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Newly formed Gays Against Guns group advocates against gun violence
pix11.com ^ | 6-26-16 | Talia Tirella

Posted on 06/26/2016 5:24:26 PM PDT by smokingfrog

A new group in the LGBT community has formed to spread awareness about gun violence.

Gays Against Guns formed in the aftermath of the Orlando shooting and met on June 17 to officially organize and make plans to be in the NYC Pride March, according to a press release.

The group, comprised of LGBT New Yorkers and allies, marched during the Pride parade on Sunday to help remember the 49 victims of the Orlando shooting and to spread awareness of their message.

However, its main goal is to advocate working through peaceful actions to prevent another massacre like the Orlando shooting.

The group will focus on gun policy in the U.S., specifically banning access to high-capacity magazine guns and assault weapons, creating stricter background check systems, banning gun sales over the internet and closing the loophole that allows weapons sales at gun shows without background checks.

The group’s website said it aims to formalize its responsibility and find its place within the larger gun control movement.

“Government has failed us. Life is valuable, and we’re at our best when life is celebrated in peace. Actions speak louder than petitions, lobbyists, prayers, thoughts and moments of silence,” the statement read.

(Excerpt) Read more at pix11.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: banglist; gaysagainstguns; guncontrol
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1 posted on 06/26/2016 5:24:26 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

“Government has failed us.”

So their answer is more government control. You can’t fix stupid.


2 posted on 06/26/2016 5:26:32 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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To: smokingfrog

I’d rather join GAG than GLUG (Gays Licking Ugly Guys). I’ve still got a little bit of pride.


3 posted on 06/26/2016 5:28:01 PM PDT by alstewartfan (I sit here by the banks of the Rhine Dipping my feet in the cold stream of time. 1934 by Al Stewart)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Liberal logic


4 posted on 06/26/2016 5:28:49 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: alstewartfan

LOL!!!!!!!


5 posted on 06/26/2016 5:30:42 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: smokingfrog
its main goal is to advocate working through peaceful actions

Sounds like it is anti-Islamic!

6 posted on 06/26/2016 5:31:08 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: smokingfrog

49 killed and 53 injured by that muzzie savage were the numbers I heard the next day. As far as I know NONE of those 53 died from their gunshot wounds. Can that be possible? Anyone know anything different on that 53 wounded/ALL survived number?


7 posted on 06/26/2016 5:32:49 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: smokingfrog

Has anyone else noticed, that the liberals and the media have made Orlando all about gun control, and to an extent about gays?? But they are virtually ignoring the fact that Orlando was the deadliest terrorist attack in America since 9/11??


8 posted on 06/26/2016 5:33:41 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: smokingfrog

Against Guns?

They want to pull a Caitlyn?


9 posted on 06/26/2016 5:34:10 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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To: smokingfrog

LOL.

how about...

Fruits against Firearms

Receivers against Revolvers :)


10 posted on 06/26/2016 5:36:00 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: smokingfrog

...However, its main goal is to advocate working through peaceful actions to prevent another massacre like the Orlando shooting...

Does part of the peaceful actions include a rewrite of the Koran statements about homosexuals? If not, they still have a major problem worse than most other infidels.


11 posted on 06/26/2016 5:36:40 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: smokingfrog

These people are STUPID!...........


12 posted on 06/26/2016 5:36:54 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: smokingfrog

Media: “We need an anti-gun ‘Gay” group... stat!”


13 posted on 06/26/2016 5:38:12 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: smokingfrog
Life is valuable, and we’re at our best when life is celebrated in peace.

I wonder if that 'life is valuable' thing is going to be enough for HIV/AIDS infected gays to start practicing celibacy to prevent more gay on gay murders like Orlando? Probably a lot easier to just blame guns, tho.

14 posted on 06/26/2016 5:39:12 PM PDT by blueplum (March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?)
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To: smokingfrog

Ok. Christians and gays agree in peaceful conflict resolution. Alas that’s completely irrelevant to Orlando.


15 posted on 06/26/2016 5:40:49 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: smokingfrog

Fruits Against Guns was a close second.


16 posted on 06/26/2016 5:41:15 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: smokingfrog

Wake me when they start a group called Gays Against Being Thrown off Buildings and Stoned by Muslims When the First Murder Attempt for Being GAY Doesn’t Work.


17 posted on 06/26/2016 5:45:08 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: smokingfrog

On Twitter since Orlando, the gays seem to have gone our way rather than this tripe. They are all over the place with don’t tread on me flags, buying guns and ammo at ultra high rates and taking shooting classes. Much of this energized by breitbart’ Milo, who is more of a conservative than Paul Ryan on his best day. Just sayin’...


18 posted on 06/26/2016 5:47:32 PM PDT by major-pelham
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To: smokingfrog

Ninety percent of gays are democrats... this isn’t ‘news’... it’s dog bites man... What’s your next post? Gays form group in support of global warming?


19 posted on 06/26/2016 5:50:21 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Elites' on both sides of the pond are scared the gravy train's ending - demographic warfare exposed)
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To: smokingfrog

Let me take a wild guess here. None of these people in this newly formed group were in the nightclub the night of the shooting.


20 posted on 06/26/2016 5:51:49 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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