Posted on 10/01/2018 8:45:38 AM PDT by Simon Green
(The new coordinator of the Pink Pistols, Erin Palette, addressed the crowd at the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Chicago.)
Two of the gun industry’s most prominent LGBTQ pro-gun organizations — the Pink Pistols and Operation Blazing Sword — have teamed up to better enhance the fight for gun rights for all.
The two organizations announced their merger at the 33rd Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference held in Chicago in late September. Accompanying the merger was the announcement that current First Speaker for Pink Pistols, Gwen Patton, would be stepping down from her leadership role. In her place, Operation Blazing Sword founder Erin Palette will be stepping in as coordinator for the Pink Pistols.
Founded in 2001 in response to hate crimes against the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered communities, the Pink Pistols sought to empower those who were victims to homophobia and violence as a result of their sexual preference. The organization now boasts 55 active chapters in North America with membership in the thousands.
Speaking to the crowd at the GRPC, California Pink Pistols leader Nicole Stallard explained that gun rights are not a straight, gay or bi issue but rather a right all Americans should stand for.
“As Americans we have more that unites us than divides us. Human rights, especially the right to our lives, is universal,” Stallard said. “Your beliefs, political orientation and your gender or sexual orientation are all independent of each other….What really matters is the content of a person’s character.”
Stallard said the need for a LGBT centered group became even more evident after a gunman entered Pulse Nightclub in Orlando on June 12, 2016, gunning down visitors to the gay nightclub. Calling it the “9/11 wake-up for the gay community,” Stallard illustrated why organizations like the Pink Pistols and Operation Blazing Sword are so vital to the LGBTQ community.
“We said enough. We refuse to be victims,” Stallard passionated stated. “We are promoting real world options based on a victor mindset not a victim mindset.”
Freaks with guns. Of course it’s their constitutional right, but not a good idea.
However, I found this a little off-putting:
Stallard said the need for a LGBT centered group became even more evident after a gunman entered Pulse Nightclub in Orlando on June 12, 2016, gunning down visitors to the gay nightclub.
A bar or a nightclub can be a dangerous place. I'm not sure that extending the RKBA into drinking establishments so that patrons can defend themselves in the event of trouble is a good idea. I guess I'm glad they see "the need" for a group, but I don't see how the group can really protect against random shootings at nightclubs.
But perhaps I worry too much about a small detail.
Content of character is something many Americans have been ignoring. I mean the left.
The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend!
Arming the fringe of society will not reflect well on us when they loose it and start killing each other.
Attention, all Queers: QUIT VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS!!!
Is law enforcement wearing HAZMAT suits...Man, I would not want to be anywhere near that freak show...The smell alone would knock a buzzard off a $hit wagon.
The NRA and the LGBTQ; strange bedfellows indeed.
Hey! Someone had to say it!
Still; a right is a right. Sexual preference or perversions doesn’t discriminate with rights.
People who are different need guns for self defense more than anyone because they are more likely to be targeted.
But we have no hope at all if we say "The right 'shall not be infringed' except for a few groups of there whom we consider to be kinda freaky, so we say no guns for them."
Like it or not, self-defense is a God-given right which is acknowledged in our Constitution for all the people.
These people may not be my friends, but if they push for RKBA, I'll stand with them.
This is a common mistake of logic.
Protecting rights is not the same as actively "arming".
Protecting the right of the people to keep and bear arms is significantly different from giving them arms.
The philosophy of the U.S. legal structure is that if an action is not prohibited, it is allowed. Much of European legal philosophy is based on the opposite idea, that if it is not allowed it is prohibited.
Totalitarian philosophy is that which is not mandatory, is prohibited.
Politics make for strange bedfellows..................literally..................
Agreed. Guns are the great equalizer so that the week can defend themselves from attack.
Any minority group should understand how important the 2nd is, its a no brainer.
“the 33rd Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference held in Chicago”
Who picked that location I wonder.
That's debatable. The most likely targets for violence are people who appear to have wealth or portable property, not people who are "different."
They fear yahoos who might decide to drag homosexuals behind their vehicles. I do not agree with their lifestyle, but defend their right to exist and protect themselves.
This is the very antithesis of which the left holds dear and holds us hostage. If not ostracized as heretics, this new organization could lead their own "walk away" movement.
“Arming the fringe of society will not reflect well on us when they loose it and start killing each other.”
The fringe of society killing each other will not reflect well? It’s like a problem curing itself, just too good to be true.
Seriously, we should not pick and choose who can have guns when we take into account that nasty little clause “it shall not be infringed.” A right such as this must apply to all equally.
IMO it’s even wrong to take guns away from convicted felons that have paid their dues. Then we have mental health issues where that little phrase “a danger to himself and others” can be so liberally applied by any whack-job shrink and made legal by a lib judge.
And the day will come when the vets getting shot at while defending our country will have their guns taken away simply because they have PTSD.
This infringement business has gone too far already, let the subjects of the article have guns.
Good.
ANYONE who would harass or bully another person who isn’t bothering them by their actions deserves to be 6 feet under.
I don’t care who or what the A-holes who harass people for the fun or self-righteousness of it are harassing; if somebody isn’t picking my pocket or directly infringing on my liberty they have the right to be left alone and the right to terminate any person threatening or harassing them.
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