re: Mississippi District Court Judge with an interesting opinion re: felon in possession laws

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The distinction is that the offender registry does not raise concerns under the 2nd Amendment.

Of course, the registry might well raise DIFFERENT Constitutional concerns. I've never really analyzed that question.

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This is where I'm at. Of course I get the 2A version, but not sure I agree with others that the right of privacy isn't an Constitutional right. I would say I think a lot of the 2A argument of "Its none of your business FED how many guns I have" is based on the right to privacy. Same for laws against having my phone tapped willy nilly by the govt.

Its a tough call since I obviously want there to be restrictions on the child molester, but hard to say that a known murder that got out because some leftie DA is releasing people because of "equity" should have legal access to guns. Obviously it really doesn't matter cause they'll get a gun either way.

Its just hard for me to get over the fact that the felon knows the rules going into doing their crime, and then complaining about the rules. IE...everybody knows the laws against felons having guns, so don't do the crime if you want to keep that right.

Now to make it more tolerable for some...I don't agree that a financial crimes felon should have this right taken away, as they have their own long term penalties for their crime specifically. I'm more talking about gun related and/or harmful crimes.