About 8.5 million people in the US bought their first gun in 2020
More and more Black women are considering buying a gun for personal protection, industry experts and gun rights advocates told The Associated Press.Valerie Rupert, a 67-year-old grandmother from Detroit, is among 1,000 or so mostly Black women taking part in free weekend gun safety and shooting lessons at two Detroit-area ranges.
"I was a little nervous, but after I shot a couple of times, I enjoyed it," she told the Associated Press.
The uptick is driven in part by fear of crime, especially as shootings and murders have risen in cities big and small. But according to the report, a new motivator is the display of public anger in the last 15 months beginning with confrontations in the wake of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis under the knee of police officer Derek Chauvin.
Worries about the anger over COVID-19-related restrictions and the outrage over the outcome of the presidential 2020 election, driven by lies, are contributors, too. In Michigan, that anger led to a plot to kidnap the governor, as well as instances where armed protesters descended on the state Capitol.
Continues...
More Black women turning to guns for personal protection, report says
More and more Black women are considering buying a gun to have for personal protection, industry experts and gun rights advocates told The Associated Press.
www.foxbusiness.com