OpEd Tells LBGT Community How to Stand Up Against “Gun Violence”

By Beth Baumann

Can anyone explain why gun control advocates are so quick to push minorities into believing they’ll be a victim of “gun violence?”

Liberal media outlet The Trace recently published a “commentary” piece on why the LGBT community should be in favor of gun control.

The article read, in part:

Everything that has happened since Pulse has only served as a reminder that LGBTQ people must fight for their safety against the epidemic of gun violence, just as hard as they have fought for equality.

In other words, if you’re a member of the LGBT community, you should place your safety in other people’s hands instead of your own. You should sit back and allow yourself to be a victim instead of standing up and fighting for your life. Maybe if you hope for peace, it’ll just magically fall into your lap.

When the FBI released its annual report on hate crimes last fall, it reported a disturbing surge in bias-motivated crimes targeting transgender people. The four-fold increase reported by the FBI is likely only the tip of the iceberg, given that hate-crime reporting is not mandatory and too many local agencies don’t report any data on bias crimes.

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Source:: Bearing Arms