything beyond that.
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Interesting. I'll bet I could come up with some examples of folks getting out of prison who you wouldn't think should be armed. It's an exercise I'm not going to pursue, but I have no doubt that I could do it.

Problem is that each case either has to be judged individually or there has to be a general law that covers it.

Right now, we have that general law that prohibits convicted felons from owning or possessing firearms. It's no doubt unjust in many cases, and I believe there should be funding for the program to enable a released convict to get the right back. I do not, however, believe that we should simply throw the law out and allow the guy who just got out of prison after serving his sentence to buy firearms. That doesn't seem logical to me at all.

Somewhere, there's a middle ground on this issue. I don't want the convict who has served 20 years for killing someone with a firearm to be able to legally buy one, once released. Sorry, but that's the way I feel about that.

OTOH, I don't think the guy convicted of something like using drugs should necessarily be barred from owning firearms. That would be a case-by-case thing. I don't like the idea of a bunch of cokeheads running round with firearms, but someone who has served his time and is clean...I see no problem there.