Black gun owners are often portrayed negatively. One photographer set out to change that.

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Killeen is the town directly adjacent to Fort Hood in Texas. Copperas Cove is about a 20 minute drive west of Fort Hood, many soldiers that live off post live there, it's a nicer area than Killeen which is a pretty rough and tumble place. I'd bet most, if not all the people in these pictures are either in the military or a spouse of one that is.
In the end it is in the best interest of all gun owners to normalize gun ownership. I'm not sure if these pictures do that. I would take carefully composed photos of people thar are abundantly shown to be observeving every safety rule, but by all means have the subjects be regular every day people dressed in regular everyday clothes.
 
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I'm glad the perception seems to be changing in the Black and Hispanic communities. My generation and the one younger than me seem to be buying guns and seeing gun ownership as a responsible, lawful, and fun activity that's necessary for its own sake instead of for some specific reason. In my family's older generations, and I see this attitude with a lot of Hispanic and Black people outside of my own family, it wasn't seen that way at all.

With the older generations, if you were having fun with gun ownership, it was usually illegal. People who "liked" guns were the thug crowd. The ones who lawfully owned guns usually did it because they needed one to protect themselves and/or their businesses in a bad neighborhood. They didn't want to have a gun and didn't like owning guns. It was seen as a necessity and definitely not something they wanted to pass-down to their kids. So for lots of Hispanic and Black young gun owners, even their lawful ownership is looked down on because family will look at them and say things like "Why do you need that? You don't need a gun, so why do you have one?" It's definitely stigmatized in a way I don't see with my White friends, where their gun-owning family is more than happy to pass on things like hunting, shooting, and concealed carry.
 
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Jmac00 said:
why does skin color always get thrown in the mix, this is beyond stupid. The only thing I care about is, are you a semi-intelligent, responsible person that respects the law. Thats really to only requirement
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Subconscious programming. Like when religions use mantras/affirmations
 
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Xae289 said:
I'm glad the perception seems to be changing in the Black and Hispanic communities. My generation and the one younger than me seem to be buying guns and seeing gun ownership as a responsible, lawful, and fun activity that's necessary for its own sake instead of for some specific reason. In my family's older generations, and I see this attitude with a lot of Hispanic and Black people outside of my own family, it wasn't seen that way at all.

With the older generations, if you were having fun with gun ownership, it was usually illegal. People who "liked" guns were the thug crowd. The ones who lawfully owned guns usually did it because they needed one to protect themselves and/or their businesses in a bad neighborhood. They didn't want to have a gun and didn't like owning guns. It was seen as a necessity and definitely not something they wanted to pass-down to their kids. So for lots of Hispanic and Black young gun owners, even their lawful ownership is looked down on because family will look at them and say things like "Why do you need that? You don't need a gun, so why do you have one?" It's definitely stigmatized in a way I don't see with my White friends, where their gun-owning family is more than happy to pass on things like hunting, shooting, and concealed carry.
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It requires a cultural shift, and it does seems things are starting to shift, at least a little bit. 2A is for all peoples. The ultimate goal is to decouple the 2A from any political party. If there is widespread support gun rights among democrat voters the wedge disappears and the gun control dam breaks. Furthermore it would put a great deal of pressure on Republicans to actually support and advance gun rights initiatives as opposed to the bs lip service they currently pay our community.
 
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GOPerfect said:
As usual....

The media, regardless of news site, seems it is always needed to bring skin color into articles.

Many may see this as a positive article; not me
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I disagree. It's not quite the same thing. It could be that the motivations behind this particular photographer are more SJW in nature but it could also not be. I don't think one can deny normalizing gun ownership is a bad thing. Futhermore highlighting black gun ownership runs counter to the anti gunner narrative. I think this this could be done better than what we saw here but I don't disagree with what is trying to be achieved. The more people that get into gun ownership tge harder it will be to stigmatized it, the more potential votes we gain, the more eyes there are that see how nonsensical our gun laws really are.
 
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Most mugshots, err pictures of black criminals with guns are just that.
Just like the same for white, yellow, red, or any other color; no one is faking pictures of blacks with guns. 80% of the crime only ~20% of the population do the math you dumb liberal fxxxers.
 
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