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Gun store owners 'seeing up to four times as many black and minority customers'

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http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/trump-s-victory-has-fearful-minorities-buying-guns-n686881


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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.

"You feel that racists now feel like they can attack us just because the president is doing it," one gun shop owner 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.

Racial tension was already at a high during the election, with a spate of videoed shootings and deaths of black men by police officers, followed by ardent protests and the fatal targeting of white police officers.

"You feel that racists now feel like they can attack us just because the president is doing it."
In one high-profile incident, the live-streamed aftermath of the shooting of Philando Castile at a traffic stop at the hands of police in Minnesota sparked country-wide outrage and was ruled manslaughter. That and another death in Louisiana sparked a protest in Dallas, which a sniper took advantage of to kill five police officers.

From Ferguson to Chicago to Baltimore, African-Americans felt targeted and angry, sending marchers into the streets and communities on edge.


And Donald J. Trump's surprise victory in November has done nothing to abate the racial violence — it even seems to have encouraged more open displays of hatred. More than 700 instances have already been reported to the Southern Poverty Law Center just since November 8, and LGBT hotlines are seeing an "all-time peak" in calls from people reporting harassment.

Swastikas have been found spray-painted on churches, playgrounds, and college walls. White Texas high school students chanted "Build that wall" during a volleyball game with a predominantly Hispanic rival school. Internet personality and model Tila Tequila was suspended from Twitter after she was photographed giving a "Heil Hitler" sign at a restaurant following the post-election gathering in Washington, D.C., of the National Policy Institute, an "alt-right" organization.

"It's best that I be proactive," said Scott, a fiery 49-year-old financial analyst. "I know where I live."

She's from Alpharetta, Georgia. It borders Forsyth County, which in 1912 systematically drove out nearly all its black residents for the next quarter century. After two alleged attacks on white women, a black suspect was lynched and two more were hanged after a short trial. Armed bands of whites began terrorizing blacks, torching homes and churches in night raids, firing through the door, telling them it was time to "get" [out of America] and then seized their homes and land. As recently as 1987 the county saw the marching of 5,000 white supremacists.

Scott still sees racist bumper stickers and large Confederate flags flying from the backs of pickup trucks when she ventures across the county line there to go outlet mall shopping. And she pauses to wonder what motivates her white neighbor to tuck a handgun in his pants before driving to the grocery store.

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October saw 2.3 million FBI background checks for gun sales, an all-time record; and the 18th month in a row to set a new high. November could be on pace to break that.

But while gun company stocks and firearm sales saw a run-up before the election — based on fears a Hillary Clinton victory would result in increased gun-control measures — shares in gun companies fell as much as 20 percent after Trump's win.
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Ivan 3414

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Wasn't too long ago when we were shitting on white folks for stockpiling guns during the Obama years

Maybe the NRA was right
 
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Daingurse

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Wish owning a gun was viable option for me, because I honestly am feeling anxious lately. Really feels like there is a bullseye on our backs.
 
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Clockwork said:
It would be funny if this lead to more Republican support of gun control legislation...
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Daddy Gun Industry is going to love this so the GOP won't do shit. Because this will scare white people to buy more guns, and the cycle continues.
 
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Enzom21

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Good. We need to be armed more than ever now.
Although, I expect some new gun control laws will be passed because of this.
 
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lol @ people thinking gun legislation will get more strict if MORE people start owning guns.
 
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BriGuy

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I can't blame them one iota, but at the same time, I hate the idea of living in a society where everyone is armed with a lethal weapon.
 
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Mammoth Jones said:
Damn right. Motherfuckers making it plain as day they wanna kill us. Ain't waiting to get Tulsa'd. Fuck that.
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You know we've bumped heads before.. but I'll gladly eat crow.

If they are scared of me breathing, imagine exercising our rights.

FUCK them.

Been researching rules and regulations for California for a minute now.
 
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Slate Soda said:
Wasn't too long ago when we were shitting on white folks for stockpiling guns during the Obama years

Maybe the NRA was right
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The NRA always wins because the NRA only wants for people to buy as many guns as they possibly can. They think nothing of the loss of life involved, not the shooting victims of gun-related crimes, nor the increased apprehension and backlash from a police officer who even thinks a black person has a gun in their possession.

I feel for the people who think they have no alternative but to arm to feel safe given how the election went. I worry that I can't predict on the broader perspective how a resurgent campaign of open racism is going to react to the news that suddenly more black people are arming themselves. I hope it works out for them. I'm not optimistic.
 
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Memento_Mori15 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but California wasnt strict on gun controls until the black panther party started owning guns..
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Was gun ownership high in California at that time?

I mean the NRA and other gun lobbyists are always insanely resistant to anything making it even remotely more difficult to get a gun. I can't imagine what the government would suggest now where the NRA would be okay with it.

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You're out of touch with how america really works.
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Kickz said:
Fixed it for ya
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Yeah maybe, but like above, what do you think the gun lobbyists would be fine with now that there weren't fine with before?

And I don't imagine the government proposing a "no guns if you're not white" law.
 
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NoblesseOblige said:
Oh so pushing gun control is going to be a republican thing again soon?
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-Gunny lobbies line Repub pockets
-Minority gun owners are disproportionately targeted and not offered the benefit of "stand your ground" type laws
-Minorities are charged more expensive fines, given harsher jail time, and/or killed outright

It's win-win-win some more for them
 
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Slate Soda said:
Wasn't too long ago when we were shitting on white folks for stockpiling guns during the Obama years

Maybe the NRA was right
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Shit, I didn't know Obama was running on a platform of racism and then his black supporters started attacking white people because his victory emboldened black supremacy.
 
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Good. The second ammendment is for all Americans, whether "white nationalists" like it or not.

It's sad that it's come to this, but I don't trust the "make America great again" crowd to make the distinction between American citizen of Hispanic descent and "one of them dirty illegals".
 
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Good.

I was hopeful for a dialogue on gun control, but when you have a party in power that will make that impossible, who have also spread racial hatred, called for registries and internment camps, and who refuse to denounce the rhetoric of the alt-reich that is inspiring an unprecedented surge of hate crimes, I think the safest thing for every minority in the US to do is exercise their 2nd amendment rights and stay vigilant.

It's ironic that every conspiracy theory the fringe right has been spouting off for decades about an authoritarian government threatening to round up and persecute Americans is on the verge of becoming a reality, and it's the government they put in power.

Maybe progressives and minorities need to start forming defensive militias of their own.
 
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Damaniel

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I'm not surprised in the slightest. It's good that people are willing to stand up and defend themselves if the need arises, but bad that Trump and his deplorables have put so many people in this position in the first place.
 
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Slime said:
Good.

I was hopeful for a dialogue on gun control, but when you have a party in power that will make that impossible, who have also spread racial hatred, called for registries and internment camps, and who refuse to denounce the rhetoric of the alt-reich that is inspiring an unprecedented surge of hate crimes, I think the safest thing for every minority in the US to do is exercise their 2nd amendment rights and stay vigilant.

It's ironic that every conspiracy theory the fringe right has been spouting off for decades about an authoritarian government threatening to round up and persecute Americans is on the verge of becoming a reality, and it's the government they put in power.

Maybe progressives and minorities need to start forming defensive militias of their own.
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You know we'll be called gangs instead of militias right? You only get to be called a militia if you're 99% white.
 
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Lemaitre

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I'd never consider arming myself as a minority.

Something just feels so wrong about it, this is like an underground war going on. So much for land of the free.
 
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Media

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Quickest way to enact gun control laws. I approve.

As an aside, how the hell do you fit a crowbar in your purse?!
 
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