Pride Month Shines A Light On Something Many In The 2A Community Have Ignored

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Elise Amendola

With it being Pride Month, there’s a lot of attention on the LGBT community. This has, undoubtedly, annoyed some people. Among those are probably folks who consider themselves to be pro-Second Amendment.

However, a recent story in the New York Post points out that the pro-2A crowd should make a very concerted effort to reach out to the LGBT community. After all, it seems a lot of them are buying guns, and they’re not taking up deer hunting.

“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 Centre (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.

Regardless of your opinion on homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality, or anything else, everyone …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms