< snort >
I ain't buyin' what yer sellin'.
“Right ... so your inked up gear-queer hero”
I wasn’t aware that you are so well acquainted with the man in question. Never met him, myself.
I have seen in the last couple of decades, though, that a lot of soldiers and marines go crazy with the ink. It’s too bad, but with tattoos in fashion and young men in combat, it would have been hard to prevent.
Tattoos are no longer the reliable indicator that they once were.
Oh, and there’s no reason to put gangsters in danger quotes.
We know who they are.