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Disparity In Gun Laws

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Last year, Shaneen Allen, was stopped by New Jersey police for making an unsafe lane change. She informed the officer that she was a resident of Pennsylvania and had a concealed carry permit, and that she had a handgun in the car as well. Allen, a black single mother of two and clear of any previous criminal record decided to purchase a handgun after being robbed twice in a one year span. There isn 't any evidence to prove Allen had any intentions of doing anything harmful with the gun. However, she had to spend 40 days in jail before being released on bail and had to undergo various charges before finally being pardoned. Allen 's case isn 't unusual, if anything, it 's incredibly common. Although some do become victims of overly broad gun …show more content…

According to the Bureau of Justice, weapon arrests are 5 times greater for blacks compared to whites; numbers reading 69 for whites and 430 for blacks. Progressives will argue that the disparity reflects on the institutional racism in the criminal justice system. Others say the disparity is due to the fact that black people are disproportionately more likely to commit such crimes. There 's truth to both, yet there 's no disputing the figures. Much of it comes down to professional discretion. When a person victimizes another person with a gun, the person has already committed a crime. Under many state and federal laws, it is an additional crime to use or possess a gun while doing something that is already a crime. Gun control advocates argue that we should crack down on gun offenders; however, we already go after those who rob banks and commit murder. Instead, they’re proposing we go after individuals who have guns;

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The author’s studies indicate that the criminal justice system choose majority of their targets and suspects predominantly by race. According to studies conducted by the U. S Department of Justice, the imprisonment rate by race per 100,000 residents over 3,000 black males were imprisoned in the year 2000 compared to white males imprisonment rate of less than 500. This shows that conviction of crime, robbery, murder, and other violence and drug related crimes has a clear discrepancy across racial groups.

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Source A argues that disparities between blacks and whites have been appalling in court. According to Source A, “If a black person kills a white person, they are twice as likely to receive the death sentence as white person who kills a black person” (2). This reveals that a black person has a higher rate of receiving the death sentence when tried for murdering a white person. If a white person is tried for a killing of a black person they have a 50% chance of getting the death sentence, then that means that a black person would receive a 100% chance of getting the death sentence for killing a white person.

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Fast forward to the present day, we have the Ferguson, Mike Brown of Emmitt Till’s still occurring in our justice system. A person must view the criminal justice threw a godly telescope to see the inequalities that exit, and need to come to the forefront of our government, and the population worldwide. Sentencingproject.org statistically show that African American men, women, and juvenile are arrested more often than any other races across the nations. This report will prove, and argues that racial disparity in the justice system is at large in our system. This research paper will further explain, and presents evidence that display the presence of racial bias in the criminal justice system in America.

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In recent news, police are being heavily criticized for their amount of force used being motivated by the race of the victim. Here are some statistics. Black people make up 13% of the U.S. population and white people make up 64%. Also black people make up 40% of the prison population whereas white people only 39%. This means that even though there are five times as many white people than there are blacks in the United States, blacks still make up more of the prison population.

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Strict regulations and limitations have been pursued already and clearly do not suffice. Statics brought to attention by gun control opponents, show that gun control laws have done little to reduce crime rates. Several restrictions have been made on certain guns, considered as overly dangerous, though in the hands of an unstable criminal even a legal hunting gun can be deadly. Countless restrictions have been made, however people have still found ways around them. If people are unstable and determined enough, they will find a gun, regardless of the restrictions or regulations.

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