Contrary to what many believe, the gun rights movement isn’t really about old white dudes. Sure, the media and the extreme left–but I repeat myself, I’m afraid–like to frame it that way, but it’s not. There are a lot of people of all different ethnicities who value the right to keep and bear arms and are strong defenders of it. Through the years, I’ve seen and met with a number of people from every ethnic group you could care to name at gun rights events.
It’s not just about white people.
But, not everyone gets that. What’s more, there are people who simply don’t agree with us on a great deal of things.
A recent report looked at Hispanic gun owners and their support for gun control. This isn’t great, to say the least, but is it the problem we might think?
As the 2024 elections near, gun violence is surfacing as a pivotal issue for Latino voters across the United States. This growing demographic is caught in a complex dynamic: they overwhelmingly support gun control, driven by the disproportionate impact of gun violence on their communities, yet they are increasingly purchasing firearms as a means of self-defense.
This urgency is echoed by activists like Phillip Gomez, a Berkeley student who founded the Latino Rifle Association in response to the 2019 El Paso shooting. “Latinos had been the target of a horrific terrorist attack by a white nationalist, and I knew that many Latinos were going to start exploring the prospect of armed self-defense,” Gomez said in Berkeley Law interview. Concerned that traditional gun culture, symbolized by the National Rifle Association, was toxic and unsafe, Gomez created the LRA as a progressive, community-oriented alternative.
“We aren’t interested in integrating with mainstream gun culture — we want to be a complete alternative to it,” he emphasized. Gomez’s initiative reflects a broader trend within the Latino community, where concerns about safety coexist with a strong desire for responsible gun ownership and gun control.
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— Read More: bearingarms.com
