Black People Are The Fastest-Growing Group Of Gun Owners In The U.S.
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🗓️ 18 July 2022
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This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, race and identity reporter Alana Wise, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:39.4 | there it's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro, I cover the White House. I'm Dominican |
| 0:43.8 | Muntener, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. And today we've all got Alana Wise with us. Hey Alana. |
| 0:49.1 | Hey, thank you. Alana reports on race for NPR and you're here with us today because we're going to |
| 0:54.3 | talk about Americans and guns and you just published a really interesting story about that. Big picture, |
| 0:59.2 | we've been talking a lot about guns and gun culture and gun violence on the podcast the last |
| 1:04.1 | couple months and that's for a few reasons. There's been a stretch of horrific mass shootings. |
| 1:08.8 | President Biden recently signed the first bipartisan gun law in a generation and also the Supreme |
| 1:14.4 | Court recently issued a major gun ruling. So a third of Americans say they own at least one gun |
| 1:20.4 | and Alana, the story you did was about the really growing share of black gun owners in America. |
| 1:26.1 | And first before we get into that, I think it is fair to probably say that when we talk about |
| 1:32.3 | gun rights as a political issue, I think a lot of people initially typically think of conservative |
| 1:38.2 | white gun owners, probably conservative white males. And you did a lot of reporting on the fact |
| 1:43.2 | that this is much more nuanced than that. When you look at the typical or stereo typical rather |
| 1:48.1 | gun owning population, you think of very rural, very white, very conservative people, especially white |
| 1:54.8 | males. One thing that we found in reporting out this story is that black people very often have |
| 2:01.5 | found themselves at odds with that population and at odds with what that population very often |
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