These articles discuss how blacks and trans people are buying guns for protection. This is quite the change in the Washington Posts’ approach to guns.
For weeks, men carrying rifles have guarded the roads leading into Lincoln Heights, Ohio, stopping and questioning those who approach the Cincinnati suburb.
The men, some of whom wear masks and body armor, are residents of this small, majority-Black town. They say they’re protecting their own. And they’re on edge.
In early February, a truck of neo-Nazis came to Lincoln Heights’s doorstep. Masked demonstrators — some carrying rifles — hurled racist slurs and waved flags with red swastikas on a highway overpass leading into town.
Two weeks later, on Sunday, another agitator struck, spreading racist pamphlets from the Ku Klux Klan across Lincoln Heights. . . .
Daniel Wu, “Neo-Nazis targeted a majority-Black town. Locals launched an armed watch,” Washington Post, February 27, 2025.
In another article, every Trans people the Washington Post interviewed for this article are buying guns.
Until recently, May Alejandra Rodriguez was a big supporter of gun control.
A 21-year-old Mexican American trans woman who is a student at Western Washington University, she was interested in producing music and snapping photos of her friends on Fuji 400 film.
But Rodriguez, who voted for Kamala Harris, changed her view on guns when Donald Trump was reelected. . . .
Hallie Lieberman, “The trans Americans turning to guns for protection,” Washington Post, February 25, 2025.
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