Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
Editorials & Other Articles
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Gun Control & RKBA
Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump's Victory Has Fearful Minorities Buying Up Guns [View all]
Trump's Victory Has Fearful Minorities Buying Up Guns
After Donald Trump's win, Yolanda Scott is upgrading the crowbar she keeps in her purse to a small-caliber pistol.
Scott, an African-American, is one of many minorities who have been flocking to gun stores to protect themselves, afraid Trump's victory will incite more hate crimes.
Minorities "feel that racists now feel like they can attack... just because the president is doing it," Earl Curtis, the African-American owner of Blue Ridge Arsenal in Chantilly, Virginia, told NBC News.
Gun store owners told NBC News that since November 8 they're seeing up to four times as many black and minority customers and black gun groups are reporting double the normal number of attendees at their meetings since the election.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/trump-s-victory-has-fearful-minorities-buying-guns-n686881
After Donald Trump's win, Yolanda Scott is upgrading the crowbar she keeps in her purse to a small-caliber pistol.
Scott, an African-American, is one of many minorities who have been flocking to gun stores to protect themselves, afraid Trump's victory will incite more hate crimes.
Minorities "feel that racists now feel like they can attack... just because the president is doing it," Earl Curtis, the African-American owner of Blue Ridge Arsenal in Chantilly, Virginia, told NBC News.
Gun store owners told NBC News that since November 8 they're seeing up to four times as many black and minority customers and black gun groups are reporting double the normal number of attendees at their meetings since the election.
So who will change their rhetoric first-
the NRA saying everyone legally eligible should be allowed to own guns
or the Gun Control proponents that maintain every gun owner is an uneducated, pre-murderer, white wing wasist?
43 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
I'm curious - what exactly is "the mark" - that the NRA is against POC owning firearms? nt
jonno99
Dec 2016
#30
I asked one of the don't-reach-out-to-the-deplorables if he/she would work with tRump
Eleanors38
Dec 2016
#11
Sad it takes events like this to motivate people to be progressive on basic civil rights.
ileus
Dec 2016
#5
If one used the google search in the upper right hand corner for 'gun' and 'penis' on DU alone
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#20
Another trip down 'de Nial', where an attempted refutation instead serves as confirmation...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2016
#34
The "argument from (feigned) ignorance" schtick doesn't work on those who have seen it before:
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2016
#39