Gun control laws are RACIST

San Francisco CA

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Consider these questions: * Which racial groups suffer the most as a result of extreme gun-control laws? * When politicians pass new gun-control laws, who is most affected? * What does "institutional racism" have to do with gun laws? Here’s the answer: When elected officials pass increasingly extreme gun laws, with harsh penalties, the results show that it’s people of color, especially Black men, who suffer the effects and are disproportionately incarcerated the most because of it. Take a look at some facts: In the 2018 fiscal year, 56.2 percent of those convicted of federal firearms violations were Black and 96.3 percent were men. The average age of convicted persons was 32. In the 2016 fiscal year, “Black offenders were convicted of a firearms offense carrying a mandatory minimum and subject to that penalty more often than any other racial group (52.6 percent and 53.8 percent, respectively),” according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission. In 2017, the California Department of Corrections reported that 28.5 percent of the state’s male prisoners were African-American when only 5.6 percent of California’s adult male population is Black. -- Kamala Harris had a hand in putting many of them away in prison. More than 20 percent of prisoners in federal prisons have weapons offenses. In California, the incarceration rate for African Americans is 3,036 out of 100,000, compared to 453 per 100,000 for White people and 757 per 100,000 for Hispanics. A disproportionately high percentage of people of color are serving time in California and federal jails charged with crimes related to firearms. Prosecutors are using California’s severe gun laws to ensure they can get convictions with long sentences. Now, the Biden administration is looking to spread California-style extreme gun laws to all 50 states. We should be worried. California has more laws controlling gun ownership and use than any other state in the country. Each law carries severe penalties and creates more opportunities than any state in the country, to unintentionally break gun laws. Criminalizing gun ownership will not decrease crime statistics, but will increase the number of people charged with gun crimes. What was a simple traffic stop yesterday will turn into a 10-year felony gun conviction tomorrow, with the Democrat's new gun laws. FACT: The more laws we have that turn people into felons for possessing firearms, the more "institutional racism" will grow. Terms like “keeping guns off the street” and “keeping guns out of the wrong hands” are merely dog whistles for policies that target and destroy the lives of people of color, especially young, Black men. As a result of the Democrat's policies, families and communities of color are being irreparably destroyed. Democrats don't care. They'll use it to their political advantage somehow. They blame their failed policies on Republicans all the time. The Biden administration, Nancy Pelosi House, and Chuck Schumer Senate want to spread California’s institutional racism across the country. We have already seen in California that bans on firearms and bans on normal capacity magazines do little more than create more ways to increase those in our overcrowded jails and destroy Black and Brown communities. In 2017, a study showed that “assault weapon” bans had NO significant effect on firearm homicides. Another study concluded that universal background checks in California made NO difference in firearm suicide or homicide rates. The gun laws the Biden administration is pushing for, do NOT decrease violent crime. Instead, Biden will simply destroy more lives by putting more people of color in jail and for longer sentences. Personally, I believe this is exactly what Biden and the Democrats want; More people of color in jail and they'll simply blame it on someone else Bans on semi-automatic rifles (so-called “assault weapon bans”) have NOT decreased violent crime. The fact is, rifles of all types are used in less than 400 homicides each year, while pistols are used thousands of times per year. If passed, extreme gun-control laws will continue to be used disproportionately against people of color and incarcerate them for the better part of their lives. I am opposed to severe gun laws, because those laws are RACIST against blacks and brown people. When the government passes racist laws, THAT is what we call "Institutionalized Racism".