The Economist: Growing Diversity of Gun
Owners Is ‘Bad for Gun-Control Advocates’
Breitbart Politics,
by
AWR Hawkins
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/23/2022 1:29:32 PM
The Economist pointed to the growing diversity of gun owners in America and noted that it is “bad for gun-control advocates.”According to The Economist, a study by of Northeastern University shows that of the millions of first time buyers between January 2019 and April 2021, “half were female, a fifth black and a fifth Hispanic.”Moreover, The Economist noted that “the share of black adults who joined the gun-owning ranks, 5.3%, was more than twice that of white adults.”The demographics are a marked shift from 2015, when first time gun buyers “skewed white and male.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
FunOne 1/23/2022 2:22:10 PM (No. 1048355)
Brandon will be acknowledged by gun shops as a most accomplished firearm salesman.
He will also be acknowledged by the RNC as a most accomplished recruiter of registered republicans.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
downnout 1/23/2022 3:00:36 PM (No. 1048386)
It may be bad for the anti-gun crowd but it)s good for those who believe in property rights and defending themselves and their families.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 1/23/2022 3:39:16 PM (No. 1048414)
Good news for overall safety. The more often a violent criminal gets pushed out of the gene pool, the safer the country is. It's always good news when a violent felony discovers he's not the only one armed in the encounter. Often, this is a final lesson.
Since the police are being defunded and defanged.....we have to take up the mantle of protectors for ourselves. And the very large number of states with simple, objective standards for CCW permits (41 states), or Constitutional Carry (if you can legally own it you can carry it) is up to 21 or 22 states.
This is good news for gun rights. I worked for 12 years to get our state CCW law passed, and we are now a Constitutional Carry state for several years. The two reasons I worked on it were 1) the obvious, that good people will save their own or other's lives by being armed and 2) the more people who are legally armed, the more the average person will know one or more good people who carry a gun. Those people will know that being armed isn't a cause of violence, but a way of providing safety, stopping violence.
This second reason is working very well across this nation.
In the 1970s the National Coalition to Ban Handguns had a very real chance to literally make the ownership of ANY handgun illegal by federal law. They worked hard, but largely due to the NRA, were unable to get it passed. I think now that that goal is far out of reach.
And in a few months, it is likely that the Supreme Court will strike down all non-objective standards CCW restrictions, and require objective standards only, which is normally called "shall issue". Meet the written standards, get a permit. And Constitutional Carry will continue to spread. I'd like the states to be forced to recognize out of state CCW permits, the same as out of state driver's licenses.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rat Patrol 1/23/2022 4:22:13 PM (No. 1048452)
Meanwhile ammo manufacturing has not bothered to keep up with demand,well that and a monopoly by Vista outdoors.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
sw penn 1/23/2022 4:28:47 PM (No. 1048454)
You know what's good for "gun-control advocates"?
Safe streets.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JrSample 1/23/2022 4:39:08 PM (No. 1048463)
The old social compact was ''don't take the law into your own hands, call the police''.
Citizens paid large amounts of municipal taxes to hire, train, and equip modern police departments.
Now, with the ''defund the police'' crowd. Calling the police is considered to be ''privilege''.
So, now [as always, really, the police have never been obligated to protect individuals] we are on our own.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
gramma b 1/23/2022 5:36:56 PM (No. 1048512)
That's growing diversity of LEGAL gun owners. It seems to me that thugs -- even thugs o' color -- have always had plenty of guns.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 1/23/2022 5:41:22 PM (No. 1048516)
The Economist is a notoriously left-wing rag. Things must be really bad for Dems if they would publish something like this.
#4: that’s why you gotta learn to load your own.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Omen55 1/23/2022 6:16:08 PM (No. 1048555)
A truly smart woman packs heat.
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