I’m for the Second Amendment, and against normalizing felons. If people screw up big time, they should be “branded.” No second, third, fourth etc., chances!

They made the choice to be criminals. Trust is earned. You don’t earn trust by sitting in prison. Give them a chance to prove they can get along with society. Stats say they’ll be back in prison. Why would people ignore this? Ideology?

But a new study shows how previous incarceration increases those odds many-fold: Ten years after release, 82% of state prisoners had been arrested again—an average of nearly seven arrests each.

The majority of those prisoners, 62%, had also returned to prison. Those are just two takeaways from a ten-year study of prisoner recidivism released in September 2021 by the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice.

That’s not a Second Amendment supporter.

I concur.