http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2012/07/13/tennessee-ranks-among-highest-states-for-felon-disenfranchisement Comments On: Tennessee Ranks Among Highest States For Felon Disenfranchisement by Jonathan Meador en-us Copyright 2013 Nashville Scene. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Nashville Scene readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Nashville Scene. wil@desert.net (Nashville Scene Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by mattintn]]> Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:32:14 -0500 Nashville Scene >Anyone who commits a felony using a weapon should never be allowed to own a gun again.<<

I support that. I also feel felons shouldn't be getting their gun rights back, period, end-of-story.
Posted by bobsguns]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:06:04 -0500 Nashville Scene
1) "Beau Krueger, who has two assaults on his record and got his gun rights back last year in Minnesota after only a brief hearing, in which local prosecutors did not even participate."

Seems to me that prosecutors dropped the ball here & most likely have in many other cases as well, IMO.
Posted by bobsguns]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:03:33 -0500 Nashville Scene
Anyone who commits a felony using a weapon should never be allowed to own a gun again. No right is absolute.
Posted by Mark Rogers]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:06:17 -0500 Nashville Scene
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/us/felon…
Posted by Min]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:53:00 -0500 Nashville Scene book.
Posted by NeverFear]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:00:53 -0500 Nashville Scene >why is it, according to some sources, we have a larger percentage of our population locked up than most other countries in the civilized world?<<

Because in many countries they take you outside from the arrest & shoot you on the spot. This saves them time for a trial as well as prison space.
Posted by bobsguns]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:30:57 -0500 Nashville Scene
"How can we expect them to change if they are treated like animals."

Fair point. But in turn, how can we expect people to change their negative behaviors like laziness, inattentive parenting, drug use, or relying on others to provide for them if they are treated as nothing is their responsibility?

"This is one of the reasons I oppose most zero tolerance policies and mandatory sentencing laws."

Zero tolerance policies exist because in their absence there is too much potential for unequal treatment.
Posted by Mark Rogers]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:22:45 -0500 Nashville Scene
That is the price paid for intentionally breaking society's rules.

I have no problem with this concept.

I also concede some individuals are incorrigible, will never change, and have no capacity for empathy, true sociopaths with no compassion for others.

The people I have concerns for are the ones worth saving, who make a mistake in judgement for whatever reason, and can become not only functioning, but contributing, actually outstanding members of society.

The problem I have with the "eye for an eye," "hang 'em, it'll teach 'em a lesson" theory and those advocating such, is the painting of everyone with the same brush, with no regard for the individual.
Posted by Ask01]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:04:36 -0500 Nashville Scene
"It is truly sad that we, as a nation, have lost the quality of empathy."

As a nation, America is unequaled in compassion. But Americans are also realists and they have an enormous sense of fairness.
Posted by Mark Rogers]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:19:12 -0500 Nashville Scene >it's already much easier for a former felon to have his gun rights restored in many states that to have his voting rights restored.<<

Min, give us an example or cite the law code saying such. Or is this another example of liberal hot air with absolutely NO substance?
Posted by bobsguns]]> Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:00:19 -0500 Nashville Scene
*I* prefer empathy to be on the victims side, NOT the thugs. YMMV.


"Many blindly, and with no forethought, always declare they would never find themselves in trouble with the law, totally ignoring the fact they don't, and indeed none of us, know what the future holds and the actions we might take in a given situation."

Knowing or not knowing has nothing to do with obeying the law.
Posted by bobsguns]]> Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:57:10 -0500 Nashville Scene >have the moral imagination to say we too can imagine a situation or set of life circumstances where we would be capable of such offenses<<

Speaking only for myself, I cannot imagine a circumstance where *I* would rape/murder/rob someone. I would suffer myself before I set misery upon someone else simply for the enjoyment/betterment for myself.

Perhaps I'm too old fashioned in thinking this way?
Posted by bobsguns]]> Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:48:42 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Min]]> Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:39:18 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by 464 ZMB]]> Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:06:06 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by xray]]> Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:30:17 -0500 Nashville Scene
The ability of higher evolved species to imagine themslves in another place is a quality that has escaped us somehow.

Many blindly, and with no forethought, always declare they would never find themselves in trouble with the law, totally ignoring the fact they don't, and indeed none of us, know what the future holds and the actions we might take in a given situation.

There is, however, a certain entertainment factor inherent in watching a pompous, self centered, self absorbed cretin meltdown when they find themselves in circumstance for which they have condemned others.

Perpetrators of violent crimes need to be locked away so that voting is not even pertinent to the conversation. Those convicted of crimes involving theft of large sums of money, ruining peoples lives, to include businessmen, politicians, and the wealthy who have manipulated markets and economies for their own personal gain at the expense of the general populace, should also be incarcerated for extended periods, also rendering their right to vote moot.

Others however, who made a mistake in judgement, are supposed to be rehabilitated by incarceration, making them into productive members of society.
Posted by Ask01]]> Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:29:56 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Brendan O'Connor]]> Sun, 15 Jul 2012 09:11:34 -0500 Nashville Scene >Someone who has served their sentence probably should be given the right to vote again...<<

What about the people who died as victims? How do they get to vote?
Posted by bobsguns]]> Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:25:14 -0500 Nashville Scene
- New Egypt
Posted by James Farrell]]> Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:27:18 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by AnglRdr]]> Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:03:47 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by xray]]> Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:28:51 -0500 Nashville Scene >a cheap labor force they can abuse and who will never dare complain, especially in Tennessee, proudly a 'Right To Work' (read more correctly as 'Right To Fire For No Good Reason) state.<<

As opposed to, say a "right to protect the worthless union members because they pay their dues" states?

CA is a prime example of how well a union helps their state & workforce.
Posted by bobsguns]]> Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:45:21 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Ask01]]> Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:15:27 -0500 Nashville Scene >EX-felon.....paid in full the payment you required for his or her mistake.<<

Horseshit.

Tell that to the woman who's been raped & lives with those nightmares FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE. Tell that to the kids who's parent has been killed & they'll never be able to speak to them again or know their grand-kids.

Peddle your liberal horseshit elsewhere, we're all full up here.
Posted by bobsguns]]> Sat, 14 Jul 2012 06:14:48 -0500 Nashville Scene