National Review The Racist Reality of Gun Control

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Gun control disproportionately impacts the poor and minorities and puts them at greater risk of prosecution. So why is it that progressives, who like to think of themselves as champions of the “people,” are always pushing for stricter gun-control laws?
In January 2016, New York mayor Bill de Blasio created “Project Fast Track” to aggressively pursue all firearms cases in New York. Defendants in that court are overwhelmingly young black males who are charged with simply possessing an illegal firearm — not using it or committing any violent crime. The majority in these cases have never been convicted of a felony.

It’s a local snapshot of a broader picture. Nationally, while black Americans amount to only 13 percent of the population, they receive 51 percent of all felony firearm-possession convictions. A number of these cases may in fact be connected to more nefarious criminal activity. And given the crime wave sweeping U.S. cities, prosecutors should be pursuing violent crimes wherever they can.
But minorities and those living in poor areas are much more likely to experience crime, especially violent crime, compared with their fellow citizens. These individuals are in particular need of the ability to defend themselves, and they have the same right to do so as someone living in a safe, upper-class suburb; and yet gun-control laws eviscerate this right for vulnerable Americans in several ways.
First, gun control operates as an economic barrier for many poor Americans. Buying a firearm is expensive and is made even more expensive when cities enforce stringent restrictions, especially extensive transfer and background-check fees.
The federal government has made it almost completely illegal to buy a gun except through a licensed firearms dealer. These dealers charge a fee to perform the federally mandated transfer — fees paid by the buyer.
In some places, those transfer fees are very costly. A new, entry-level handgun typically costs less than $200. But in Dallas, Texas, it will cost you about $25 more to have a dealer complete the federally mandated firearm transfer. In Washington, D.C., it will cost you $125 — or more than 60 percent of the cost of the actual gun. For many, these fees put a lawful purchase beyond reach.

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Even if a disadvantaged individual could afford the gun itself, the financial barriers don’t end there.
New York City requires you to have a permit simply to keep a firearm in your home. Many states effectively prevent you from carrying that firearm outside your home. Either those states make the permits nearly impossible to get, like New York’s “may issue” permit system that is currently under review by the U.S. Supreme Court, or the state makes it so costly as to prohibit most people from affording the permit — a California carry permit, if you can get it, will cost around $300, and you must renew it every two years.
In addition, gun-control laws are not equally enforced in upscale neighborhoods. No one strolling through Beverly Hills or down 5th Avenue in New York is worried about being searched for a firearm. We all know where those “stop-and-frisk” pat-downs are more likely to take place, and for whom. And those are the individuals in de Blasio’s “Project Fast Track.”
To be clear, this disparity is not new.
The entire history of gun control has been hellbent on depriving minorities of their rights. Before the founding of the United States, some colonies prohibited freedmen, slaves, and indentured servants from possessing firearms. Others prevented Catholics from gun ownership. Massachusetts prohibited gunsmiths from repairing or selling firearms to Native Americans.
Despite being lauded as a progressive necessity, gun control, at its core, has always been discriminatory against ethnic, political, and religious minorities, as well as the poorest members of our society.
Gun control, further, does not make dangerous neighborhoods safer. Instead, it forces the disadvantaged to choose between abiding by gun-control laws or defending their own families.
The solution is for the government to stop making it so difficult and so expensive for people to defend themselves.
We must recognize that all Americans have an equal right to defend themselves, regardless of race or income.



Precisely the point - fascist DPST's do not want Americans to defend themselves against their imposition of marxist totalitarianism - and that is precisely the thrust of their efforts to enforce their own Voter fraud (HR-1), hyperspending to hyperinflation, and lining their own political party funds with taxpayer monies.

There are now likely 20 million Ar-15's in American - many in Middle America - and when fiden and his brownshirt terrorists show up to confiscate our legally held weapons - the fiden marxist revolutionaries will get a warm Constitutional response!!!!

I needs gun

I just want shot many people like thughs, coid.

one wonders why there aren't lawsuits against certain gun control tax laws that are unconsitutional infringement.

" infringement"

Item f of teh DOJ firearms transaction record - ATF form 4473


Yes/No f. Have you ever been adjudicated as a mental defective OR have you ever been committed to a mental institution?


Some should not possess weapons.

They seriously use the term “a mental defective”?

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/44...53009/download

I believe "gun control" is a misnomer. Should be "gun confiscation"!

at this point, is there ANYTHING that isn't RAYCISS?

It's like rule 34. If it exists, it's RAYCISS!. No exceptions.

Rule 34 of teh 'Secret fascist DPST party Platforms"


If it is conservative, republican, or Libertarian - It is Racist by its' existence.
fiden political history is exempted.

in my county in NY. to get a carry permit

3 to 6 months if you live in a town
city in same county 1.5 years or longer

An un seen bias in gun control laws here in Texas:

Texas is now one of the most un gun control states, allowing open carry without a permit etc. Yet businesses are allowed to post a stste approved sign prohibiting open or concieled carry of a firearm on their premises. I am ok with that in principle and it does not adversly affect most people, they just leave their gun locked in their car . However, if a person cannot or does not drive this does affect them.

I, myself, cannot drive a car due to a disability. This means that I get around townby bus, taxi or ride-share. If I want to go into a business that is posted, I cannot just lock up my firearm in the car. This means that either I am in gross vilation of the law (no longer a law abiding gun owner) or I travel unarmed.