[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Mail]  [Sign-in]  [Setup]  [Help]  [Register] 

Nagorno-Karabakh Is No More

Trigger for Next Financial Implosion

No Privacy, No Property: The World in 2030 According to the WEF

The Problem of the Tariff in American Economic History, 1787–1934

Coming full circle: Subpoena demands FBI return Hunter Biden laptop to Delaware repair shop owner

Famed Signature Room Restaurant in Chicago’s Hancock Tower Suddenly Closes Citing ‘Economic Hardship’

Pakistan: Politicians fight on live debate after Nawaz Sharif’s party leader calls Imran Khan ‘Jewish agent’ and ‘bootlicker’

FBI arrests Proud Boys member who disappeared days before sentencing over role in Jan. 6

Winklevoss twins secretly withdrew $280M in assets before crypto firm collapsed: sources

Leader in Richmond Democrat Party group ARRESTED after posting bomb threat against Andy Ngo Virginia talk

Riley Gaines shares video of trans male violence in school: ‘You can’t hide …’

Connecticut DCF Invites Children To Report On Non-Affirming Parents

Trans activists force anthropologists to cancel conference panel discussing the identification of male and female skeletons

Taiwan Launches the Island's First Domestically Made Submarine for Testing

Bail bondsman Scott Hall takes plea deal in Georgia election interference case

Supreme Court Returns To Mountain Of Cases From Conservative 5th Circuit

Facing A U.S. Anti-Corruption Push In Ukraine, Burisma Demanded Hunter Biden Call Dad

Investigators Subpoena Bank Records Of Hunter, James Biden After Uncovering $20 Million In Foreign Payments

San Diego declares a crisis as feds release thousands into the cit

Democrats sour on Bidenomics as it fails to move the needle for voters

‘Trust the Experts’: 1,600 Scientists Sign Declaration Denouncing Climate Change Hoax

US Refuses to Acknowledge Systemic Use of Torture by Its Armed Forces in Iraq

At the Brink?

As the FCC Revisits Net Neutrality, Let's Remember the Day the Internet 'Ended'

British intelligence in the dock for CIA torture

The End of the Road for the Dollar

Time to end the Fed and its mismanagement of our economy

Thanks to US Policy, CCP Controls Key Resources for US Weapons

Europa, a Girl From West Asia, Raped Again by an American Bull

Brickbat: Just a 'Regular Person'

FTC’s Amazon Complaint: Perhaps the Greatest Affront to Consumer and Producer Welfare in Antitrust History

Julian Simon: Expressing the Imago Dei in Economic Terms

It’s the Beginning of the End of This Whole Phony Economy

Russia Might Call for Extradition of Ukrainian Nazi Honored in Canada, Trudeau Blames Parliament Speaker

New York National Park Site to House Thousands of Migrants in Tent City

Review: Shiny Happy People Charts the Downfall of the Duggar Family

The Problem with a Chicago Municipal Grocery Store

Ukrainian Whoppers

Former major city police detective reveals 50% of SIDS cases happened within 48 hours post vaccine

August border encounters of more than 322,000 highest monthly total in U.S. history

Trump Accuses Pro-Life Groups of Being a Political Liability That Exist to Make Money

MINISTRY SPOTLIGHT: Women’s Resource Medical Centers of Southern Nevada

Washington’s Strategic Overextension

Trump adviser: GOP should ‘end’ primary debates, focus on Biden

When it Comes to Preventing Abuse, are All Churches Equal?

Methodist Community in Religious Freedom Fight Against NJ Regarding Sunday Beach Access

Imperial Footprints in Africa: The Dismal Role of AFRICOM

Biden warns Trump's MAGA 'extremist movement' is a threat to democracy

‘Quiet Crisis’: Food Banks Are Inundated With Requests For Aid As Inflation Bites

Illegal Immigrant Launches Unhinged Assault, Leaves Cop Missing A Body Part


Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

Bang / Guns
See other Bang / Guns Articles

Title: Trump's Victory Has Fearful Minorities Buying Up Guns
Source: NBC News
URL Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/con ... minorities-buying-guns-n686881
Published: Nov 23, 2016
Author: Ben Popken
Post Date: 2016-11-23 14:59:52 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 2307
Comments: 4

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.

Gun Run

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.

So, while store owners say that traffic is up overall, the new rush of minority customers arming themselves is something of an unexpected glimmer for the industry.

"They thought Trump won't win," said Earl Curtis, the 53-year-old owner of two Blue Ridge Arsenal gun stores and shooting ranges in western Virginia who has noticed an "uptick" in the number of black and minority customers.

Largely, says Curtis, they're "shell-shocked" first-time shooters looking to get a handgun to protect themselves from "race riots and being attacked by racists" — afraid that what Trump and his supporters have already done is just the beginning.

Trump already had a checkered past with the black community. Though he once donated office space to Jesse Jackson's civil rights group and hosted a NAACP party, he was also sued by the Justice Department in 1975 for refusing to rent to black people. Trump countersued for defamation, demanding $100 million, and the case was settled without admission of guilt.

In 1978, he was sued again by the Justice Department for denying rentals to black people and steering them into mixed race housing. The case was closed in 1982.

Seven years later, he took out full-page ads to suggest the death penalty for black suspects in a rape trial who years later were released after the introduction of new DNA evidence.

