Jeff Sessions’ Brutal Legacy

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

Politics, News

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🗓️ 25 November 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Guns in general, and American gun culture in particular, have created a horrific bloodbath. But much of the liberal gun control movement has, in concert with the NRA and Republican Right, worked to make the war on guns a central facet of mass incarceration. The upshot is that we have the worst of both worlds: a society flooded with guns, where the paradigmatic white "good guy with a gun" treasures his weapons as a bedrock constitutional right even as the supposed "bad guys with a gun," often black men with a felony record, are mercilessly prosecuted for carrying. Dan talks to reporter George Joseph, who has a new piece up at Slate on former Attorney General Jeff Sessions' war on guns, which has led to a sharp increase in federal gun prosecutions—often hitting ordinary black men with felony records who are simply carrying for their own protection. Thanks to University of California Press. Check out their excellent catalogue of books at ucpress.edu Support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

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2:00.2	Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.
2:04.4	My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
2:10.0	We've talked about guns a lot before, and I hate guns.
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