Gettg to Know the Gun-Lovg Gays, Jews and Mothers of Ameri

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GAYS WH GUNS?
GUNS GA GROUND AMONG GAY GROUPS
MEET THE GAY LIBERTARIAN GUN NUTS
734 GAYS AGAST GUNS STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
FOR YEARS, HE TRIED TO GET OTHER GAY PEOPLE TO THE GUN RANGE. WOULD THEY E NOW?
PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY
GAYS WH GUNS
GETTG TO KNOW THE GUN-LOVG GAYS, JEWS AND MOTHERS OF AMERI

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A group of gay and trans people gather regularly the woods of New Hampshire to practice shootg. They want to be ready to fend themselv om hate groups. * gays with guns *

This one featured a silver bullet, the tip of fire blue, next to the words “Gays wh Guns.

GAYS WH GUNS?

Wh the recent strg of anti-gay attacks New York Cy, may e to no surprise to some that LGBT groups supportg the right to bear arms are begng to ga some momentum wh the muny. * gays with guns *

How uld any self-rpectg gay person support guns? Gays wh Guns simply didn’t make sense.

The mottos of the Pk Pistols say all: “Armed Gays Don’t Get Bashed” and “We Teach Queers to Shoot and We Teach the World We Did It. The motto on their Facebook page stat: “Not gay as happy, but queer as fuck you.

“We regnize that the LGBTQ body is unr attack, It’s always been unr attack, ” said John Grwiler, one of the prcipal anizers of Gays Agast Guns (GAG) a New York-based “clive direct actn group of LGBTQ people and their alli mted to nonvlently breakg the gun dtry’s cha of ath. That’s not a world I want to live or a world we, Gays Agast Guns, want to support. “People are adults, they n make their own choic, But we’re not gog to get volved a turf war between Pk Pistols and Gays Agast Guns, ” said Grwiler.

GUNS GA GROUND AMONG GAY GROUPS

Gay libertarian activists argue that more guns would help prevent hate crim. * gays with guns *

An LGBT advocy group lled the Pk Pistols thks that rather than place rtrictns on gun sal, members of the gay muny should arm themselvfor protectn agast hate crim. A group of gay and trans people gather regularly the woods of New Hampshire to practice shootg. There's not a ton of data on LGBTQ gun ownership, but a UCLA study om 2020 found that about 21% of lbian, gay and bisexual people live a hoe wh a firearm.

MEET THE GAY LIBERTARIAN GUN NUTS

* gays with guns *

Gays and guns seem as likely to go together as Nicki Maj and Mariah Carey. Wh tagl like "pick on someone your own liber, " and "armed gays don't get bashed, " Patton says Pk Pistols chang the perceptn that gay people are easy victims. Gays Wh Guns' flyer.

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Browse Getty Imag' premium llectn of high-qualy, thentic Gays Agast Guns stock photos, royalty-ee imag, and pictur. Gays Agast Guns stock photos are available a variety of siz and formats to f your needs. * gays with guns *

"Thirty-one stat allow all qualified cizens to rry ncealed weapons, " Pk Pistols officials say a post on their webse, "In those stat, homosexuals should embark on anized efforts to bee fortable wh guns, learn to e them safely and rry them. They should set up Pk Pistols task forc; sponsor shootg urs and help homosexuals get licensed to rry. "Another aggrsive pro-gun/pro-gay group, appropriately named, offers a ee downloadable flyer wh a picture of Matthew Shepard on , which reads, "The notn that Matthew Shepard tied to a fence post the middle of a eezg Wyomg night, tortured and beaten to ath, is morally superr to Matthew Shepard explag to the lol sheriff how his attackers got all those bullet hol.

""If Matthew Shepard rried a ncealed gun and had basic safety trag the oute would likely been very different, " ntu the statement on the Gay wh Guns flyer. "Wh the alarmg number of Gay/LBT hate crim owng a gun and learng how to e right may jt save a life. Gun ownership ed to protect agast hate crim is rare and gay gun ownership ed to protect agast hate crim is even more wh Guns webse, however, lks to a subredd page lled the Defensive Gun Use (DGU), which is dited to talogg cints the U.

