Gun Tag

Trends point to an interesting change in American gun ownership. In keeping with reports from NYMag’s The Cut, Black women are the fastest-growing group of gun owners within the country. The explanation behind it's different than you prototypical gun owner is for self-defense. “It makes me feel safer,” Onnie Brown, 43, of Phoenix, Arizona, told The Cut. The rise in gun ownership is complicated so as to add into hard numbers, but Black women do make up the vast majority of the 40,000 members of the National African American Gun Association.Last September, The Philadelphia Tribune took their very own have a look at the problem by digging into the numbers. Gun sales amongst Black men and ladies increased by 58 percent in the...