His position doesn't seem to have softened since then.

On the campaign trail this year, Trump hired Steve Bannon, the executive editor of Breitbart, a far-right news website the Southern Poverty Law Center called a "white ethno-nationalist propaganda mill." Bannon has since been named chief strategist and Senior Counselor for the Trump administration.

In a February TV interview, Trump blamed his failure to condemn the Ku Klux Klan's support on a "bad earpiece."

After he suggested African-American protesters should be "roughed up," attacks on minority protesters at his rallies followed.

Even Trump's Twitter slam last weekend on the Broadway musical Hamilton is ringing alarm bells for minorities. After Vice-President-elect Mike Pence's attendance was met with boos and cheers in the audience, a cast member read a short speech to Pence at the curtain call. Trump blasted the show in several tweets and demanded an apology. Trump supporters lobbed their own negative tweets and sent two different "boycott Hamilton" hashtags trending.

For anxious minorities, it's yet another foreboding sign of how Trump can whip up his fans to magnify and echo messages of intolerance. And when they compare his full-throated denunciation of a piece of musical theater to his garbled, terse, and delayed disavowals of the support by white supremacists, they see a wink and a nod, and fear it's a nudge.

"Most folks are pretty nervous about what kind of America we're going to see over the next 5-10 years. Everyone has to fend for themselves."

Newly Targeted

Michael Cargill, the owner of Central Texas Gun Works in Austin, told NBC News he had given up on advertising to African-Americans — but now he's seeing as many as 20 a month, and they're filling up his training classes; along with Muslim, Hispanic, and LGBT patrons with heightened worries about being targeted.

Black gun owner groups are seeing an uptick too, led by African-American women. They report receiving an increased number of emails from across the country from concerned minorities looking to learn more about gun safety, training, and firearm access.

Philip Smith, founder of the 14,000-member National African American Gun Association said his members are buying up every kind of gun, from Glock handguns to AR-15 rifles to AK-47 semi and automatic weapons — though most first-time buyers gravitate toward a nine-millimeter pistol or .38 revolver. He said that twice the usual attendees have RSVP'd for the next meeting of the Georgia chapter, which he heads.

"Most folks are pretty nervous about what kind of America we're going to see over the next 5-10 years," he said. That includes members apprehensive about protests against Trump becoming unruly, as well as an "apocalyptic end result where there's anarchy, jobs are gone, the economy is tipped in the wrong direction and everyone has to fend for themselves." They don't know who might be busting down their door at 2 a.m.

He hopes people are just overreacting.

"I tell everyone don't panic, use your head. If you see something not normal, get out. You're probably right. And if you're not able to get out, you're prepared to do what you need to do," said Smith.

Being Prepared

Since the election, Scott and her family and friends have tried not to venture outside except to go to work and come back home. When she had to get gas for her car, she made sure she stopped at a station where other people were around.

"I'm going to protect myself, whatever that means."

Scott fears a scenario where she's approached with a gun just because she's black. She hopes a "few choice words that I learned from my grandfather" would be enough to scare anyone off, but she's prepared if the situation escalates.

"I'm not the type of person who is afraid of my own shadow. I'm going to protect myself, whatever that means," Scott told NBC News by phone on her way to the police station to apply for a firearms license.

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  


TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest

Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4.

#2. To: Willie Green (#0)

After Donald Trump's win, Yolanda Scott is upgrading the crowbar she keeps in her purse to a small-caliber pistol.

The author of the brain fart,as well as the black women he quoted have either never seen a crow bar,or never seen a purse.

Since I suspect they both carry a purse,it has to be they have never seen a crowbar.

sneakypete  posted on  2016-11-24   0:25:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: sneakypete (#2) (Edited)

After Donald Trump's win, Yolanda Scott is upgrading the crowbar she keeps in her purse to a small-caliber pistol. The author of the brain fart,as well as the black women he quoted have either never seen a crow bar,or never seen a purse.

Since I suspect they both carry a purse,it has to be they have never seen a crowbar.

Maybe this: MINI CROW BAR

- drop forged, heat treated steel construction
- 7x1/2" bar and claw angle allows closer use near walls
- wide,flat claw base resists sink and sideway roll
- black finish adds strength and resists rust
- Price: $6.90 Free shipping for Prime members

Who knows ...

Gatlin  posted on  2016-11-24   0:42:57 ET  (1 image) Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Gatlin (#3) (Edited)

Maybe this: MINI CROW BAR

- drop forged, heat treated steel construction - 7x1/2" bar and claw angle allows closer use near walls - wide,flat claw base resists sink and sideway roll - black finish adds strength and resists rust - Price: $6.90 Free shipping for Prime members

Like I wrote,they have never seen a crowbar.

Truth to tell,I think I had rather have a crowbar at swinging distance than a small caliber pistol.

Then again,I'm not the kind of guy that would try to wound somebody that's trying to kill me.

sneakypete  posted on  2016-11-24   11:00:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


Replies to Comment # 4.

        There are no replies to Comment # 4.


End Trace Mode for Comment # 4.

TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest

[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Mail]  [Sign-in]  [Setup]  [Help]  [Register] 

Please report web page problems, questions and comments to webmaster@libertysflame.com