Neverthels, the msage is ronatg wh some LGBT people who feel they need to protect themselv and Pk Pistols and Gays Wh Guns have partnered wh the Natnal Associatn for Gun Rights, Firearms Policy Coaln, The Liberal Gun Club and more. Though Pk Pistols and Gays Wh Guns may be the biggt and most vol pro-gay/pro-gun groups, they aren't the only LGBT gun advocy groups out there., which hosts Big Gay Al's Big Gay (Gun) Blog and is lked to the ordator of the Michigan Pk Pistols group, stat the Michigan Pk Pistols are a "GLBT and kk iendly, shootg sports group.

FOR YEARS, HE TRIED TO GET OTHER GAY PEOPLE TO THE GUN RANGE. WOULD THEY E NOW?

Meet Pk Pistols, the natnal gay group dited to armg the LGBT muny and fightg homophobia wh firepower – or at least the threat of * gays with guns *

"The blog is srcely updated, sometim months pass whout a sgle post, but when Blogger Big Gay Al do update the se, his posts have the same rhetoric as the other groups. Big Gay Al says his webse is, "mostly about guns and gun rights, open and ncealed rry, and sometim about other thgs, and 's so GAY!

"In a post tled, "A plea to Suts: Don't let the 'bad guys' w, " Big Gay Al laments about the people who give nservativ a bad name and then advis, "Take my advice, you're a known member of your lol LGBT muny, legally arm yourself. "Although most of the s aren't regularly managed, would seem that the number of gays owng guns and beg vol about their Send Amendment rights is growg. " The se also not that you don't even have to be gay to jo.

PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY

"We clu members om the GLBT, Polyamaro, and BDSM muni, but you don't need to be gay or have an alternative sexualy to jo and shoot wh , " Pk Pistols says. Shn Kntel is an openly gay journalist and public affairs specialist livg Seattle. In addn to wrg for EDGE, Kntel is the current Associate Edor for Seattle Gay News.

Weapons sal and membership a group llg on gays and lbians to arm themselv self-fense agast homophobic attacks have surged sce the massacre at a gay nightclub Florida last group, the Pk Pistols, announced last week a triplg acknowledged members the five days sce a gunman killed 49 people and jured 53 an attack on Pulse Orlando the early hours of 12 Pk Pistols, a gun club predomantly for LGBT members and their supporters, promot “legal, safe and rponsible e of firearms for self fense of the sexual mory muny” acrdg to s webse. But wh no formal registratn system or fe for jog the Pk Pistols, there were no reliable membership numbers available for the group self, she apparent surge tert guns om the LGBT muny as posters and flags have been reported at a number of lotns, cludg streets Los Angel’s gay neighborhood Wt Hollywood and outsi a ntroversial event Orlando, pictg a rabow versn of the revolutnary war-era Gadsn Flag – a flag more ually associated wh Tea Party nservativ than wh gay rights of the Gadsn symbols seen ploy the anti-ernment slogan “Don’t tread on me” beneath the tradnal image of a snake poised to strike, while others have substuted a seemg ll to arms via social media, “#ShootBack”, on a rabow-striped background, the lor scheme long ago adopted by the gay equaly movement. Photograph: Gays Wh GunsThe Pk Pistols has 45 chapters across the US that generally meet once a month, wh members and supporters also Canada and other untri.

I was enraged, hurt and sadned, but I know this is not gog to be the last [attack], ” Patton Pk Pistols promot gun-rryg for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people as “an act of dividual rponsibily and as the bt tool for gettg out of a crimal enunter unharmed”, she group’s slogan is “Pick on someone your own liber”, and issued a statement the aftermath of the massacre that said the event was “exactly the kd of heo act that jtifi the existence” of Pk Pistols.

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But I would like to see changed so that at least if we are not drkg we should be able to rry a gun a bar, ” Patton said the Pk Pistols was found 2000 Boston by a small group of iends, partly rponse to an article published on the Salon webse by wrer and Brookgs Instutn senr fellow Jonathan ’s article ed the phrase “pk pistols” the ntext of urgg lbians and gay people to rry licensed, ncealed weapons for protectn agast gay-bashg of assumed “helpls victims”, and to bat an image of weakns as “the fg stereotype of homosexualy” said on Thursday that his views exprsed the article still stood. “Beg able to rely on ourselv for self-fense is an important part of standg up for ourselv, ” he said that the gay pro-gun lobby and a group like Pk Pistols were generally “different om tradnal Natnal Rifle Associatn-oriented plac” and often attracted non-gay supporters who were “unfortable wh the aggrsive all-or-nothg culture of the NRA”.