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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Saturday November 07 2020, @05:16PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 07 2020, @05:16PM (#1074174) Journal

    Is there anything that prevents someone in jail from running for president? Should the system discriminate? After all, as a nation, we seem to think it should be okay for violet felons to have guns.

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  • (Score: 2) by dry on Saturday November 07 2020, @06:08PM

    by dry (223) on Saturday November 07 2020, @06:08PM (#1074192) Journal

    Is there anything that prevents someone in jail from running for president?

    Not being American, I really don't know but with the American system routinely removing rights and segregating based on former actions, I assume so.

    Should the system discriminate?

      No. Not when someone paid their debt to society and kept their nose clean. Get out of prison, be a good citizen for 5 or 10 years, apply for a routine pardon and then it is illegal to be discriminated for a previous criminal record here. Of course at sentencing, the court can do things like put you on the sex offender list or order no owning firearms for X time for crimes involving sexual assault or fucking around with a firearm. It's somewhat rare though, not automatic.

    After all, as a nation, we seem to think it should be okay for violet felons to have guns.

    Around here, passing a law to target violent people (we got rid of the felon class a long time ago as it is feudal) would be unconstitutional. Guns aren't a right here, it's more like driving, takes a Judge, usually at sentencing, to remove that privilege in a targeted way. Government can't target groups of people by labeling them.