The Anti-Gun Left Has A New Enemy

 So, the LGBTQ++etc etc community is up in arms over Oregon's new gun law.  Seems they want to have a right to keep and bear arms too, for self protection.  Once you get over the irony, of course, gay people would need protection because the lifestyle is necessarily risky. As I have said, I am a live and let live kind of guy, and as long as the LGBTQ bunch is not grooming children and putting drag queen story hour in our public library, they can do what they want. So, yes, they deserve guns just as much as anyone else.

Donny Ferguson has the article at American Liberty entitled Anti-Gun Radicals Have a New Opponent as LGBTQ Community Demands RBKA:

Oregon’s radical new anti-gun law is running into opposition its leftist proponents never expected.

Members of Oregon’s gay, lesbian, transgendered and queer community tell National Public Radio they want to carry firearms to protect themselves from violence and oppose Measure 114, a successful ballot initiative restricting the number of rounds in a magazine and requiring residents to get permission from law enforcement for a permit to own a firearm.

“I just feel like if I was to go online and say like the police are terrorists or something … [the police] would be like, ‘Well, you seem like you might not be fit for this community to be armed,’” Mia Rose, a “trans person of color and former licensed firearms dealer,” tells NPR.

Rose is correct in that you cannot rightfully be stripped of your right to keep and bear arms over political speech.

Some years ago I attended a Gun Rights Policy Conference during which I met a representative of the Pink Pistols, a gay group who also carried concealed firearms for protection. Most gay and lesbian people support the Left and do not stray too far from the Left's agenda. That is too bad, because the Bill of Rights is written for every individual American. The Constitutional framework and the Bill of Rights is actually the center of American Politics. Even criminals are entitled to avail themselves of the Bill of Rights. What they are not entitled to is to get a free pass for performing criminal acts. People who commit criminal acts including assault need to realize that doing so necessarily risks their own lives as well as the lives of others.  After all, would one person come up to a total stranger and sucker punch him if he thought he might be shot?