I guess I'm considered a "minority" (Puerto Rican). I'm still relatively new to the shooting sports, but I've bought a few firearms way before the last election. I'm not any more fearful or paranoid than before the election, but that's just me.
I've noticed I'm usually one of a few minorities at any of the local ranges I go to here in Texas. Don't know why that is. But at the CHL class I took a few years ago, the majority in my class were actually minorities (African Americans and Hispanics, both men and women). Based on the demographic of that class, I'm wondering if, at least here in Texas, a state with a very large Hispanic and African American population, minorities have historically bought firearms. I just haven't seen hardly any at the few outdoor ranges I've visited in the Dallas area for some reason, but I admit I haven't had a chance to go to the range as much as I'd like since the election.
My wife is a proud, naturalized American citizen born in Mexico but raised in Texas. Despite her US citizenship, though, she's become more afraid since the election, as have some of her other Hispanic lady friends.
Part of that fear stems from a negative comment she personally received since the election, which makes one wonder whether its timing was just a coincidence or whether the insulter felt emboldened as a result of the election. The other part is from increased media reports of racial/ethnic tensions. Again, we don't know if it's just the media sensationalizing tensions that aren't any more prevalent than they've been in the past, or if those tensions have, in fact, increased because of the election result. Based on that fear, however valid or misperceived as it may be, she's expressed a greater desire to learn how to handle and shoot a gun and to get her concealed handgun license. I think it's great that she now wants to exercise her 2nd Amendment rights, but it's a shame that it's due to her fear.
It makes me wonder if other American minorities have also grown more fearful since the election and as a result have resorted to buying firearms for protection as that Foxnews article seems to suggest. If so, then at least those minorities who now lawfully own firearms, where once they hadn't, can better appreciate their 2nd Amendment rights and can hopefully be added to the rolls of those of us who've supported and defended the 2nd Amendment.