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Policing the Second Amendment - Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race (Paperback)
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Policing the Second Amendment - Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race (Paperback)
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An urgent look at the relationship between guns, the police, and
race The United States is steeped in guns, gun violence-and gun
debates. As arguments rage on, one issue has largely been
overlooked-Americans who support gun control turn to the police as
enforcers of their preferred policies, but the police themselves
disproportionately support gun rights over gun control. Yet who do
the police believe should get gun access? When do they pursue
aggressive enforcement of gun laws? And what part does race play in
all of this? Policing the Second Amendment unravels the complex
relationship between the police, gun violence, and race. Rethinking
the terms of the gun debate, Jennifer Carlson shows how the
politics of guns cannot be understood-or changed-without
considering how the racial politics of crime affect police
attitudes about guns. Drawing on local and national newspapers,
interviews with close to eighty police chiefs, and a rare look at
gun licensing processes, Carlson explores the ways police talk
about guns, and how firearms are regulated in different parts of
the country. Examining how organizations such as the National Rifle
Association have influenced police perspectives, she describes a
troubling paradox of guns today-while color-blind laws grant
civilians unprecedented rights to own, carry, and use guns, people
of color face an all-too-visible system of gun criminalization.
This racialized framework-undergirding who is "a good guy with a
gun" versus "a bad guy with a gun"-informs and justifies how police
understand and pursue public safety. Policing the Second Amendment
demonstrates that the terrain of gun politics must be reevaluated
if there is to be any hope of mitigating further tragedies.
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