No limits. Love is for everybody. Love is live with love matters and thats my new podcast. Im evelyn char, mom and i really think we need to talk about all the topics that more divide and deny that this. I have invited many deer and well known guests. And i would like to invite you to an end ah guns in america. Its a long standing tradition, but a new culture is growing. The number of black gun owners is surging. No ones coming. Save us. We have to save ourselves a new bas yuru is one of the people at the forefront of a movement to empowered the black community to fire arms. Black people feared for unknown reason. The j. Youve been on it for years now. He didnt know nothing. Nancy just getting off the beaten house in the mile high city, denver colorado. Weve come to visit the 1770. 00 armory and gun club. So this is a training tool. Ok. This is called a cert pistol. A new bas yuru is the co owner and co founder. Hes a pistol instructor certified with the National Rifle association, america powerful gun logging, and he is pro to 8, meaning pro 2nd amendment, the right to bear arms. This is where we teach. Ok. Yeah, this one has a training component inside of his aim is to educate people, especially the black community on responsible and safe gun ownership. And so they can defend and protect themselves. Individuals who arent armed, fall prey to slavery, and tyranny. Right . Would think about the native americans, they didnt have superior firepower, and they got trample, right . Well think about the black americans that were here and that were brought here on slave ships. They didnt have superior firepower in that kind of things. Humans can be violent sometimes. And i think the average citizen has a right to defend themselves against some potential violence. The picture of the average citizen defending themselves is changing. Although the majority of gun owners in america are white, black people are the Fastest Growing group of gun owners in the country. Weve come back for one of a new business classes to find out why. Okay, make sure that everyone see that its clear has no ammunition in it. Clear. Okay. I knew this teaches his students about shot guns and a r fifteens. They are controversial because theyve been used in several math shootings. He says theyre the best tool for protecting a home because they can shoot at multiple intruders, better accuracy, better control. According to the National Fire arms survey, the number of black gun owners rose to 25 percent in 2021 compared to just 14 percent 6 years earlier over my right i. The numbers have climbed, especially among black women, right. Like mother and daughter, sharon and genesis. Ok. So move your finger that way. Yup. And then slam it for. Yeah. Hes gone, keep going. Keep going. Genesis used to be a policewoman years ago. Now she and her mom said the police force is understaffed and too slow to respond to crises. And they see the threat of home invasions, gun violence and Mass Shootings on the rice. Its not like a war, like were not duck and bullets or anything right now, right. Theres no bombs fall in, but its like this kind of the war like violence, but you dont know where its going to pop up. You dont know whos like mentally you. We had our former president and im going to the spiritual side. He released a spirit of murder. I mean, i dont even hunt my horn anymore. If somebody cuts in front of me because weve had highway shootings. I dont, i dont when i pull up i look straight ahead. The answer not to make sure that you can look at the weapon that people want him to schools. And what i think is that if we say ok, you can have gun. The people who follow the law are going to be like, ok, heres my gun. But the bad guy, they are ready werent following the law. So theyre going to keep their guns. And now theres nobody in the churches in the schools or wherever in our homes. We dont have any guns to protect ourselves who the bad guys are going to do what theyre going to do. Genesis and sharon asked us not to use their last names out of fear of how people might react to their work. Gun violence has surged in the us with more math shootings than days in the year. In may, a white man killed 10 black people in a Grocery Store in buffalo, new york, in a racially motivated crime. And black people are still killed by police at a higher rate than other groups for a new this year. Well. Ready guns our 1st and foremost tools to protect his family, his wife and children. They live just south of the city. Hello good. How are you doing good. How are you . Im doing okay. Absolutely, absolutely. Its lunchtime for his daughter, noah. I really like we like mustard that the guns are never far away. This is is the little storage area. So to a ours couple, 3 pistols. And then i have my bow and arrow. When i was in the 2nd grade, i wasnt doing anything to anybody. I was in the lunch line and i got punched in my stomach for no reason. Practically folded me. Right. And im going to get help. And the teachers are like, hey, we didnt see it happen. Unfortunately, nothing we can do. Im like, but that guy right there. And theyre like, sorry, and im like, wow, im in the 2nd grade when this happens 1st day of school. I dont even think my parents know this story, right. But from that moment on i said, no. Never again, not going to happen to me. Right. So i think thats my mentality and thats the way that i want to raise my children. But that mentality also means more guns on the streets. When i asked if that is a race to the bottom, i knew was told us, it is too late to disarm americans. He says theres no getting americas guns off the street or out of homes. I think we do a pretty good job for us kind of how to handle scenarios. As a family, there can never do enough. No. His wife rainy also carries a concealed weapon when she leaves the house, thats lack when we were targeted. As women retired as black women, youre, your target just got bigger when you have the hardest. Right . So need getting in the car with my kid. Oh, that makes for that opportunity to try and barrel slide frame. A new bas cleans his guns regularly to make sure they are ready for useless. We asked him about the threats he and his family face. According to the centers for Disease Control and prevention, gun violence is the leading cause of death for black men between 15 and 34 years of age. Careful. Now what do we put our finger on the trigger . Yeah, no, we dont. Because lake been bad. Yeah. And while Violent Crime is spiking in many parts of the country and the number of Mass Shootings on the rise, a new bas says, stakeholders from police to politics have neglected the black community. No ones coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. Power only respects power, right . Were not asking, were not asking. We are saying hey, this is what we want and were taking it. And what we want is it that complicated. We want justice. We want the ability to have the same opportunities as everyone else and not be undermines when we try to elevate. Ah, i knew this invited us to see how he and his fellow gun enthusiasts train on a grand scale. We had around 80 kilometer is into the dusty expanse outside of denver mountains loom in the distance. It is there that a new bas and other black gun owners have told us dozens of white militias. Our training, including some groups linked to the january 6th attack on the capital in washington dc. We wonder how the majority white gun owners will react to the growing numbers of black own firearms. The n r a and many republicans support growing black gun ownership. Arguing that regulating fire arms is actually racist. The politics of guns has crafted odd alliances in america. But on this land between the hills, members of the black gun Owner Community a found a place to gather and train for all scenarios. Anybody can call a ceasefire if they see something unsafe. Okay, so if you see something unsafe, yell cease, fire as loud as you can, every body drop what youre doing to understand whats going on. Okay . Go on, nobody getting hurt out here for any reason. Were all accountable for each other. Safety out here. Right. Please please. I knew was leads the crew through live a fire drills running through a course facing off against multiple threats. What non breaking brad after training. The bonds in this community are clear, but we wonder whether this 2 could be considered a militia. We asked alton clark, regional director for the local chapter of the National African american gun association. Is not a militia. Were here to protect ourselves and our families in our community. There. The malicious are the old right white supremacists. Theyve been practicing and preparing themselves for years. We are new to the scene. Were not a militia. Were not out to take over the government or do anything of that nature. Were out to protect ourselves. The reasons are manifold, but we ask ourselves if the answer to solving americas many rifts really is more gun. Either way, a new best spouse to be ready for anything. If we are being attacked with firearms, we probably should have, have and know how to use them in case that ever happens. You know, its just the reality of the situation and the times in the country that we live with me. With a light breezy and full of life creations by african designer during masika, i can tell the story, told them, with her fabrics, patterns and colors. Compositions for an endless island summer camp re max d w. We love europe. We love diversity and anything unusual. No mountain is too high and no road is too long. 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