Alphecca

Anti-Gay Comments

No, not here -- I'm used to that -- but in a forum at ar15.com. This was pointed out to me the other day by Ry at Mindless Bit Spew and he wrote asking what I thought about it. At the time, there were just a few comments and they were pretty tame compared to many I have seen in the past but they are starting to get a bit nastier. Ry left a well thought out comment on the forum that perhaps such a place was better left to the discussion of guns and gun rights.

Further, he, as well as James R. Rummel at Hell in a Handbasket and Joe Huffman at The View From North Central Idaho have -- and they're all straight -- tried to encourage various minorities including gays and lesbians to look beyond the stereotypes of the typical gun owner and become gun owners themselves, both for the sport of it and for their personal defense.

As was pointed out, all it takes is a few foolish comments to scare these folks off or convince them that their support of the Second Amendment isn't needed. But it is. Gays tend to vote Democratic (myself excepted) and by including or at least educating them about gun issues, they can influence the thinking and voting of the Party. That's not to say anyone is trying to use them for a political agenda. I have written here many times that it is completely logical for gays to take their personal protection into their own hands and not to rely on the police, or laws to come to their aid when bashers target them.

Anyway, I thank the three gentlemen above for their support of the Pink Pistols and other organizations as well as their words of moderation towards some of the people who work at cross-purposes within the gun rights community.