So. We are paranoid to worry about them confiscating our guns, are we?

[khagler]

Here in the US someone convicted of a felony can't legally own firearms. That seemed reasonable 100 years ago, when a felony was something really serious like murder, rape, kidnapping, or armed robbery. Today, felonies include pretty much everything (filling in a mud puddle in your back yard or spilling gasoline while filling your lawn mower, for example) and that law hasn't changed. This, in conjunction with the push to declare everybody mentally ill, has led to increasing resistance to the idea of "prohibited persons."