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Gun control groups like Moms Demand Action have staunchly supported red flag laws. (Photo: Everytown for Gun Safety Facebook)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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A new paper published this week in Injury Epidemiology <\/em>suggests that extreme risk protection order (ERPO) laws \u2013 otherwise known as red flag laws \u2013 will discriminate disproportionately against people of color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paper\u2019s author, Duke sociologist Jeffrey W. Swanson, argues<\/a> that saving lives shouldn\u2019t be the only metric in determining whether or not red flag laws constitute good public policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIs it possible that implicit racial bias could infect ERPO petitions, the court\u2019s decisions to grant them, or the behavior of the police in carrying them out? If that turned out to be true, how might it recast the evidence that ERPOs save lives?\u201d he asks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swanson is careful to point out that not enough data has been collected on red flag laws to form any definitive conclusion, but he nonetheless cites a red flag study from Seattle that found black people were overrepresented in gun removal orders by a factor of nearly 2 to 1 compared to their share of the county population (12.0% vs. 6.9%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While white people were also overrepresented (74.7% vs. 66.9%), the disparity in the black community was proportionally much greater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Virginia Uses Red Flag Law for the First Time to Confiscate Firearms<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

He also cited a study he had conducted in Marion County, Indiana, that found that a significantly higher percentage of nonwhite individuals failed to appear at a scheduled court hearing to seek the return of their guns, and thus lost their guns by default (63% vs. 51%;\u00a0p<\/em>\u2009<\u20090.05).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swanson is no gun rights proponent. He worries at one point in the paper that right-wing politicians will use his findings to discredit red flag laws, which he believes save lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, he notes the racist roots of gun control laws in the United States and urges readers to stop oversimplifying the gun control debate by considering the \u201ccomplex social pathologies around gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe history of gun control laws in the United States (as with the history of every other social institution in this country) is intertwined with a legacy of white supremacy and racial injustice,\u201d he says. \u201cA century later, national surveys still find a substantial difference between racial groups in gun ownership and access, with about half of white respondents but only one third of black respondents reporting gun access at home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: A Single Florida County Seized 412 Guns Last Year Under the State\u2019s Red Flag Law<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Swanson explains this disparity, in part, by citing a 1919 may-issue pistol permit requirement in North Carolina. The law allowed any county sheriff to deny a permit to a person he deemed not to have \u201cgood moral character,\u201d which calls to mind today\u2019s version of may-issue schemes that require \u201cgood cause.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s doubtful that gun control advocates will halt their pursuit of red flag laws even if they are racially discriminatory. Swanson himself hypothesizes that red flag laws could \u201csave many young black lives\u201d even as they discriminate against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But at least someone is asking the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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