Posted on 08/07/2017 2:39:59 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When it comes to voting rights, any obstacles outrage liberals; even free government-issued IDs are viewed as disenfranchising poor and disproportionately black people. But when it comes to the right to own a gun for self-defense, liberals don't hesitate to pile on fees, ID requirements, expensive training and onerous background checks.
That's too bad, because many law-abiding citizens in crime-ridden neighborhoods really do need a gun for self-defense. Since poor, urban blacks are the most likely victims of violent crime, there is little doubt that they stand to benefit the most from owning guns. Research, including my own, has demonstrated this.
A new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center shows that the average fee for a concealed handgun permit is $67, but it is much higher in the most Democratic states. Each 10-percentage-point increase in a state's presidential vote for Hillary Clinton was associated with an additional $30 in the concealed handgun permit fee. In California, where Clinton won by about 30 points, fees can be as high as $385 for just two years. In New York City, where she won by 60 points, a three-year permit costs $430.
Dozens of published peer-reviewed studies have demonstrated that those who are the most likely victims of crime benefit the most from owning guns.
The cops can't be everywhere at once. Indeed, they rarely respond to live crime scenes at all. But unfortunately for poor people living in the country's most violent neighborhoods, Democrats just don't trust them with guns.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
There are hints/suspicions that the most elite & well-connected quietly pull strings to obtain new (aka “post-’86”) machineguns. There is a loophole, and I’m sure those with suitable friends & favors use it to get new ones at commodity prices instead of paying >20x for decades-used equivalents (if transferable ones exist at all).
I’m shocked he was to write this in the Chicago Tribune!
I’m shocked he was to write this in the Chicago Tribune!
Rush Limbaugh Newsletter Jan 2013 had points he was making on several topics- on gun control, this was his comments of how Democrats progress:
Fight begins: 1865,. Indeed, gun control is in the Democrat Party DNA, all the way back to its racist Civil War-era roots, when southern Democrats enacted “Black Codes” prohibiting emancipated slaves from owning guns or ammunition. Such blacks were only partly free; thanks to these Democrats, the core civil right of self defense was denied them.
A $200 .38 in the hands of every honest citizen would go a long ways toward crime suppression.
Gun control laws certainly violate the 14th amendment in that it restricts a Constitutional right to those who can afford it....
The first gun control laws were in the Jim Crow south... to prevent ex-slaves from defending themselves. Armed newly freed slaves would have been much harder to lynch.
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