Joe Dees wrote:
>
> >Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:01:54 -0500
> >From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
> >To: extropians@extropy.com
> >Subject: Re: [GUNS\ Re: g*n c*ntr*l
> >Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
> >
> >"Joe E. Dees" wrote:
> >>
> >> Without an easily accessible purchase-prohibited registry which
> >> must be checked prior to sale, such laws are unenforceable,
> >> especially as regards to violent criminals who have done their time,
> >> and MOST especially as to violent repeat offenders who have
> >> served their sentences, but also including those who have
> >> restraining orders issued against them, and the incompetent or
> >> insane.
> >
> >If they have done their time, and are rehabilitated, they are no longer
> >a threat to society, so once their parole period is up, give them back
> >their rights. If they are a threat, don't let them out of prison. This
> >is such a simple concept.
> >
> >Mike Lorrey
> >
> Then you are on record as advocating life without possibility of parole for anyone convicted of using a gun in a crime?
If they have been ajudged by a parole board to no longer be a threat to
society, then give them back their rights. If they remain a threat to
society, then lock them away for keeps, or at least until a parole board
does make a rehabilitated decision.
Mike Lorrey
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