Heightened violence, including a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and national attention to police brutality, have pushed people of color to seek out firearms as a form of self-protection at higher rates than ever before.
, too, said Gabby Franco, a Venezuelan firearms instructor who has worked with Latinos in many of her classes.
Many come from countries with high crime rates and have firsthand experience with underfunded police, she added. "It's like, 'For me to pursue my dreams, I need to make sure that I stay alive,'" Franco told Axios. That means making the most of the rights they may not have had in their home countries.People of color, especially Black people, "don't have the ability to access that right in the same way," said Daniel Harawa, Washington University of St.
Because they're more likely to be perceived as a threat due to stereotypes around race, "it creates this kind of complication where folks want to be able to protect themselves ... but then exercising that right could have very real and in fact deadly consequences."Don't forget:
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