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The Nation Laments Black and White Americans Uniting Against Gun Control

The Nation is running a column this week which laments that black and white Americans have united in common cause against gun control.

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The Nation is running a column this week which laments that black and white Americans have united in common cause against gun control.

The column, written by the outlet’s justice correspondent, Elie Mystal, points out that a group of urban, black criminal defense attorneys have joined a fight against New York gun control that was heretofore led by “mostly upstate and rural” New Yorkers.

The black criminal defense attorneys are from “the Bronx Defenders, the Brooklyn Defender Services, and the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid.”

Mystal observes:

In a decent world, upstate white people and downstate Black people would agree about, I don’t know, the fundamental equality of all peoples, or the dignity of labor, or WAP, or literally anything else. The fact that these two interest groups have found common cause in obliterating state gun regulations is just a depressing example of why we can’t have nice things.

He goes on to note that he finds it “even more depressing” that the black attorney’s arguments against gun control are sound. He notes they “argue that New York’s gun licensing requirements unconstitutionally deprive poor people of their rights to bear arms and give law enforcement an excuse to harass and incarcerate otherwise law-abiding Black and brown citizens, severely penalizing them for the kind of minor misconduct white people routinely get away with.”

On July 18, 2021, Breitbart News observed Latino Rifle Association founder P.B. Gomez’s warning that new gun controls in San Jose, California, could hurt minorities. Gomez specifically focused on San Jose’s new liability insurance requirement for gun owners, suggesting that police’s approach to the insurance enforcement will impact the poor and people of color the most, as they are prone to police contact.

 

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He goes on to note that he finds it “even more depressing” that the black attorney’s arguments against gun control are sound. He notes they “argue that New York’s gun licensing requirements unconstitutionally deprive poor people of their rights to bear arms and give law enforcement an excuse to harass and incarcerate otherwise law-abiding Black and brown citizens, severely penalizing them for the kind of minor misconduct white people routinely get away with.”

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This is all spot on. Many of these liberal states make it basically impossible to get a carry permit, to excersize your God given Right guaranteed by the constitution, without being well off and well connected. It absolutely targets lower economic class citizens, which of course is disproportionately made up of minorities...by design, likely.

Gun control laws definitely have a history of being used to keep guns from black Americans, going back to the very first such laws. Glad people of all colors are waking up to the government oppression, and doing something about it.

 

[BurntJ]

This is NOT good news for Clemson.

 

[Jtrain80]

Now, here is some systematic racism that I would help fight! Americans of all skin colors and economic classes should have the same 2A rights.

 

[TopHook]

No, it because you touch yourself at night.