That isn’t true. A felon can’t vote in many jurisdictions. They can’t own a gun. They can’t run for certain offices. There are many things a felon can’t do.
Every and all kinds of convictions will never negate or nulify consituional rights. A criminal still keeps 100% of consituional rights. No law restricts a constituional right.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 4 months ago
uzi@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
And I reject all of that. I say a felon can still vote, hold office, and own guns. When I find out a convict has firearms or guns, I do not report them because I protect their eternal right to own guns, unrestricted, regardless of a record.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 4 months ago
You can reject it, but that doesn’t change the fact that it still happens.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Criminals do not keep all their constitutional rights, when they are incarcerated they are not free to move about or posses many things. Felons on probation are not allowed to associate with other felons.
uzi@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
And after they have been released from incarceration, I treat them as still posessing every and all constituional rights.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 4 months ago
How you treat them doesn’t change that they’ve lost rights expressly enumerated in the constitution.
uzi@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I will never report any person I know if they do something that is within the consitution but has a criminal conviction, there is no crime. If a convict has a gun, I ignore the law and treat them as being within their rights if the gun is currently being used in a criminal matter.