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Gay Americans are arming themselves to stay alive

Postby Ghost on Tue Jun 12, 2018 10:46 pm

https://nypost.com/2018/06/12/gay-americans-are-arming-themselves-to-stay-alive/
“I don’t want to get beaten to death, stabbed and burnt alive,” a slight woman with long blond hair and a checked shirt says. “I want a gun to feel equal.”

She is a member of one of the United States’ fastest-growing gun clubs, the jauntily named Pink Pistols.

Two years after the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, gay, lesbian and transgender Americans are nervous. According to the Human Rights Center (HRC), a US LGBTI advocacy group, 52 gay people were murdered in the US last year because of their sexuality, and 28 transgender people met the same fate.

In increasing numbers, they are fighting back by taking up arms.

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Re: Gay Americans are arming themselves to stay alive

Postby yukonjasper on Tue Jun 12, 2018 11:32 pm

Fantastic, welcome to.our brothers and sisters flying the rainbow flag. Personal safety and leveling the playing field are keys to freedom. The ability to fight against oppression is exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
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Re: Gay Americans are arming themselves to stay alive

Postby Ghost on Wed Jun 13, 2018 12:04 am

A couple other quotes from the article for those that aren’t reading it

“There is one murder per week of a gay person purely because they’re gay, and that’s really horrifying. The level of homophobia and transphobia in the USA is out of control and some people told me a gun is the difference between living and dying.”


“I would never have thought I’d see the LGBTI community siding with incredibly conservative, right-wing, pro-gun advocates that have been publicly homophobic and transphobic — that didn’t make any sense,” Abboud explained.
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Re: Gay Americans are arming themselves to stay alive

Postby Grayskies on Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:50 am

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Re: Gay Americans are arming themselves to stay alive

Postby Pat on Wed Jun 13, 2018 11:50 am

I have ultra liberal friends who have within the last year purchased pistols and went through the training, etc., to carry them.
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Re: Gay Americans are arming themselves to stay alive

Postby photogpat on Wed Jun 13, 2018 11:52 am

Not really news, it's pretty simple.

Armed gays don't get bashed.
Nothing to see here. Continue swimming.
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Re: Gay Americans are arming themselves to stay alive

Postby Ghost on Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:10 am

I’m surprised nobody noticed it is essentially saying that the NRA (conservative, right wing and pro-gun) is publicly homophobic and transphobic.
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Re: Gay Americans are arming themselves to stay alive

Postby Randygmn on Sat Jun 16, 2018 8:11 am

“God made man. Sam Colt made them equal”. Still applies today.
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Re: Gay Americans are arming themselves to stay alive

Postby Holland&Holland on Sat Jun 16, 2018 9:22 am

Randygmn wrote:“God made man. Sam Colt made them equal”. Still applies today.


I dunno, might need to change that to John Moses Browning at this point, ole Sam and his Walker might not be quite the match anymore... ;)
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Re: Gay Americans are arming themselves to stay alive

Postby Lumpy on Sat Jun 16, 2018 5:02 pm

I love the thought of antis choking on this.
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