After back-to-back attacks and amid rising anti-Asian hate, gun violence has become a key – and controversial – issue in communities
aimed at expanding background checks before firearm sales. At a more local level, the Democratic state senator Dave Min, vice-chair of the Asian and Pacific Islander legislative caucus, introduced legislation last month prohibiting banks with ties to firearm manufacturers from operating in the state, and another requiring federally licensed gun sellers to take an annual training course on “responsible sales practices”.
Since he founded the group in 2020, Kim said, it had experienced three notable jumps in membership during waves of anti-Asian violence. The first was at the start of the pandemic shutdown; the next was during the George Floyd protests; and finally, after the killing of a Thai elder,Asian Americans brought guns in record numbers over the past three years, a phenomenon fueled largely by a rise in anti-Asian violence, according to the trade organization National Shooting Sports Foundation.
When Brittney Au founded Compassion in SGV, a volunteer group that provided chaperone and self-defense services for Asian seniors in San Gabriel Valley, it never occurred to her that the people she was protecting from racial violence would be the targets – and perpetrators – of mass shootings.
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