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. 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.

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 *

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. Gays and guns seem as likely to go together as Nicki Maj and Mariah Carey.

GUNS GA GROUND AMONG GAY GROUPS

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

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.

MEET THE GAY LIBERTARIAN GUN NUTS

* 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.

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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 *

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.

PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY

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.

GAYS WH GUNS

"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.