Shot over handgun

[ceyko]

Once convicted of a felony, you give up some of your rights... and justifiably so.

Seems the reality is, a felon still gets a gun if they want it.

Meanwhile, we get to fill out paperwork for one if buying new. I think it should be as simple as buying a candy bar. Pick it out, pay for it and done. No paperwork unless the seller wants it.

[Denny]

Once convicted of a felony, you give up some of your rights... and justifiably so.

[ceyko]

If criminals want guns, they are going to have/get guns. I'm not sure i see the point in it being illegal anymore. Just makes it more of a pain in the ass for us law abiding citizens.

[Forever_frost]

Arguing for a convicted felon to have a gun? Wtf?

I am. ONce you are released, you should have all rights returned. You served your debt to society and if you're still a danger, then you shouldn't be released. Evidently they think you're fine to release into the public so you should be fine to have every one of your God given rights restored. It's not like making it illegal for felons to own firearms actually stops felons from owning firearms.

[svauto-erotic855]

Nigga you cray.

The GCA proves the old saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[CexMashean]

Nigga you cray.

[svauto-erotic855]

Arguing for a convicted felon to have a gun? Wtf?

I would argue for just that. Once you agree to allowing the government to decide who can and can't have a gun you have lost the battle because they WILL NEVER stop adding more people to the list of who can't have them. The GCA was written with the intent of outlawing ALL private firearm ownership by the early 80s. If you don't believe that you should research what the law makers who wrote and passed the GCA had to say about it when they passed it. It has been driving the left nuts that they have not been able to pull that off yet.

[CexMashean]

Arguing for a convicted felon to have a gun? Wtf?

[Gasser64]

Wrong. That individual did not have the right to possess a firearm.
From the story:
"A man who officials say boasted of being a street "hellraiser" and who served prison time for attempted murder..."
He was a convicted felon.

Does the constitution say felons shouldn't have guns? They left all that out for a good reason.

Or better yet, if a once convicted felon is minding his own business and just generally trying to get on with his life, should he now be deprived of the right to defend his life? I think its you who is "wrong".

They've already been known to arrest and convict people in certain circumstances, just to get what they want on trumped up charges. Its only cause they haven't gotten it into their little pea brains, that they haven't started calling rolling through a stop sign a "felony" in order to attempt to deprive more people of guns. You should know how they operate by now.

[CexMashean]

This mother fucker here. . . .

[svauto-erotic855]

Because we have allll this space in prisons, and prisons are all about rehabilitation. Ok, got it.
If you guys want to allow someone who has proven that they have no intention of fitting in to society free reign to have any and all guns, then feel free to move in right next door to them. I, on the other hand, feel it prudent to restrict violent convicted felons from possessing firearms.
And really? You think THAT opens the door to the government restricting firearm ownership by model citizens? Oh, puhlease. They are busy at work trying to erode those rights through other means.

I hire convicts; some are/were VERY violent ones. I trust every single one of them with a gun. If they can not live in civil society they should not be let out of prison. If not letting them out is not practical then march them en masse into the gas chambers.

FYI: Prison in TX is very explicitly NOT about rehabilitation. It is about punishment and that is written into the act/law that formed TDCJ out of the ashes of TDC in the 80s.

[CexMashean]

We need Judge Dredd.

[appelingogt]

Because we have allll this space in prisons, and prisons are all about rehabilitation. Ok, got it.
If you guys want to allow someone who has proven that they have no intention of fitting in to society free reign to have any and all guns, then feel free to move in right next door to them. I, on the other hand, feel it prudent to restrict violent convicted felons from possessing firearms.
And really? You think THAT opens the door to the government restricting firearm ownership by model citizens? Oh, puhlease. They are busy at work trying to erode those rights through other means.

The model "Citizen" is becoming fewer and fewer...THATS the problem

[helosailor]

Because we have allll this space in prisons, and prisons are all about rehabilitation. Ok, got it.
If you guys want to allow someone who has proven that they have no intention of fitting in to society free reign to have any and all guns, then feel free to move in right next door to them. I, on the other hand, feel it prudent to restrict violent convicted felons from possessing firearms.
And really? You think THAT opens the door to the government restricting firearm ownership by model citizens? Oh, puhlease. They are busy at work trying to erode those rights through other means.

[svauto-erotic855]

Exactly. I mean, what are the chances he'll try to kill someone again? 1 in 3, 2 in 3? I say 2 outa 3 ain't so bad.

It is real simple. If someone can't be trusted to live in civil society after being let out of prison they should not be let out of prison.