beevul: Just imagine the absolute fun you'd be having with this, if those former inmates had said the same thing about a constitutionally protected right - gun rights. .. They'd go from being the poor disenfranchised former felons, to the "ammosexuals" whos decisions and judgment can't be trusted, all with a switch of the topic.
There's a distinction between violent ex-felons & non violent ex-felons. Had it been non violent ex-felons I generally wouldn't care if they owned guns if they passed a background check (ha) and it's legal in their state, I don't think perjury should disallow one from owning a gun. But, felons with past convictions of violent crimes should never be able to purchase a firearm, with scant exceptions on a case by case.
Georgia Says Ex-Cop Convicted of Sexually Assaulting a Woman With His Gun Gets to Own a Gun
Despite Krauss' sexual assault conviction, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles restored his right to carry a firearm in July 2013.
This is coming to light now {2014} because the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an exposé of the Georgia courts' tendency to restore gun privileges to convicted felons. The Journal-Constitution counted 358 violent felons who were able to regain gun rights in a six-year period, 32 who killed someone and 44 who were convicted of sex crimes.
So address the problem above rather than giddily tap dance about it, going slappy happy about your specious premise; these violent people should not have access to firearms yet the nra likely will not complain about most all felons gaining back their alleged gun rights, yet nra will have a big problem with them being able to vote. What far right wing hypocrisy.
What are they really afraid of? that these armed ex felons might bring their guns to the election booth?
What does someone have to do in order to lose gun rights in Georgia? Apparently, sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint—even threatening to anally penetrate her with the gun—is not enough... shocking case of Dennis Krauss, a now former police officer who was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in 1999 who had called 911 to complain that her husband was beating her .. instead of helping the woman, Krauss threatened to take her to jail if she didn't have sex with him.
Krauss checked them into a motel room while the woman sat terrified, thinking she was under arrest, in the car. "I had to, I was afraid to leave, he, you know, he is a police officer; you don't just leave," the victim explained. Once he had her in the motel room, according to the 2003 appeals court decision, "Krauss took his gun from his gun belt and told the victim he wanted to have anal sex with her with the gun." Then he pushed her, pulled off her pants, and raped her. http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/08/25/georgia_restores_gun_rights_to_a_former_cop_convicted_of_sexually_assaulting.html
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