It's not about the "populace" doing anything at scale.
It's about making abusing people under color of law come with a fairly significant chance that there will eventually be a body that was formerly on government payroll that needs to be explained away thereby making such activity much less lucrative.
>Gun rights have done nothing positive for America.
Despite being 13% of the population black men have been rounded up 0% of the time. There's two ethnic groups that can't say that, well, three depending on how you count.
> They tossed a bunch of Japanese in camps and right now they're going after immigrants real hard.
I think if you look at the entire history of the US, you'll find they've been going after Black people real hard the entire time, and that the root of mass incarceration was as a direct replacement for chattel slavery while the ink on the abolition of that institution was still wet, focussed on Black people, who have been vastly disproportionately its target ever since.
It's about making abusing people under color of law come with a fairly significant chance that there will eventually be a body that was formerly on government payroll that needs to be explained away thereby making such activity much less lucrative.
>Gun rights have done nothing positive for America.
Despite being 13% of the population black men have been rounded up 0% of the time. There's two ethnic groups that can't say that, well, three depending on how you count.