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(AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane) Many anti-gunners have long claimed that if black folks started buying guns, your average Second Amendment advocate would start calling for gun control. It’s their bit to try and claim that we’re all secretly–or not so secretly, depending on who you talk to–racist.
And based on how folks in California started passing gun control after the Black Panthers showed up armed way back in the day, there’s a reason they think that.
However, that was then, this is now. Times have changed a lot since then but their opinions haven’t.
Unfortunately, those comments and opinions have been debunked. Not by a Second Amendment writer or YouTube personality or anyone like that.
They’ve been debunked by reality . During the pandemic, gun and ammunition sales spiked dramatically in the United States — particularly among Black women, who have become the fastest growing group of gun owners in the country. “In 2021, we were just coming outta COVID and violence was at an all-time high, riots were at an all-time high and human trafficking is at an all-time high,” licensed gun instructor Robin Evans tells Yahoo Life as a way to explain the rise. “So at that moment, I feel like there was a huge shift in Black people, in general, just wanting to learn how to defend themselves.” After noticing the increasing reports of violence against women in 2021, Evans founded Chicks with Triggers , a business dedicated to teaching women, and specifically Black women, how to safely use firearms. “When I got into this, there was no one who looked like me, and so I decided to create that lane for people to come and know that they have a safe space,” says Evans. “When I first started, I didn’t even know women would come. I thought maybe […]
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