Pandemic racism, mass shootings spur Asian-Americans to take up guns

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Azusa (United States) (AFP) – Ricky Lam has always stayed away from guns. But since two mass killings in the space of a couple of days rocked California’s Asian community, this 35-year-old Chinese-American is thinking again. “I’m still on the fence. I don’t know if I want to purchase a gun. But the last shootings reminded me that I need to decide,” he told AFP. Lam lives with his family in the suburbs of Los Angeles just a few miles (kilometers) from Monterey Park, where last month an elderly Asian gunman killed 11 Lunar New year revellers at a dance studio. Two days later in the north of Cali…

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