Gun Control -- More Racial Disparities Than the Drug War

From The American Interest via H/T at Instapundit:

If you support gun control, you want to throw more black men into prison.

Many gun control advocates seem to be under the impression that governments can pass new felony legislation that will take guns off the streets without requiring more aggressive policing, without putting more people in prison, and without the racial disparities in enforcement that characterize the rest of our criminal justice system. This is a fantasy: Gun control and tough-on-crime politics are two sides of the same coin. If governments are serious about cracking down on illegal guns in a meaningful way, they will need to use all of the same tools that they used to crack down on crime from the 1970s onward—tough criminal penalties (i.e., long prison sentences for offenders) and aggressive policing, especially in poor and minority neighborhoods that tend to have the highest rates of crime. Indeed, as Reason‘s A. Barton Hinkle pointed out, New York’s notorious stop-and-frisk policy, which left-wing mayor Bill DeBlasio led the charge against, was arguably one of the most effective gun control policies in the country.

The law of unintended consequences. As typical from most liberals, not thinking things through.

A prime example, by increasing the CAFE (Corporate average fuel economy) standard for cars, the amount of gas consumed drops, and UNEXPECTEDLY, the amount of gas taxes generated drops. Oooops!

Morons!