{"id":31900,"date":"2012-12-24T14:41:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T21:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/24\/ex-felons-and-gun-rights.html"},"modified":"2012-12-24T14:41:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T21:41:29","slug":"ex-felons-and-gun-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/24\/ex-felons-and-gun-rights.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-felons and gun rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ran across this 2011 article linked to in another piece. It's an interesting, complex read.<\/p>\n

Many states have (through NRA assistance) taken advantage of a change in federal law (sponsored by the NRA) to make it much easier to reinstate run rights to convicted felons, if they have had their other civil rights (voting, jury duty, political office holding) similarly reinstated by the state. This reinstatement is\u00a0apparently is done with little or no review\u00a0aside from a judge deciding if the person has stayed out of trouble since getting out of jail.<\/p>\n

As you can imagine, this has led to tragic results.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, I've tended to side with reinstating civil rights to former felons released from prison. Indeed, efforts in some R states to maintain or restore restrictions against ex-felons voting have often had more than a bit sketchy rationale behind them.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, putting guns back in the hands of violent(ish) felons doesn't strike me as wise — though not all felony crimes are created equally. \u00a0While the federal law supposedly excludes the most violent ex-felons from getting their gun rights restored, given the way charges get pled down to secure convictions that's often a misleading categorization.<\/p>\n

What strikes me most here is two things: (1) I suspect most people aren't aware of these legal provisions (and how they came about), and (2) there seems to be a real disconnect here in conservative circles (and, thus, in liberal circles) about whether former felons should have all their rights restored, and what the consequences of same are.<\/p>\n

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