The
group, which advocates for gay Americans to carry firearms, just won a
major victory on Tuesday: a federal judge in Washington halted
enforcement of a portion of the city’s strict gun law, ordering
Washington DC police to stop requiring residents to demonstrate they
have “a good reason to fear injury,” which he ruled places “an
unconstitutional burden” on citizens’ right to bear arms.
The Group, which nobody seems to spend five minutes looking for on google, is named the Pink Pistols. Remember the goddamn name.
Good, I don’t care who you sleep with or what color you are we all need to fight for and exercise our Constitutional rights. Let’s also put an end to the anti-gun crowds “only white guys” like guns myth.
I’ve heard a lot about Pink Pistols. They’re doing good stuff
Do lgbt people in the US who own guns even have a lower chance of being killed/injured by hate crimes when you adjust for wealth, age, location, gender, etc. though? I don’t think the people who are in the most danger (young teenagers who ran away from their home or were disowned by their parents, sex workers in violent areas, extremely poor people) would have as much access to weapons (or other kinds of safety/self defense tools and training, for that matter) as everyone else. So if a “guns make you safer” effect actually appears, it might just be cofounding.
I would research this myself if I weren’t too sick and tired to put mental effort into anything right now. Maybe, little followers, if you have been very good, you will get heated-up leftover effortposts and chocolate milk for breakfast!
#armthegaysiffitsactuallyhelpingthem
Nobody has a clue, all the data is confounded to hell, but it makes a staggering amount of sense. Even if one were to assume that increases in concealed carry increase gun crime in general, I’d be highly surprised if a drastic specific increase in concealed carry by vulnerable populations wouldn’t reduce the risk of hate crimes, effectively turning it into a PD/tragedy-of-the-commons type situation. (And there would be a predictable increase in gun suicides because being lgbtq tends to suck for many people, thus offsetting the effect a bit.)
Probably the best test of this would be to choose some cities in random, provide firearms, training and concealed carry permits to as many eligible lgbtq volunteers as possible (especially TWoC) and publicize the fuck out of it. Considering the opportunistic and non-gainful nature of bashing attacks, I don’t think the absolute number of gun carriers would need to be that great as long as prospective bashers had a reasonable doubt that their victims might be armed. (My prediction would be that such a program would have a statistically significant effect compared to controls, mostly from the PR side of trying to make as many haters as possible aware that some lgbtq people are packing and thus none are safe to mess with. Especially if the people who get guns were selected to be externally indistinguishable from the general lgbtq population but with significantly lower suicidality, impulsivity etc. to reduce the harms increased gun ownership would cause.)
my fellow US citizens please please, we’ve got to do something about the gun violence in our country. there’s no reason someone should be able to just go buy an assault rifle or an automatic firearm of any kind. these weapons are designed to kill people, why are they sold in stores as if they have any other purpose? we have big elections coming up in November and we have to put pressure on our politicians to do something about our gun laws, to fight back against the NRA and stand up for the victims of all these senseless killings. we have to stop this happening, way too many innocent people have died because our laws favor big gun manufacturers instead of the safety of our citizens.
I’m all for this, but banning assault rifles doesn’t do much for all the shooting victims who don’t make front-page news.
Trying to ban handguns is political suicide, but maybe we could try an anti-gun campaign that specifically works with America’s cultural mythology around guns?
“John Wayne is dead, he is not coming back, you are not John Wayne and never will be, put down the damn gun.”
Ah yes, the Guns, the guns that sprout limbs and walk into gay clubs and start shooting people entirely on their own,
And while we’re at it, “there’s no reason someone should be able to just go buy an assault rifle or an automatic firearm of any kind” congratulations, that is also illegal in all US states. Literally zero automatic weapons are available in American gun stores unless you’re buying for police/military use.
