Restoration of Rights (to own a firearm, to vote, etc.) SURVEY

[RobertNashville]

I believe I've pretty much answered that question in this thread and in at lest one other thread.

I also believe that you and I have very different opinions on the matter that aren't going to change.

[deerslayer]

Also, IMHO, anyone who has went to jail and finished their senence has not repaid their debt to society. What they have done is been punished for the crimes they committed. They have not repaid anything.

In my eyes their debt has not been repaid unless they paid the state back for the cost of their arrest, trial and housing. Until that time they have not repaid their debt. Oh yeah, lets not forget about all that is owed to the victims of those they committed the crime against. I guarantee most victims of violent crimes need counseling and in some cases medication to deal with the trauma of a violent action agaist them. Do you think the criminal pays for that? No they do not, they go to jail and serve maybe 35% of the original sentence and then they proclaim they have repaid their debt to society.

 

 

This.

 

All the talk about convicts' debt being settled when they walk out of prison is rubbish.  Try being one of their victims.  My father was shot by a convicted non-violent felon.  This garbage will never repay his debt to society, much less my father, but he will someday leave prison.  Part of his punishment is that he cannot legally posess a gun.  Before this happened, I felt the same way about disarming felons and my opinion was only reinforced after my father nearly died.  Why make it easier for such types to obtain guns?

 

Convicted felons, violent or not, have used such bad judgment or had such evil intentions that they should never be fully trusted again.

 

I voted no.  I just don't feel sorry for them.