Posted on 03/28/2023 10:35:19 AM PDT by Perseverando
A group of gay and trans people gather regularly in the woods of New Hampshire to practice shooting. They want to be ready to defend themselves from hate groups.
EYDER PERALTA, HOST:
Mass shootings targeting LGBTQ spaces and a rise in anti-trans rhetoric have inspired some queer people to take up arms. New Hampshire Public Radio's Todd Bookman joined the monthly gathering of a gun group that sees firearms as key to their own self-defense. And as you might imagine, the story does include the sound of gunfire.
TODD BOOKMAN, BYLINE: On a recent Sunday morning, the parking lot of Pawtuckaway State Park in southeastern New Hampshire is filling up with hikers. There's also a different crew packing up warm clothes and weapons.
FIN SMITH: Thank you all for coming to Rainbow Reload.
BOOKMAN: Today's organizer is Fin Smith. Like everybody else in this story, they've requested some level of anonymity because they fear for their safety.
SMITH: I recognize the temperature is freezing, and this is not the most comfortable, but if it's raining, we're training. If it's snowing, we're going.
BOOKMAN: Groups like Rainbow Reload exist around the country, often called pink pistol clubs. It's a place for experts and the gun-curious to practice and improve their shooting, but this goes beyond hobby. There's a practical goal here, to prepare and protect themselves.
SMITH: If the world is dangerous, then you have to be dangerous back. And that very much has pushed me into where I am now.
BOOKMAN: After giving a safety talk, Smith and a half-dozen others start hiking down a snow-covered trail. With long guns strapped over their shoulders, you can imagine the looks they get from dog walkers. One of the members, Sharon, recently transitioned.
SHARON: And I went
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“Hate groups” to include Kiddie Drag Show protesters.
No one is physically threatening trannies.
But if they haven’t committed a crime, and want to practice their gun rights, that’s fine by me.
I would not deny any sane person, even if they are a bit paranoid, the right to defend themselves. But the media has gotten them so stirred up about “hate crimes” against them, that I believe that ultimately the reports will leak out that the Nashville shooter’s manifesto will reveal that she was worked up by other “trans crimes” and decided to strike back at what she identified as the source of her angst; the church.
Has there ever been a straight person massacre on trannies in the USA?
I know of no mass shooting in the USA by straight people of gays, while there are 5 mass shooting by trannies.
The worst shooting of gays was the Pulse Nightclub, and that was by a self-hating gay Muslim.
If everyone has access to guns that’s what I want. No red flag laws or otherwise. Even released convicts should be allowed to own guns.
We believe these queers are nuts because that’s how we see it. Another person might perceive you or I might be nuts. I don’t want their standards to determine whether or not I can be armed.
If nothing else, folks who are nuts and pull their guns out maliciously we will get a chance to lower the odds of them doing harm when we shoot them.
ah yessss... now we get a current rendition of the Crying Game... from the SJW
Yeah...very concerning. This weekend could be an inflection point.
Exercising their god given and second amendment protected right to keep and bear arms.
usually the folks that have shot multiple people at a gay bar or night club.. are some form of the jilted and scorned LGBT genre.
Interesting source
They just want to be accepted. Even at gunpoint.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahaha! ! ! ! ! ! !*snort*! ! ! !cough, cough....
Morons.
Exactly. Obviously this is a well-timed plant story to try to change the narrative. It is has now been well established that the mentally unstable leftists have been the ones shooting up the schools and other public locations.
But if they haven’t committed a crime, and want to practice their gun rights, that’s fine by me.
And Uvalde.....
If America has learned anything from this ‘drag queen’ era of LGBTQ madness it is this:
Homosexuals enjoy victimizing children — one way or another.
clear body am from police takedown of school shooter. This should be used for police training in places like Uvalde.
Nashville PD has released another clip from bodycam footage, this time of officers neutralizing female-to-male transgender shooter Audrey Hale, who killed three children and three adults at a Christian school. (Shots fired at 2:00)
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