I guess it depends on our definition of "racist" ... if one race commits more violent crime, and an area has a lot of people of that race and therefore has a lot of violent crime, and laws are passed in an attempt to address the violent crime problem ... some people call that "racist".
I am a White middle aged Male who currently resides and ranches in a county of colorado so rural that in spite of having a major highway thro it ( US 287 ) does not have a single stoplight , or bypass . We per capita have few minoritys , and fewer violent crimes which are mostly done by drunken white teens and rise to the level of a bloody nose . We have a homocide every 30 to 40 years and a social dispute involving guns every 3 or 4 so i am in no place to comment on any race being more violent than any other . I do however see folks on fixed incomes that dont meet the bills , and in fact have done some ftf purchaces of " family heirlooms " which i always try and price just on the cheap side of fair which has been $400+ more than the other " gun nuts " in the area offered on a few items ( my rule of thumb is to offer $50 less than i can get for it tomorrow or $100 less than i can get for it if i have to hang onto it for a while given a collectible, but i once paid $250 for a junk iver johnson while leaving a nice browning .25 just because the lady needed the $$ and this way she was not " begging the .gov " which was something she said to me .
Point is taking her as an example had she sold her functional pistol there is no way she could have possibly replaced it with anything . Granted a .25 isnt much but she got it from her nightstand to show it to me hoping i would buy ONE of them . She also was white . Tho we here have " lax " gunlaws according to the progressive thinkers they had virtually succeeded in disarming her and many like her . This is the hidden face of gun control , and the point of my original post . We mostly laff at Davis , Jennings , Bryco , High Point , some of us Kel-Tec as a few examples of guns we dont want to own . However many have went out of business and i assure you it was not lack of sales , rather legislation . When spending an extra $75 means a single mom and kids eat " mac and cheese" for a month as a balanced meal well you start to grasp what it costs to put teeth in that piece of paper the court hands out ( restraining order ) . Folks here still hurt other folks , steal from other folks , albeit at a lower per capita rate because parents here still parent . Poor folks here however are also affected by gun legislation just like poor folks in the citys . A ccw in Colorado costs $150.00 to apply for the first time , just how out of reach is that for many . Even many " middle class " who live check to check would have to save for a $150 out of pocket due to debts ( or go to the mentioned mac and cheese , possibly with sale tuna lol ) . Racist gun control...., well where YOU live it might be , where i live it affects the folks who dont have much and are just trying to get by without regard to race and hell all we get is trickle down effects as we have no local and few state laws in colorado , tho that will change as more escape CA to the front range and become a " voting block " Its funny how they want out of CA but want to bring CA with them to CO lol .
'd be willing to wager that, if people were honest, most participants on TFL have not read the amici nor the dissenting opinion for Heller -- and have, at most, merely skimmed through the majority decision in that case.
Pax you are partially right lol I have not read all the briefs pre heller , and am only now ( having carefully read the majority opinion ) getting beyond the skim of the dissents . Its a tough read for me because frankly i am having trouble "connecting the dots" in the dissent opinions as well as making sense of the majority opinion as authored . Some of both opinions strike me as grade school playground taunts rather than scholarly discussion . I guess tho in the day of soundbytes this is what our republic is reduced to . As a person who is proud to hold a GED ( read that how you will , but i am not a " well educated man, in fact i consider myself one step above functionally illiterate" tho i have taken some college courses which were all passed dealing with LE , constitutional law( as it applys to LE ) , and computing i am frankly surprised as to the way this opinion was written on both sides . I expected better . Not more concise , rather less sniping at the other side by both the majority opinion and the dissent . What ever happened to " We can be gentlemen and agree to disagree ? " especially among our scholars and justices .