Gun Purchases, Citizen App and other thoughts
In the past couple of weeks I stumbled across a few articles via NY Times or links in newsletters that I receive. The first was: An Arms Race in America: Gun Buying Spiked During the Pandemic. It’s Still Up. And the second: 'FIND THIS FUCK:' Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism The first article from NYT has been covered by several other outlets, including NPR but the gist is that there are lots of first time gun buyers recently and against the popular narrative, there are a very significant fraction that are Democrats, women, minorities, etc. Essentially, gun ownership is getting somewhat more representative of US demographics. The second article was about an app that I've never heard of - Citizen. I've read articles in the past years about the role of sites like Nextdoor in racial profiling as it pertains to property crime in neighborhoods as well as a few about the implications o...