the Latino daily – Your Tuesday morning brief

TUESDAY, April 5, 2016


Good morning Taquistas!

This is the first story I read this morning and I’m obsessing over it a little.

It tells a story of the changing face of America, of transformation, and of Latino influence in one of the most treasured and politically volatile issues in our history.

►NRA, facing existential crisis, targets Latinos

Because, why not?

Actually, it’s a demographic/age thing. The National Rifle Association membership is getting smaller and older, and Latinos are growing and younger. So they produced a one-minute commercial called “Freedom’s Safest Place,” and in it 35 year-old Venezuelan-American Olympic pistol shooter Gabby Franco makes her case for gun rights: “The government took our guns…the biggest mistake Venezuelans made was believing that this would never happen.”

Fox News Latino reports: “In a dramatic minute, Franco warns Americans that her family and friends back in Venezuela have had their gun rights stripped away from them over the last few years – suggesting that as a result the country is suffering record violence under criminals who now outgun unarmed citizens.

“’Today, they would do anything for the Second Amendment freedom that we enjoy as Americans,’ she says while warning, ‘never ever take it for granted.’”

A couple of things to consider are that gun ownership has been in decline for the past 40 years, and a vast majority ofLatinos prefer gun control over gun rights.

That brings me to …
Tuesday’s numbers

62 – The percentage of registered Latino voters who prefer gun control over the rights of owners.

36 – The percentage of registered Latino voters who prefer the rights of gun owners over gun control.

44 – The percentage of registered Latino voters among those who prefer gun control who say that most Americans should be able to own guns if certain limits are in place.

18 – The percentage of registered Latino voters among those who prefer gun control who say only law enforcement and security personnel should be able to own guns.

27 – The percentage of registered Latino voters among those who prefer the rights of gun owners who favor some restrictions on gun ownership.

82 – The percentage of foreign-born Latinos (registered voters and not) who think controlling gun ownership is more important than protecting gun ownership rights.

20 – The percentage of U.S. Latinos who say they have a gun, rifle or pistol in their home.

Source: Pew Research Center


►It’s not just the NRA going after Latinos

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have both promised they’ll include Latinos in their cabinets.

At least, that’s what they told the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA). The group sent a 20 question survey to all of the presidential candidates but only got responses from . . . READ MORE



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