please welcome roxane gay! [cheers and applause] wow, all right. about guns? >> a lot of different things, but my brother was a big gun owner, very enthusiastic about guns, which was weird, because nobody in my family cares about guns and we were like, where did this come from? >> michael: yeah. >> and he kept trying to get my other brother and i to buy a gun and we are like, no, we are good. finally, he broke us all down and so i got my first gun, and one of the things i noticed at the gun store and at the gun range was that there were a lot of people of color and black women in particular. and so i thought, why are black women buying guns? other than the obvious. [laughter] >> michael: well, why are black women buying guns? >> black woman, i think, are buying guns simply because we often recognize if we don't protect ourselves, no one else will. a lot of times it's that we don't trust that the police will come to our homes and protect us and in fact, sonya massey's murder recently bears that out among many others. and so i think it is not a form