It's always ironic how most gun control reform passes under Conservatives. The major Californian gun control reform that started the discussion about open carry? Ronald Reagan. Michigan's crackdown on closed carry licenses? Passed by Republican legislatures.
Gun control gets passed with ease under Republican control because it disproportionately affects people of color. California laws? Was used to remove weapons of colored communities' community watch groups. Michigan and New York gun control is used to and frisk citizens of weapons under the guise of certifying concealed weapon permits.
A full analysis of ten years of ATF stings done in the mid 2000s found that 91% of people arrested were people of color.
Between 2004 and 2012, 4.4 million New Yorkers were stopped in search for firearms... Only 1.15% of them were found to have weapons.
Gun control is one of those unique issues where more of it incarcerates people of color disproportionately, while less of it disproportionately kills people of color and barely protects the rights for people of color.
In Florida (jokes aside about Florida), Marissa Alexandra received a twenty year sentence for shooting her abusive husband despite Florida's stand your ground laws that explicitly provided her the right to shoot.
