Gay Americans are beginning to purchase guns to protect themselves.
“I don’t want to get beaten to death, stabbed and burnt alive,†a slight woman with long blond hair and a checked shirt says. “I want a gun to feel equal.â€
She is a member of one of the United States’ fastest-growing gun clubs, the jauntily named Pink Pistols.
Two years after the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, gay, lesbian and transgender Americans are nervous. According to the Human Rights Center (HRC), a US LGBTI advocacy group, 52 gay people were murdered in the US last year because of their sexuality, and 28 transgender people met the same fate.
In increasing numbers, they are fighting back by taking up arms.
It’s brought them into lock step with pro-gun groups that haven’t, historically, been all that welcoming of gay people.
The Pink Pistols now claim to have 45 regional divisions and 10,000 mostly LGBTI people on its books.
This group will likely be at odds with the Democratic parties platform of gun control.
