Posted By:
BobI think anyone with a non-criminal background should be allowed to own a weapon but the NRA does everyone a disservice in attempting to buck any type of legislation forbidding automatic weapons. My 2 cents is this:
1) Anyone who commits a felony crime (especially a violent felony) and is convicted or pleads guilty and has a gun of any sort in his possession at the time forfeits his right to parole and must flatten his sentence. It is mandatory that he serve pen time.
2) Anyone who commits a violent misdemeanor offense such as terroristic threatening or domestic assualt, etc. loses his right to own a gun and upon conviction of being in the possession of a gun at a later date, has a felony charge levelled against him.
The only problem is that there would be so many thugs and bad-asses going to the pen we would have to let out the hot check writers and those sent to the pen for mere possession of drugs. Gee, what a novel idea, actually imprison the thugs and violent instead of the poor who commit victimless crimes (possession of drugs).