Does Tom Dart Know His Concealed Carry Plan Will Hurt Poor Blacks and Latinos?

Basic economics teaches that when one prices something high that few will be sold.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has proposed that Cook County residents be charged $300 to apply for a concealed carry license. That’s what the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

That will keep poor blacks and Latinos, not to mention white people from being able to legally protect themselves.

Charging $300 to apply for a concealed carry permit in Cook County, as Sheriff Tom Dart proposes, will effectively price honest poor people out of the ability to protect themselves from gang bangers.

Charging $300 to apply for a concealed carry permit in Cook County, as Sheriff Tom Dart proposes, will effectively price honest poor people out of the ability to protect themselves from gang bangers.

The cover of John Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime," 2010 edition.John Lott made that point in is “More Guns, Less Crime” (review here of most recent 2010 edition).

It is so intuitive that I wonder if any of the liberal commentators will pick up on what appears to be racial discrimination.

The article tells of Dart speaking “to elderly people in the south suburbs. They complained that the police were unresponsive. Some said they were regularly burglarized while they attended church.”

Does he think elderly people have $300 to spare in order to exercise a Constitutional Right?

The Federal Appellate Court decision granting concealed carry rights to Illinois residents does not say that poor people have less of a right than middle class and rich people to carry guns to protect themselves.

As the decision says,

“The Supreme Court has decided that the [Second A]mendment confers a right to bear arms for self-defense, which is as important outside the home as inside.”

Dart said the $300 fee would pay for administrative fees.”


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Does Tom Dart Know His Concealed Carry Plan Will Hurt Poor Blacks and Latinos? — 2 Comments

  1. that is the whole idea. to keep blacks and others from getting the protection they have a right too.

    this amounts to a poll tax to exercise your rights

    this was tried a few yours back with the permits in chicago by restricting handgun permits by zipcode

    then j-fled tried to control with a firearms list of firearms that could not be owned everyone of them was like the inexspensive bersa and jimnez type pistols he refered to them as “saturday night specials”

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