Being beaten with a metal pipe in your own apartment can change your outlook on likely threat levels. But the police, a U.S. District Court and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, all of which operate under protection of state-deployed arms, disagreed, and in their guarded wisdom concluded Mr. Dutton did not possess a life worthy of also possessing the means of self-defense.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at legally-mandated defenselessness.
In order to come to this conclusion, they must resort to nothing short of fortune telling, because there are no empirical standards by which they can otherwise reach it. [More]
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Denial of rights is making the time served into a life sentence. The "authoritahs" can justify and twist the issue any way they like, but it always boils down to this: an ex felon's life is not worthy of the same protection as the lives of others, and he will remain a second-class citizen for the rest of his life.
Lets see....we have abortion to try to "weed out" the undesirables before birth, then we have laws to lock them up, then if the judge lets them off they're subject to other criminals (having done time it's very likely they know some)
Can there be any doubt that our .gov really wants some people dead? It's not necessarily a racial thing, but there sure seem to be some numbers that could back that up if one wanted.
While I am sympathetic to the felon who wishes to defend his hearth and home, I tend to support barring felons from arms. It is a complex issue with no clear simple solution. I believe most felons who want a firearm for home defense will get one and keep it in the hopes they will never have to use it in that manner, same as all of us, though the felon may have a different reason for that hope. The restoration of rights is something that bears a long consideration, especially for those who have been released and complied with all probation requirements after release without incident. I guess that would at least be fair.
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