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Progressive Gun-Control Crackup
Defense lawyers ask the Supreme Court to affirm gun rights.
Opinion | Progressive Gun-Control Crackup
Defense lawyers ask the Supreme Court to affirm gun rights.
www.wsj.com
For the elite left, opposition to gun rights is in part a cultural statement of antipathy to red-state values. Yet a small but important part of the progressive coalition—criminal-defense lawyers—can’t afford to treat gun laws as one more culture-war bludgeon. Hence a remarkable amicus brief by a coalition of defense lawyers for the indigent, led by the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid, asking the Supreme Court to expand gun rights in the Second Amendment case it will decide next term...
the brief from the criminal defense lawyers, which includes the Bronx Defenders and the Brooklyn Defender Services, argues against the state’s gun laws from a progressive position. “In 2020, while Black people made up 18% of New York’s population, they accounted for 78% of the state’s felony gun possession cases,” the brief says.
It notes that for a defendant, separately having ammunition makes a gun loaded—and that possessing a “loaded” gun without a permit, even if not used, is a “violent felony” that carries a 3.5 to 15-year prison sentence... the defense lawyers also argue that their indigent clients have been wrongfully punished for having guns at home...
America’s gentry progressives figure that gun control should unite their base... Yet more may be realizing the contradiction between gun-control cultural politics and the left’s new criminal-justice priorities. A fissure on gun politics could be coming.
Comment:
“In 2020, while Black people made up 18% of New York’s population, they accounted for 78% of the state’s felony gun possession cases,” the brief says.
I thought "White Supremacy" was to blame.
It appears that the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats use “racial disparity” to destroy things they don’t like, e.g. merit-based things in schools, but remain silent on things they wish to keep, e.g. gun control laws which are often disproportionally violated by certain protected classes.
I'm a advocate of the only type of gun control that actually works: Arrest the criminals. Put them in jail and keep them there. While they are in jail they won’t have access to guns.
PMS/DSA Democrats are opposed to the only kind of gun control that actually works. In the 1990s Rudi Giuliani was Mayor of NY and he implemented a stop and frisk policy. The stop and frisk policy is a form of gun control. You stop them, frisk them and if you find a gun then you arrest them. It worked. But the Dems would have nothing of it and now they’ve got a rampant crime problem.
In fact the majority of felons caught in armed robberies or assaults with deadly weapons are seldom if ever are convicted on Federal charges.
See:
Legal Definition of Possession Of Unregistered Firearm
The Legal Term * Possession Of Unregistered Firearm * Defined & Explained
www.lectlaw.com
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Federal Firearms Laws
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Gun control laws won’t stop crime if you don’t enforce them against the criminals. PMS/DSA Democrat Commies want to pass gun control but they won’t enforce those laws against criminals. Enforce the laws on the books before you pass any more.
