It falls short of full rights restoration, which is an admission of failure of the justice system to adequately render appropriate punishments for a given crime.
Yeah, let's go soft on felons, what could possibly go wrong? NYC is going soft on criminals and their murder rate is up 8%.
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Who said anything about going soft? And the term “felon” rings hollow. Especially when used by those who don’t even know what it means. But I’ll save you the trouble of looking it up. A felon is a person who has been found guilty of a crime in which the sentence could result in more than one year of incarceration. One year plus one day... Viola! “Felon” That’s it....
The convicted doesn’t even have to actually have served that one year plus. Only the possibility of such punishment need exist. Nor does the designation in anyway refer the the severity or type of infraction. Nor is there standardization of sentencing amongst all the states. It makes no distinction between the granny who wrote a bum check 40 years ago, and a serial killer like Jeffery Dahmer. The Felon label is a retarded standard by which to discriminate against voters. The real problem is the completely ineffective method of the one size fits all punishment system we use.
If your primary concern is that these people will vote for “the other guy”; then get better ideas to campaign on...
The States shouldn't have uniform laws or standardized sentencing. Each State has it's own priorities and are free to govern accordingly. I guess you don't understand the concept of federalism. The KY Constitution bars all felons from voting for life, it does however have a provision for gubernatorial pardons to give relief. This mass relief (ala maobamas DACA program) just shits on the State Constitution and the citizens of the State. But hey, you commies have always been about short cutting Constitutions and the rule of law. Why not go to the trouble of changing the State Constitution and do it the right way?
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You clearly didn’t understand a word of what I said to you. What a waste of time... But before I leave you to your “bubble”... I should point out another thing you don’t seem to understand.
Not everyone who disagrees with you is to your Left (ie Communist). As hard as it is for some myopic Conservative Republicans to comprehend; there are Republicans who are even further to the right than they are. And for us over here... when we look Left, we see both the “Conservative right”, the Democrat Left, Communists, and on, and on... And each and every one of you share one thing in common the love of a powerful nanny state. All we see from over here is the lot of you scrapping it out to decide who gets to take the wheel.
All of this is as sure to go over your head, much like my last post. So... If you’ll excuse me. I think I’m done wasting my time with you on this matter.
