Schumer Predicts Wide Agreement On Universal Background Checks

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11. A lot of former prison inmates are denied the right to vote, and are prohibited from some jobs

For example, they can't become police officers or (at least in some states) public school teachers.

If something is a right, it should not be taken away at a whim. Then it ceases to be a right and becomes a privilege.

Due process of law is not the same thing as a whim, and someone who decides to commit a felony presumably knows that a conviction will result in the loss of certain rights. But I do agree with you in a sense - I think anyone who can't be trusted with a gun because of a violent criminal record shouldn't be let out of prison.

People who have been adjudicated by a court of law as mentally incompetent - for any reason - are also prohibited from possessing firearms. Would you want someone so afflicted by Alzheimer's disease that he or she is unable to manage his or her own affairs having a gun? I wouldn't. Of course you don't believe anyone "should" own guns, whatever that really means.