Lewdog
Gold Member
Yeah you're right... you and Kaz only yell out Due Process when you don't like the law.
So Due Process for a felon to own a gun has to do with the court case for the crime they committed? Yeah, that's a reach that doesn't even come close. You do realize that a lot of felons who are affected by this are convicted of crimes that may not even involve a gun?
Well, since we don't like the law when it violates due process, that would make sense. There's no point in yelling about due process when it's being observed.
Okay, Mr. "BS in Criminal Justice" ("BS" sounds about right), let me clarify something you seem to have missed in your apocryphal college courses.
The constitutional guarantee of due process of law, found in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, prohibits all levels of government from arbitrarily or unfairly depriving individuals of their basic constitutional rights to life,liberty, and property. While the Fifth Amendment was originally construed to restrict just the federal government, the Fourteenth Amendment specifically expanded the protection to the states as well.
Due process comes in two forms: procedural and substantive. The government must apply the laws equally to everyone, and it must prove adequate justification for depriving a person of life, liberty, or property. The second one would be the part that pertains to this discussion.
The entire purpose of a criminal trial, such as convicted felons receive, is to require the government to prove justification for depriving that person of their liberty (ie. sending them to prison and revoking certain of their rights, such as gun ownership). That is what a trial DOES. It also allows the accused the opportunity to defend himself against the loss of liberty.
You will notice that in no definition of due process of law ANYWHERE is the phrase "applying for Social Security disability" mentioned. Not as due process of law itself, nor as adequate justification for removal of rights.
And FYI, no one ever said felons had to be convicted of gun crimes to revoke their right to own guns. That's just a little goalpost-moving you decided to throw in. I said a criminal trial constitutes due process of law, and it does.
Do you understand how dumb you sound? You are trying to talk down to me when you didn't even read the source information for the argument. You thought the law was just about anyone with mental illness or who could be perceived as mentally ill.
I'm going to give you a little advice. Before you go trying to talk down to others and putting down their education on a subject, you should probably at least make sure you are talking about the same topic and issues they are.
I understand that YOU think so. Do YOU understand that I don't give a fuck what you think, and wouldn't take your good opinion of me if you offered on a platter with an apple in its mouth?
I never said I thought any law was about all mentally ill people. It doesn't matter. It's unacceptable when it's about mentally ill people who get Social Security - which topic I have been addressing all along, regardless of your inability to understand that - just as much as any other time. I don't give a fuck what kind of weaseling around and goalpost-moving you attempt to use to somehow pretend that anything you've said is not the exact, Unconstitutional pile of shit I have eviscerated it repeatedly for being.
I'm going to give YOU a little advice. If you don't want to be talked down to, don't be a shit-crawling worm who's beneath everyone.
You sure have made quite a few responses to my statements you don't give a fuck about.![]()
Yes, because I DO care about what I'M saying.
Sure you do. I knew that from the very beginning. You are ones of those people no one listens to, but that doesn't stop you from liking to hear yourself talk.
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