Hell no! We have to draw the line somewhere.

It’s not felons in particular but the wrong people have too many dogs.

I'd say the real problem is that the wrong people have too many kids.

I’d love to see a ten year world-wide no exceptions ban on breeding people.

Puppy mills, or people who don't take care of their pets?

Both.

Well, I'd def push back on the idea that felons should be allowed access to guns, even if it means going against two of my fave mods:-

My Case: it's not to be vindictive about people who have paid their debt to society, it's about the notion that a person has shown themselves capable of a felony.
Definition, my bold:

Plenty of people are released from prison with almost full rights, but plus some restrictions. I suspect that some aren't allowed passports; someone who constructed a bomb is prob barred from working in the chemicals industry. Pedafiles aren't allowed near schools and have to register address changes, some people have long-term restraining orders, etc, etc.

I'm in favour of giving felons a fair second chance, but losing the right to bear arms is not much of an impedement to leading a normal life imo.

We're all capable of felonies.

Restricting the rights of felons assigns them to a lifelong second class citizenry, and recidivism is a symptom of our flawed prison system used to blame felons for being "unfixable". The biggest criticism I see against it is part of a larger discussion about how valuable gun rights are.

nah cause I don't have a good argument for giving crazy people guns



the first part of your post seems unrelated to the second. There are plenty of non felons who are eager to play cowboy. Which crimes do you think would make one more inclined to over zealously kill home invaders?

If we were going crime by crime the only category of people who pose a significant risk with a gun are people with domestic violence charges. Those are the types to kill their wife with a legal gun and end up eating the charges.

So fundamentally you don't believe in the possibility of rehabilitation.



in the case of pedophiles and schools etc there's an obvious added risk involved - to a certain extent they are dealing with psychological issues and it's best to avoid triggering a relapse into bad behavior, the same way alcoholics avoid bars.

Felons with legal guns don't pose an obvious enough risk to strip them of a basic right guaranteed in the bill of rights. For reasons I explained above, gun crimes are much more likely to be committed with illegal guns because legal ones can be traced through ballistic forensics. And only a fraction of the felons are even gun crime offenders in the first place. Out of those... The gang killings are carried out almost exclusively with illegal guns. Domestic crimes sometimes involve legal guns but that group has a really low recitivism rate.