Odette Yousef

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Minnesota shooting blurs political lines around guns · 29 Jan 2026 podcast

That's right.

So what I found is that there are specific circumstances in Minneapolis specifically that have really yielded a mix in terms of who's got permits to carry, who owns firearms.

And I started learning about this about a year ago, actually.

I was in Minneapolis to report on

how LGBTQ residents were showing a significant increase in interest in gun ownership and learning to use guns after Donald Trump was reelected.

And so while I was there, I hooked in with a small outfit called Sequarity.

They offer training and permit to carry classes specifically geared toward what might be considered non-traditional clients.

meaning, you know, people who, because of their race or ethnicity or gender identity, felt kind of uncomfortable showing up for those classes with more sort of traditional conservative people around them.

And so, so Sequarity, this group that I was, you know, profiling, they were dealing with a surge of interest, but really,

This shift, they told me, really had even started happening five years before that.

That's right.

So, you know, this was something that I really came to understand more deeply when I was there, is that the killing and the unrest that followed fundamentally changed how many people

Residents in Minneapolis look at law enforcement.

You know, the neighborhood around where George Floyd was killed was basically abandoned by police.

I don't know if you remember this, Tamara, but like the precinct, the police precinct in that area was burned.

The police vacated it and then they never came back.

And so those nights of unrest, there were chaos agents that were driving into those neighborhoods, white nationalist biker gangs coming from suburban Minneapolis and scaring people of color who lived in that area.

And so people were realizing that they couldn't rely on police to keep them safe.

They had to create their own safety.

And so for some, that included learning about and buying firearms.

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