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LGBTQ Gun Rights Group on Orlando: 'Guns Didn't Do This, A Human Who Hated Gays Did'
townhall.com ^ | 6/13/2016 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 06/13/2016 6:38:22 AM PDT by rktman

“The Pink Pistols gives condolences to all family and friends of those killed and injured at Pulse,” First Speaker of the Pink Pistols Gwendolyn Patton said in a statement. “This is exactly the kind of heinous act that justifies our existence. At such a time of tragedy, let us not reach for the low-hanging fruit of blaming the killer’s guns. Let us stay focused on the fact that someone hated gay people so much they were ready to kill or injure so many. A human being did this. The human being’s tools are unimportant when compared to the bleakness of that person’s soul. I say again, GUNS did not do this. A human being did this, a dead human being. Our job now is not to demonize the man’s tools, but to condemn his acts and work to prevent such acts in the future.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Florida; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2a; afghanistan; banglist; florida; gaykkk; guncontrol; gunfreezone; homosexualagenda; katiepavlich; libertarians; medicalmarijuana; omarmateen; orlando; pulsenightclub; waronterror
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Kinda not sure about the header. These assclowns don't need anything other than the fact that you/we don't revere is-lame as they want us to do. It could have just as easily been a straight night club where the perp was offended by scantily clad young ladies and the mass consumption of alcohol. Contrary to what the "celebs", the lyin' king and most other progs/commies say, it is NOT the tool that is the issue.
1 posted on 06/13/2016 6:38:22 AM PDT by rktman
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It is striking to me that in Florida, no one in the club was armed. I always assume that half the people in Florida are packing heat, but maybe not.

Had anyone in the club been armed, this ought to have had a very different outcome. I don’t think the shooter had much courage, so any lead coming his way would have changed everything.


2 posted on 06/13/2016 6:41:30 AM PDT by marron
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To: rktman

To be more specific, it was a Muslim.


3 posted on 06/13/2016 6:42:06 AM 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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If you can carry, do it. If you get to your car and didn’t bring your sidearm, go back inside and get it. Never be without it. The life you save may be your own, or another, or maybe even 49 others


4 posted on 06/13/2016 6:43:44 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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It was a Gun Free Zone. Which is the type of soft target the Jihadists are told to select because they know there will be no armed resistance.


5 posted on 06/13/2016 6:44:48 AM PDT by MNnice
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In Florida, all places that sell liquor are gun free zones.


6 posted on 06/13/2016 6:45:51 AM PDT by MNnice
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From what I’ve read, Florida’s gun laws make it illegal to carry in any establishment that serves alcohol — the club was, by law, a gun-free zone. Well, mostly...


7 posted on 06/13/2016 6:46:54 AM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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Had anyone in the club been armed, this ought to have had a very different outcome.

That would have required a change in Florida law, which prohibits a person from carrying a firearm into a bar.

8 posted on 06/13/2016 6:48:18 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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Fl statute prohibits carrying at locations where booze is served. There is (if I remember right) an exclusion if it’s a restaurant that also serves booze. Anyway, it was, as expected, a gun free zone. And yes, I believe that FL has the highest rate of CCW holders.


9 posted on 06/13/2016 6:48:19 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Had anyone in the club been armed, this ought to have had a very different outcome. I don’t think the shooter had much courage, so any lead coming his way would have changed everything.

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It occurred to me too. More than 300 people there and not one was armed.


10 posted on 06/13/2016 6:50:29 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Crooked Hillary's going down and I aint talkin about, on Huma.)
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Libs, please note: Muslims kill homosexual people as a matter of policy. They rape pretty women, policy again. Enjoy what you in your ignorance have unleashed upon our Nation.


11 posted on 06/13/2016 6:50:41 AM PDT by GingisK
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....It’s striking to me that in Florida...
no one in the bar was carrying...

As part of getting this pioneering CCW law in Florida in the early 90’s, concessions were made.
In Florida, it is generally illegal to carry a weapon. ... where the service of alcohol is the primary function, i.e., the bar area of a restaurant or club.

It is time to end that ban.


12 posted on 06/13/2016 6:50:50 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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I presume the nightclub was a gun-free zone which made it a free fire zone for the islamist. One off duty police officer wasn’t able to put him down, but perhaps a couple concealed carry “pink pistol”’members in the bar could have made a difference.


13 posted on 06/13/2016 6:50:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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The club’s policy prohibited guns. Enforced free kill zone.


14 posted on 06/13/2016 6:51:26 AM PDT by GingisK
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I think the rape all women. Pretty or not. Just to show ‘em who’s the boss.


15 posted on 06/13/2016 6:52:12 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Yeah but that would have meant breaking the law. That’s not what law abiding citizens do. At the risk of their lives obviously.


16 posted on 06/13/2016 6:53:30 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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He hated Jews, Blacks and Christians, too, buttercup.


17 posted on 06/13/2016 6:55:27 AM PDT by Fido969
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So we can expect this kind of sorrow and compassion for our feelings when its a Baptist vacation bible school that gets massacred next, right?


18 posted on 06/13/2016 6:59:28 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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a MUSLIM did this on American soil. Time for Muslims in America to formally denounce this, or leave America, today.


19 posted on 06/13/2016 7:04:52 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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Ut O

That is off of the approved narrative.

Didn’t their hear Obama and Clinton? Both stayed on narrative and blamed guns. The Dem Rep for that area of Florida was on camera yesterday morning and on narrative of blaming guns. Many of the news commentators by late Sunday were on narrative and blaming guns.

It is difficult for the Libs when one narrative-group is attacked by another narrative-group. What’s a good Liberal to do? Which narrative-group do they support? Decisions. Decisions.


20 posted on 06/13/2016 7:09:28 AM PDT by TomGuy
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