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The reason a felon shoudn't legal buy a firearm is because they can't follow the rules of a civil society. Their loss of rights should be a deterent for them not to commit a crime.
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Ah, but have you seen the things that are punished as felonies these days? In some areas, I can become a felon for screwing up badly enough on my taxes, for a minor youthful indiscretion with drugs, or for writing a check I didn't have the funds to clear.
In the old days, felonies were seen as serious, harmful crimes. Nowadays, we've got a lot of
malum prohibitum laws that make felonies out of less serious offenses. By the original definition, I might agree. By our modern definition, I simply cannot.