There’s no two ways about it: The United States of America and its 50 state governments love putting people in prison.
The U.S. has both the highest number of prisoners and the highest per capita incarceration rate in the modern world at 655 adults per 100,000. (It’s worth noting that China’s incarceration statistics are dubious, and they execute far more people than the United States. Indeed, the so-called People’s Republic executes more people annually than the rest of the world combined.) Still, that’s more than 2.2 million Americans in state and federal prisons as well as county jails.
On top of those currently serving time, 4.7 million Americans were on parole in 2016, or about one in 56. These numbers do not include people on probation, which raises the number to one in 35. Nor does it include all of the Americans who have been arrested at one time or another, which is over 70 million – more than the population of France.
For firearm owners in particular, the growth in this “prison-industrial complex” is troubling because felons are forbidden from owning firearms and ammunition under the 1968 Gun Control Act. As the number of laws has grown and the cultural shift for police has gone from a focus on keeping the peace to enforcing the law, more and more Americans are being stripped of their 2nd Amendment rights (not to mention other civil rights like voting – as of 2017, 6.1 million Americans cannot vote because of their criminal records). All told, eight percent of all Americans cannot own firearms because of a felony conviction.
For American society as a whole, the prison-industrial complex has created a perverse incentive structure. Bad laws drive out respect for good laws because there are just so many laws (not to mention rules, regulations, and other prohibitions used by federal prosecutors to pin crimes on just about anyone). How did we get here?
Read the rest here: https://ammo.com/articles/prison-industrial-complex-disarming-america
For American society as a whole, the prison-industrial complex has created a perverse incentive structure. Bad laws drive out respect for good laws because there are just so many laws (not to mention rules, regulations, and other prohibitions used by federal prosecutors to pin crimes on just about anyone). How did we get here?
YOU MEAN…. YOU REALLY “DONT KNOW??????????
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
BULL-SHIT!!!!
I SMELL BULLSHIT!!!
We have more people lock up than the communist chinese and we are suppose to be so free what a bunch of crap.
Tell a lie long enough and some people actually believe it syndrome. A few doses of Henry and that illusion quickly fades.
“… felons are forbidden from owning firearms and ammunition under the 1968 Gun Control Act.”
And THAT piece of BLATANT INFRINGEMENT & TREASON is what brought us to point…
“A 12-year-old Kansas girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs and charged with a felony — for making a finger gun with her hands,… ”
A 12 YR. OLD WILL NOT BE ‘ALLOWED’ TO OWN A REAL GUN BECAUSE SHE POINTED A FINGER AT SOME OTHER CHILDREN?????
THESE PSYCHOS ALL NEED TO BE HUNG… FORTHWITH!!!!! 😡
I WOULD BUY HER ONE, IM NOT SCARED OF THESE ASSHOLES………….
If she’s free ( not incarcerated ) she can own a gun
Second article says so
Fuk what the feds and pissant politicians and cuck held cops say
Any Free Man has the right to protect themselves with any tool they see fit for the job
I’m still working my way toward my A1M1