PHILADELPHIA — Try as he might, Tom Nelson jt uld not get any other gay people to the gun range. For the past four years he sent out email vatns to a lol mailg list for Pk Pistols, a shootg group that enurag members of the LGBT muny to rry ncealed firearms. Then, on th...
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- PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY
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PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY
Meet Pk Pistols, the natnal gay group dited to armg the LGBT muny and fightg homophobia wh firepower – or at least the threat of * gay guy with pink gun *
Meet natnal gay group dited to fightg homophobia wh firepower – and why they thk gay rights and gun rights are a natural f. But I felt nfint my teacher, Jeff Bloovman, a Philalphia gun stctor and a member of the Pk Pistols, an LGBT group based around the belief that guns n go a long way batg homophobia.
A small, loosely anized group of a few dozen chapters sttered across the stat and Canada, cludg Toronto, San Francis and Charlton, South Carola, the Pk Pistols’ membership has climbed om around 1, 500 earlier this month to about 6, 500 sce the June day Omar Mateen attacked the Pulse nightclub, turng the dance floor to a killg field and crashg together two culture war battlegrounds that rarely nverge: gays and guns.
While the majory of LGBT people seem to be llg for more regulatn, Pk Pistols and their alli are hunkerg down and takg up arms, bandg together unr the group’s motto, a nontatnal warng to potential gay-bashers: “Pick on someone your own liber. The Pk Pistols formed around 2000, after gay journalist Jonathan Rch – still outraged by Matthew Shepard’s 1998 murr, and knowg gay men who stopped attacks wh guns – published an article on Salon. “[Gays] should set up Pk Pistols task forc, sponsor shootg urs and help homosexuals get licensed to rry, ” he wrote, notg that they should do a way to garner as much publicy as possible.
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“Pk pistols, ” he wrote, “would do far more for the self-teem of the next generatn of gay men and women than any number of hate-crime laws or anti-discrimatn statut. Rch went on: “If beme wily known that homosexuals rry guns and know how to e them, not many bullets would need to be fired. In fact, not all that many gay people would need to rry guns, as long as gay-bashers uldn’t tell which on did.
” Jt knowg that a gay person uld have a gun would ter a potential attacker.