The Democrats’ emphasis on gun control shifts the focus away from the vast majority of so-called gun violence, the continuous train of atrocities committed primarily by young black men and other minorities in our demoralized inner cities. The rhetoric of “gun violence” obscures these crimes by focusing on the tool and averting attention from who is committing crimes and how often. On the other hand, they say we have too many people in prison—particularly “people of color”—and that we need to open up the prisons and can do so without endangering society. Democrats never imagine doing this kind of confiscation effort in the ghetto, where genuinely dangerous “felon in possession” cases are ignored............https://www.amgreatness.com/2019/09/17/why-soft-on-crime-democrats-are-tough-on-gun-violence/
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