Every time I see a progressive misusing gun terminology it makes me want to head to a range just to bond with people who know their shit, and I’m supposedly way to the left of all those progressives. I mean, “assault weapon” is basically the “sex change operation” of gun politics and if one is pro-accurate-terminology anti-misleading-bullshit one should be consistent with that.
(also, mass shootings are anomalies and should never ever be used as the basis of laws; if you want to legislate (recommendation: maybe count to ten and reconsider whenever you get the urge; legislating is a bad habit people should try to drop), at least do it based on the actual number of annual gun homicides and suicides instead of a single goddamn individual fucking event kthxbye)
(also, mass shootings still below slippery bathtubs as a public health hazard; maybe consider doing something about them bathtubs first if you really feel the need to save lives instead of just signaling progressive virtue)
Your daily allotment of Rojava spam from promethea
There’s just something incredibly æsthetic in the way…
…that when you ask the question “how do we put an end to the patriarchy”…
…while western feminists are often like “let’s establish massive amounts of bureaus and regulations and shit, and when they don’t achieve the intended aims we’ll just increase them”…
…Rojava is like “we don’t know, but giving all women* assault rifles might be a good start”
It’s like, regardless of what one thinks of Rojava’s solution (I think it’s at the very least among the best ones such large-scale organizings of people have actually managed to attempt), one must give credit to the fact that they certainly look like they are genuinely trying to solve it.
“I didn’t start publishing Pennsylvania’s Orange Street News so that people would think I’m cute. I want to get the truth to people, even if it makes grownups mad,” says 9-year-old Hilde Kate Lysiak, publisher of and reporter for the Orange Street News.
After reporting on a suspected homicide in Selinsgrove, Pa., Hilde was harassed by “disgusted” adults commenting on her site, saying her time would be better spent at tea parties and playing with dolls.
This is very important if you’re ever in a situation similar this pretend that you’re dead don’t scream and @#!*%
my dad told us this if someone shoots up our school
SUPER IMPORTANT
BEST TIP
PLEASE REMEMBER THIS
not even a joke we learned this in Police Explorers and put it on your clothing as well but go quickly because you don’t know where the person is.
This is what school children in America are taught. That is so wrong on so many fucking levels and there are still people who believe gun control in any form is a bad thing.
let me reiterate SCHOOL CHILDREN IN A SUPPOSEDLY FIRST WORLD COUNTRY ARE TAUGHT THE SAME THINGS AS PEOPLE IN ACTIVE WAR ZONES BECAUSE THE THREAT OF BEING KILLED IN A SHOOTING IS SO HIGH.
the bit in caps here is making me rethink my stance on gun control
shit
I’m reblogging this because as my follower count goes up, the odds of this saving a life do too.
My elementary school had drills telling us what to do in such an emergency. This is exactly what they told us. AND NOW FOR A FACT: IN CALIFORNIA YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REGISTER A SHOTGUN!
I live in America, and I was only taught to hide and be quiet. I had to learn this on Tumblr. If one more person says that technology is ruining children, they best shut the hell up because this could be saving lives
We had more lockdown drills at school than we did fire drills…
Being afraid of a thing is different than the thing actually being dangerous.
School shootings are rare. Want to know what the most common cause of death is for teenagers? Car accidents. (Fix public transit enough that you can make more stringent requirements for drivers’ licenses and/or increase driver liability for accidents, please.)
“Look! All these people are freaking out and giving out advice for dealing with a problem!” does not mean that the problem is actually a big deal. If I start handing out flyers on how to handle superintelligent bioengineered rats, do they become a threat?
The First Rule of Outfreaking: the degree to which people get upset about something reflects the degree to which a single instance of it is spectacular, not the actual risk. Nuclear accidents, airplane crashes and school shootings are rare but get a fuckload of media attention so everyone spends ridiculous amounts of time and effort on them, while particulate pollution, car crashes and everyday bullying are far bigger problems but nobody gives a proportionate shit because they don’t make headlines. I’d be angry but I don’t have any right to expect better from mere humans.
