I’m a Black Woman and I’m Part of the Fastest Growing Group of Gun Owners in America

By Kira Davis

A recent article at The Root breathlessly reported on a study that revealed skyrocketing gun ownership and concealed carry permits among black women. The report from the Crime Prevention Research Center discovered that from 2000-2015 the rate of growth for concealed carry permits among black women was 3.81 times faster than that of white females.

Politically speaking black women aren’t traditionally associated with gun rights but the author shouldn’t have been so surprised. They are out there and I should know. I’m black, female and I own a gun. I’d own a concealed carry permit too if I didn’t live in the People’s Republic of Californiastan.

My own intellectual shift happened when I was just a young mother, living with my husband and two small children in the middle of a midwestern ghetto that I will decline to name. It doesn’t matter. The point is that we lived in a place where gang activity and poverty were rampant and law enforcement was sparse. I always swore I would never keep allow a weapon in my home…how barbaric!

But then my husband left for a job that took him from us for four months. As I helped pack him for his …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms