>>If I were a policeman and I came across someone with an illegal weapon of any kind I certainly would arrest them and if I were a DA I would prosecute them.
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>OK, fair enough. Going to ask that you read this.
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>http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/10/02/gun-control-more-racial-disparities-than-the-drug-war/
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>Here's the number of the day. 47.3%. 47.3 percent of those convicted for federal gun crimes...a racial disparity bigger than any other type of federal crime.
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>Think about that...and then think about those (the Ta-Nehisi Coates supporters, etc.) who decry the disproportionate stats on race and criminal charges and convictions).
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>I'm with you on your original point. But remember that you (not you personally, but the royal "you") can't have it both ways.

You'd have to be living in a pigeon coop not to know that economic and social minorities have higher crime rates.
New York jails during the 1920's and 1930's were filled with Irish, Jewish and Italian children of recent immigrants trying to assimilate into a hostile environment.
After the great migrations blacks and Hispanics replaced them on the bottom of the ladder and the statistics reflect that shift.

For kicks, read what Henry David Thoreau, the flaming abolitionist, had to say about the Irish who were trying to find a way of life here during the 1850's.