Elfenwolf: ...the Left and the Right want the same thing, basically- the right of people to keep and bear arms. Unfortunately the Right wants to arm our criminals and nut burgers while the Left wants to keep our streets safe.
I thought that it was Left's position that once a violent felon served out his prison term, he is not a criminal anymore but a member of society enjoying all the rights and liberties.
Why would you consider such person dangerous? And how long? All his life? So how come that incorrigible dangerous person was released in the first place? Shouldn't he have been executed as the Right insist? Or at least stayed in prison for life?
You can hardly unleash a criminal into society and give him equal rights with the rest of us just so that you could deny some rights to lawfull citizen because there can be a former criminal among them. On the other hand, that's exactly what you do...
If a criminal is in prison or has been executed, violent mentally-ill patients are under proper supervision and illegal aliens are out of the country, what need is there for a background check?
miko
