For decades, gun controllers claimed that firearm ownership was the domain of rural conservatives, that minorities had no interest in self-defense, and that LGBTQ Americans would never touch a gun. They were wrong then, and today the numbers prove it beyond debate.
The latest University of Chicago Crime Lab study shows that over half of new gun buyers since 2020 are women, minorities, and people who identify as liberal or LGBTQ. KUNC’s reporting confirms the trend: black gun owners, Hispanic gun owners, Asian Americans, and LGBTQ citizens are now arming themselves in record numbers.
In other words, the gun-control narrative is collapsing under the weight of reality.
And the reason is simple: when crime skyrockets, when police response times slow, and when prosecutors refuse to prosecute — Americans do what free people have always done. They take responsibility for their own safety. Even if they vote blue.
Fear, Abandonment, and a Government That Can’t Protect Anyone
The left’s entire argument for gun control rests on the fantasy that government can and will protect you. But the people who live in the communities most plagued by violence — overwhelmingly urban, non-white, Democrat-voting neighborhoods — have discovered the truth: They’re on their own.
KUNC quotes new minority gun owners who say they started carrying because police don’t arrive in time — or don’t arrive at all. Others cite rising anti-LGBTQ hate crimes, political violence, or violent homelessness in their neighborhoods.
They didn’t buy guns because a gun rights group persuaded them. They bought guns because reality did. The NRA-ILA’s reporting confirms the backdrop: America is experiencing the most overlooked urban crime spike in recent history — concentrated in the very cities where these new gun owners live.
Crime is not abstract. It’s right outside their doors.
The Left’s Policies Created the Surge — Then They Lied About It
Gun-control politicians want credit for “creating safer communities,” while simultaneously:
- slashing police budgets
- eliminating cash bail
- refusing to prosecute violent criminals
- emptying prisons
- blocking citizens from carrying firearms.
This isn’t compassion, it’s calculated civilian disarmament. And now it has backfired.
People of color and LGBTQ Americans — the people who the gun confiscation lobby has long exploited as political props — are rejecting the lie that “only the police should have guns.” Because when police aren’t there, and criminals are, the theory dies instantly.
New Gun Owners Aren’t Endorsing Gun Control, They’re Rejecting It
Gun confiscation advocates are already trying to spin the trend, claiming these new buyers “still support reasonable gun laws.” But the data says otherwise.
The University of Chicago study shows new minority gun owners overwhelmingly cite:
- fear for personal safety
- rising local crime
- distrust of law enforcement
- feeling abandoned by government systems
If government can’t or won’t protect you, the logical next step isn’t more government regulation, it’s self-defense. Gun control has failed them, so they bought guns.
Self-Defense Is a Human Right, Not a Conservative Privilege
For decades, the media pretended gun rights were a white, rural issue. But in reality . . .
A single mother in Detroit is no less deserving of self-defense than a rancher in west Texas.
A gay man in Denver deserves the same right to defend himself as a veteran in Cheyenne.
A black store owner in Chicago has the same moral claim to a firearm as a farmer in the Missouri.
The Second Amendment protects people, not political tribes. And as more minorities exercise that right, the gun-control movement loses its script.
A Crossroads for America
This new wave of gun ownership should be the death blow to the gun control agenda. But the anti-gun left sees something very different: a threat to their power.
Make no mistake…they’ll respond not by embracing these new gun owners, but by doubling down on gun bans, registries, and surveillance. They can’t allow millions of newly armed citizens — many of them their own voters — to become a political force that rejects disarmament.
Gun controllers know one thing very well: an armed society is not an easily controlled society.
The real question is whether these new gun owners will recognize that “reasonable gun safety laws” are nothing more than stepping stones to disarmament and that their right to self-defense is fundamentally incompatible with the political movement trying to take their firearms.
The Second Amendment Is Winning Because Reality Is Winning
The rise of liberals, minorities, and LGBTQ individuals buying firearms exposes an undeniable truth:
Gun rights are not conservative. They are American. They are universal. And they are non-negotiable.
When America’s most vulnerable communities arm themselves, it sends a message louder than any statistic: Gun control has failed. Freedom hasn’t.
Chris McNutt is president of Texas Gun Rights.
The bulk of Dems, especially the ones with money and pull, are still affluent, white women. Until that changes there won’t be any movement away from gun control.
Not by the leftoids. By the ordinary Americans wanting to degrnd themselves it will be a rejection of gun control.
“The bulk of Dems, especially the ones with money and pull, are still affluent, white women. Until that changes there won’t be any movement away from gun control.”
That’s happening, their birth rates are lower than ours, so we will out-breed them.
You and I won’t be alive to see it, but my sister’s kids will…
Dr. John Lott didn’t miss this ground swell toward personal firearms. MASA: Make America Safe Again. Lott may be another RFK Jr. of personal health and SAFETY.
These groups aren’t buying firearms for “home or personal protection”, they’re buying them to go on the offensive. How can you be so blind to what’s really going on?
“LTGBTQSOBFU RIGHTS! OR ELSE!”
“How can you be so blind to what’s really going on?”
Ozzy said it best :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDuH4iAYyNo
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!STANDING UP TO PROTECT US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As Lord Acton pointed out in 1887, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” Hence you invite predation when you cede power. My research (I’m a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science) confirmed that he was correct. Ask yourself – CAN YOU DEFEND YOURSELF IF ATTACKED???
None of this matters. These people aren’t going to suddenly turn into single-issue 2A voters because they bought a gun. Commenter Miner49er owns guns, including at least one AR-15. Does anyone think he’s going to stop voting Blue no matter who?