{"id":42119,"date":"2020-03-12T18:08:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=42119"},"modified":"2020-03-12T18:08:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:08:23","slug":"42119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=42119","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Coronavirus drives gun sales in San Gabriel Valley area among Asian Americans who fear being attacked<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gun sales<\/a>\u00a0in the San Gabriel Valley, a region\u00a0east of Los Angeles<\/a>, have soared in recent weeks among Asian Americans who fear being attacked over the outbreak of the\u00a0coronavirus<\/a>, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Attacks on Asian Americans have been on the rise amid the\u00a0outbreak of COVID-19<\/a>. Earlier this month, a video emerged on Facebook of a man on a New York City subway spraying Febreze at an Asian subway straphanger, the\u00a0New York Post reported<\/a>. Police are investigated the incident as a hate crime.<\/p>\n

And last month, an Asian woman was attacked at a New York City subway station. A man noticed that she was wearing a face mask and called her a \u201cdiseased b—-.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Arcadia Firearm & Safety, a gun store in San Gabriel Valley, owner David Liu told\u00a0CBSLA<\/a>\u00a0he\u2019s had a surge of sales in recent weeks from Asian American customers who are concerned over the possibility of similar attacks.<\/p>\n

In the City of Industry, the store Gun Effects and Cloud Nine Fishing, has also experienced more Asian American customers buying firearms.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur staff is not accustomed to this kind of rush,\u201d owner Dennis Lin told\u00a0KABC<\/a>. \u201cBut this made it really, really crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lin said he believes the fear over the coronavirus is exaggerated.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust people discriminating,\u201d he said. \u201cWe forget, we\u2019re all people. We\u2019re in America, we\u2019re not in China.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Asians make up slightly less than 30 percent of the San Gabriel Valley\u2019s 1.85 million residents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coronavirus drives gun sales in San Gabriel Valley area among Asian Americans who fear being attacked Gun sales\u00a0in the San Gabriel Valley, a region\u00a0east of Los Angeles, have soared in recent weeks among Asian Americans who fear being attacked over the outbreak of the\u00a0coronavirus, according to reports. Attacks on Asian Americans have been on the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-rkba","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42120,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42119\/revisions\/42120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}