No person who loses control and acts violently toward others can be trusted to have a weapon as powerful as a gun.
I've trained with people who were more dangerous, without a gun, than most "CCW" license holders are with a gun in their hands.
Laws like this are a lame attempt to control the uncontrollable.
Most felons currently can not legally own guns, yet they kill lots of people every year, with guns. What use is the law, except to screw with otherwise decent people who have just as much a right to protect themselves as those who have never been caught doing something illegal?
Once people serve their time, they should have full rights as a citizen. Someone, who is too dangerous to be free and armed, should not be free in the first place. Some poor guy, who got caught spanking his kid years ago, should be able to protect his family as much as any of us.
This thread illustrates perfectly this quote from HL Menkin:
Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent — the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.
And...
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty — and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.
Either we are for the 2nd Amendment, or we aren't. There can be no "Well, I think it's a right that I have, but not for
those people over there." Eventually, you may find yourself one of
those people...
