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Friday, August 19th, 2022

Asian Americans are buying guns in record numbers. What’s caused this surge?

Author:     Claire Wang
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Tue 16 Aug 2022 | 06.00 EDT
 Link: Asian Americans are buying guns in record numbers. What’s caused this surge?
Stephan:   This is what the MAGAt world's obsessive gun psychosis is doing to American culture. First, it was Black women who began arming themselves, now it is Asian Americans. More guns, more murders and suicides, increasing civil violence. We are entering a civil war, only the majority side has not yet recognized what is happening.
Credit: Emanuel Hahn / The Guardian

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – More than 5 million people became first-time owners during the pandemic as gun sales to the community rose by about 43%

Vivian Moon, a real estate agent and artist, had never felt particularly afraid as a woman living alone in Buena Park, a small California city outside Los Angeles. But when violent attacks against Asian women and seniors increased across the US early last year, she became disillusioned with the police’s ability – and willingness – to protect people who looked like her.

So, like many other Americans of Asian descent, she decided to buy a gun. “I realized I have to take ownership of how I want to live my life,” said Moon, 33.

In the year since, Moon said she’s made an effort to reach out and teach her friends, many of whom are women of color, about gun safety. As a Korean woman who grew up in the 1990s, Moon is also inspired by the legacy of the Los Angeles uprising and the armed Korean immigrants who defended […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Friday, August 19, 2022 at 3:57 pm

    I will take a good can of pepper-spray instead of a gun which shoots bullets.
    I hate guns and think they should all be abolished, especially the military-style automatic weapons which were made for military people in war, not for the public to have.