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NRA selling out gun rights of felons: Claims 70,000 Texans exiting prison each year are not "people"

By Gritsforbreakfast

Sometimes even "purists" advocate civil liberties for me but not for thee, and that's even more often true of the Second Amendment, the always controversial "right to bear arms."The NRA calls itself "the oldest civil rights organization in America," but Doug Berman at Sentencing Law and Policy calls a spade a spade in assessing the purity of the National Rifle Association's Second Amendment stance when it comes to felons: They're "sell outs." He writes:Though perhaps other supporters of gun rights do not sell out felons, I was especially interested to see that the National Rifle Association's brief, which describes the NRA as "America?s foremost defender of Second Amendment rights" readily concedes that "laws barring [any gun] ownership by convicted felons" would pass its proposed Second Amendment test...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 09, 2008 (boomark / email).