Anti-Gun LGBT Rally in DC - 8/13/16

Rack&Roll said:

Thanks Dogbone for this good info. Anyway we can get our "Orlando 49 Vigil" pictures posted on their forum?

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BeoBill said:

I'm in if I can find y'all. I think I'll just follow the sound of the loons screaming incoherently, or the scent of stale cat urine...

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Stoveman said:

Dblas or MXRider - can MSI put an email blast out? Sounds like you have quite a few new members, good time to get them acclimated to some up front and personal 2A political action.

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Jonathan Fischer is never sure who’s going to be more surprised when he, as he likes to put it, comes out of the gun closet — the gun aficionados who find out he’s gay or the gay friends who find out he likes shooting guns.

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Gwendolyn Patton, the national spokeswoman for the Pink Pistols, has spent the summer trying to keep up with the all inquiries about the group and how to start new chapters.

“People don’t like to feel helpless,” said Patton, a lesbian who lives outside Philadelphia.

The Pink Pistols has received a mostly negative response from the broader LGBT community, she said. Some LGBT centers, she said, have even specifically banned the Pink Pistols from using their facilities.

The group dates to 2000 when gay author and journalist Jonathan Rauch wrote an article for Salon.com calling for gay people to “set up Pink Pistols task forces,” get licensed to carry guns and arm themselves to protect their community.”

“Not all that many gay people would need to carry guns, as long as gay-bashers couldn’t tell which ones did,” Rauch wrote.

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“There is a huge amount of anti-gay stereotype in America that has to do with weakness — people calling us limp-wristed and fairies,” Rauch said. “Over the years, many gay people came to internalize this stereotype and assume that we are weak and defenseless, and of course we are not.”

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Though the group is not, according to Patton, affiliated with the National Rifle Assn., it has worked with them and has become increasingly involved in gun-control litigation. The Pink Pistols filed an amicus brief in the federal appeals case Peruta vs. County of San Diego — in which the court ruled in June that people do not have a 2nd Amendment right to carry a concealed firearm in public and that local authorities can require people to show “good cause” before issuing them a permit to do so.

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EL1227 said:

Are you listening Maryland ?

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GTOGUNNER said:

Hummm general public can attend...

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smokey0118 said:

I'm for "common sense gun laws" and "compromise".... pass a law that doesn't allow criminals that used a gun to commit their violent crime to get out early on good behavior. In exchange (the compromise part), repeal the NFA so that law-abiding citizens can get easier access to safety equipment like suppressors, and short-barreled rifles that are ideal for home defense. Seems pretty common sense to me and is actually a compromise in which there is give AND take rather than Take a lot...ok, we'll just take a little less.

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Mightydog said:

That should also include O'bummers pardons and commutations. Like to see how many pardoned/sentence commutations are back in the slammer.

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dogbone said:

Apparently not...

Violence against LGBTQ populations: the public health response
http://hub.jhu.edu/events/2016/09/12/violence-against-lgbtq-populations-the-public-health-response/

Panelists:

- Monica Yorkman, leadership team, Baltimore Transgender Alliance
- Ava Peptone, executive director, Baltimore Transgender Alliance
- Daniel Webster, director, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research

Sounds like a couple of hours of "Gunz 'r bad"

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BeoBill said:

Do you need to carry in that neighborhood, or is that just after sundown?

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