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Supreme Court to decide if gun bans for domestic abusers are constitutional (www.npr.org)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza to c/politics

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

I'm sure this would be a hot take, but I'm not a fan of implementing punishments after we already put people in prison and had them serve their time. If you don't think they have reformed, then fix the prison time and the reform process. The whole point of the prison system is to have them serve time until they are rehabilitated.

Obviously, this is not working in his case, and the prison system needs massive reforms. But, the solution is not to add more punishments after his prison time. Constitutionally, he is granted his rights back when he served his sentence.

Anybody with even a passing understanding of constitutional law would know how obviously unconstitutional this is. For fuck's sake, even the ACLU points out the inconsistency:

But Cole points out a different flaw in the government's argument. "The notion that any right is limited to law abiding, responsible citizens seems to me really odd," he says. "You don't have to be a law abiding responsible person to have First Amendment rights, Fourth Amendment rights, Fifth Amendment rights."