The result: Some convicted felons who've been caught with a gun are already trying to shield themselves under Amendment 5.
Gun nuts may have felt great protecting their own interests, but they also threw into question longstanding Missouri gun restrictions, such as the ban on convicted felons carrying a firearm – all out of a belief, again unsupported by solid evidence, that the Obama administration has hatched a conspiracy to pry guns away from sane, law-abiding citizens.
Some other democracies take voting rights away from felons in prison, but America is the only one that goes on refusing to let people vote after the end of their sentences.According to a new report by Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organisation based in New York, the results are astonishing; and, because of the high proportion of black men in prison, heavily lopsided.
Chicago's PSN includes tough gun policing, federal prosecutions and most important, or so researchers found meetings with former felons to deter them from returning to crime.
Many of the counties with the highest number of voter errors were under Democratic control.Third, the commission is far from even-handed when it comes to dealing with felons.
The governor claims the true number is 26,000 criminals and says it "will flood our streets with thousands of dangerous felons, including rapists, child molesters and murderers".
America is also one of the few countries to ban felons and, in some states, ex-felons from voting.
Sound arguments in favour of disenfranchising felons are hard to come by; advocates instead seem to prefer arguing against those who oppose felon disenfranchisement.
Ultimately, the best argument he and Mr Clegg can produce is that laws permanently disenfranchising felons are not unconstitutional.
Until then, police had relied on local communities to recognise a bad apple in their midst, but now the felons were on the move, wreaking havoc in communities which had no knowledge of their past and hence no reason to be wary.
I happen to feel the same way about all my relations, who, in spite of my best efforts, are not disenfranchised felons.
