(08-25-2021, 09:09 PM)guohua Wrote:(08-25-2021, 12:48 AM)DuckforcoveR Wrote: Only thing I'll object to is some blanket determination that Felons somehow shouldn't be able to vote. Not commenting towards the meat (i.e. accusations of fraud), but I hate that "felon" gets turned into some target board for folks that are somehow lesser and shouldn't have rights and privileges.
This hits personal so I'll just leave it at that
I have to agree with you in Part.
There are some group's of Felons that have had associations with Gangs and Murder I don't want walking around armed.
JMHO
Yup. if they are too dangerous to be armed, they are too dangerous to walk the streets. Either keep them in prison or kill them off, but don't cripple their rights, turn them into second-class "citizens" without a citizen's rights, and then just turn them loose on the rest of society.
I'm approaching this from an association with a couple of felons who are "too dangerous" to be allowed to bear arms, but whom I have never, EVER felt a need to be afraid of, regardless of whether either of us was armed or not. Lawmakers are just pussies, I think. If they are that scared, they should never have been placed in office to begin with.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’