Some Black Americans Buying Guns: ‘I’d Rather Go To Trial Than Go To The Cemetery’

Bruce Tomlin, a 63-year-old truck driver from New Mexico, said he was never really a “gun person.” Then he saw a video of three white men following and fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery while he was jogging.

“The man is trying to get away and they’re just gunning him down in the street like he was a dog,” Tomlin said about watching the video of Arbery. “It’s made me hypervigilant. It has made me nervous. I’ll even admit to being a little bit scared sometimes.”

So he bought a gun. And he’s planning on buying more.  READ MORE HERE.