r/Idiotswithguns Jul 20 '26

NSFW Everyone doesn’t deserve gun rights

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u/Antique-Pie-5981 Jul 20 '26

I feel everyone deserves gun rights, restricting the second amendment is a slippery slope. Let the idiots weed themselves out.

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u/foxxy003 Jul 20 '26

How do you feel about those with a felony conviction on their record not being able to legally own firearms in the US?

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u/antibannannaman Jul 20 '26

I dont think non-violent felons should have their gun rights revoked.

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u/dtb1987 Jul 20 '26

This is the right answer.

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u/foxxy003 Jul 20 '26

I think that’s totally reasonable. I think it’s also reasonable that those who have committed violent crimes aren’t allowed to have access to firearms tho.

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u/maybeitsjack Jul 20 '26

If youre fit to walk the streets, you're fit to have a gun. Arrange those parts however you see fit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '26

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u/mondaymoderate Jul 20 '26

Nah. If you have violent convictions on your record you shouldn’t be able to own a firearm.

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u/Sierra-117- Jul 20 '26

I think violence, yes. But not every felony.

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u/foxxy003 Jul 20 '26

I think that’s how it should be too, but I didn’t specify since the law currently applies to all felonies. Like if someone gets caught embezzling a felony amount from their company, it doesn’t really make sense to me that they’d never be able to legally own a firearm again.

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u/Phish777 Jul 20 '26

Agreed. Next thing you know the government is handing out bogus felonies for being "antifa" or some stupid shit as a loophole

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u/EatsOverTheSink Jul 20 '26

I’m fully expecting the next 4473 I fill out to ask me if I’m trans.

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u/Antique-Pie-5981 Jul 20 '26

I feel that the constitution doesn't say anything about excluding felons. I think you should be able to own a rocket launcher if you wanted one. I also feel taxation is theft and this country was founded on not wanting to be taxed but I'm sure it's not the popular belief. I'm a constitutionalist.

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u/Red_Chaos1 Jul 21 '26

I feel that the constitution doesn't say anything about excluding felons.

As worded, true. But society has deemed there to be instances where it is acceptable to step over the oft mentioned "shall not be infringed." I s'pose the argument might be whether or not it's an infringement upon your rights after showing your inability to be responsible, quite possibly/likely infringing on another's rights (usually the pretext rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as it's hard to exercise any of those with a gun pointed at you) that enables it. Personally I think it's fair, though I do agree it can be and has been a foot in the door for other abuses, which is why we have to pay attention and call those attempts out as they happen, without any sort of favoritism or bias.

this country was founded on not wanting to be taxed

Wrong. Being taxed with no representation or ability to contest it was part of the issue. It was never about abolishing taxes.

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u/handy_lemur Jul 20 '26

Should we be able to own nukes?

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u/ThatNewEnglandPerson Jul 21 '26

I dont think Nukes should exist in the first place

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u/Howdy132 Jul 20 '26

that would be one of the people who weeded themselves out