Frank Langfitt

Last month, President Trump minimized the contribution of NATO forces fighting in Afghanistan, saying they, quote, stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.

Ivar Gulbransen, a business consultant who's lived in the U.S., was among the protesters.

He noted that Denmark lost more soldiers per capita in the war than any other country.

Trump has complained that many NATO allies didn't spend enough on their own defense.

But the 2022 invasion of Ukraine and Trump's threats sparked a big jump in military spending.

Frank Langfitt, NPR News.

This is a Smith & Wesson 380.

And then my next gun will be a Glock.

And I already have a shotgun.

So this is a task I would stumble over.

Putting the bullets in.

Great to be here, Aisha.

Yeah, you know, Aisha, for years, really decades, the stereotypical image of American gun owners has been white, rural, and Republican.

And Charles, he's none of those things.

He's Black, liberal, and lives in the suburbs.

Charles did not buy guns illegally.

for some of the typical reasons we usually think of, like hunting or self-defense against random crime.

Instead, he's bought guns because he's afraid of some of President Trump's policies and what some of his supporters might do.

He told me over Trump's second term, he's seen a lot of things that scared him.

The arrest of a foreign student who criticized your university's policy on Israel.