This is one issue I lean more libertarian on.
If you've done the crime and the time, and jumped thru all the govts hoops, you should be allowed to vote.
Yes that sucks to have convicted felons, maybe even violent ones voting, but I don't like giving the govt the ability to play puppet master with people's right to vote.
I kinda agree with you on this...
The other side of the story: I have friends that had a wildly misspent yoot, much like myself, other than the bare fact that they got caught at it, and wound up doing time... I have said before, there but for the Grace of God go I...
The thing is, after getting out and settlin down, Such men have eschewed their former life, being fine husbands and fathers, family men, church goers, and generally speaking, nearly model citizens.
That such men as these, whose mistakes in yootful exuberance have taught them, arguably more so that those who stayed on the straight and narrow, that such men cannot vote and must dance around firearm ownership (living where firearms are almost literally life... subsistence hunting) is a crying shame.
I don't know where that line should be drawn, or how bold that line should be, but where it is now is not right.