Reply With QuoteOne of their Columbus Chapter members shot with us down at Miller's last year.
A cool cat with a nice collection of firearms.
If I was gay, especially in Ohio, I know I would have my CCL in a heartbeat.
Pink Pistols advocacy group shoots down stereotypes
LinkTheir motto is "Armed gays don't get bashed."
Joani McBride explains: "A., I'm female, and, B., I'm little. You know, I'm fairly defenseless. But honey, a .357 [Magnum] beats four aces every time."
A gun aficionado for three decades, McBride knows the difference between a Colt Commander .45 ACP and the Charter Arms Bulldog .44, her two favorite handguns. And she knows how to point them if she has to -- she did once, at a knife-wielding attacker in Colorado.
McBride is 62. She is 5-foot-4, 130 pounds.
She is one of 25 members of the Wilton Manors chapter of the Pink Pistols, an international gay and lesbian gun advocacy group.
"We're as ordinary as dirt," McBride said. "We're just shooters who happen to be gay."
On a recent practice day, McBride met at the Arizona Shooting Range in Lauderdale Lakes with four other members to aim a black Glock 9-millimeter semiautomatic at an orange torso-shaped target dangled on a retractable mount 15 feet away. Ready, aim, shoot.
Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!
Pistols member Dan Dugan of Homestead was packing a Lorcin .380 semiautomatic pistol his father gave him for Christmas. It was his first time shooting. He wants to fight the perception that "gay people are wimps."
"There's a stereotype that gay people are easy targets," said Dugan, 54. "Gay people are targeted many times for no other reason than the fact that we are gay. We should be able to defend ourselves."
That's the aim of the club.
The Pink Pistols started in Boston in 2000 when founder Doug Krick read an online article calling on gay people to form "pink pistol" task forces.
In Florida in 2004, 45 hate crimes motivated by victims' ****** orientation were reported to police, constituting about 18 percent of all hate crimes, according to federal statistics.
Today, there are between 7,000 and 10,000 members in 43 Pink Pistols chapters throughout the United States and Canada, according to Gwen Patton, national spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania-based group.
"We're here to send the message that members of the ****** minorities are not valid victims for random hate and violence," said Patton, who added that not all members are gay.
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One of their Columbus Chapter members shot with us down at Miller's last year.
A cool cat with a nice collection of firearms.
If I was gay, especially in Ohio, I know I would have my CCL in a heartbeat.
Really, was I there?Originally Posted by Durandal
i'm not gay, but i am however a 5'7, about 160-170 lb. dude who can't throw a punch to save my life. So if i lived in a place that allowed concealed carry and recognized self protection (wich is all but extinct here in Norway, you more or less have to be killed yourself if it's going to be self defence) then i would defenitely carry.
Pink Pistols? sounds like a gay punk rock group
Consider that gay bashings increase the likelyhood of an assault upon a gay individual by a fair margin and the characteristics of the gay bashing crimes - firearm carry is a must. I'm not gay, but I would carry a concealed firearm even if it was against the law (which in the case of my City it is) if I lived in a society that had groups of individual roaming the streets at night, seeking lone individuals of my social standing to beat with tire irons.
If being gay
is a valid criteria in Ohio for being issued a CCL, I predict a huge upsurge in
the 'Gay' population there!
Pink Pistols are nationwide, but if being gay was the only criteria that had to be met to get your CHL here in Ohio. I would have no problem in becoming a Lesbian
No, this was a smaller get together that I decided to go to on a chance with Steve about a year ago last summer. I think we talked about it but you could not make it...
Arrh, ok, couldn't remember being there so I was just wondering
I'd say it makes the odds 100% if you're the Gay getting bashed.
IMHO the incidents of gay bashing in our society are greatly overstated by gay groups, but I still think it is a good idea for people who fear being victims of violent crimes to be packing something.
Video : http://www.lespistoletsroses.com/dyn.../le_forcat.mov
Get in shape, join a boxing club if you want to learn how to throw a punch, it's not that complicated.
You don't need to be one big muscle to throw a punch for live you just need to know where hit to hurt. A bit of common sense and fast legs are better that box or any martial art. Ofcourse every advantage you can get is usefull.
If comes to peoples making security,gun and selfdefnse laws and all kinds of gun ban idiots they shoud be dumped during weekend after dusk in some places i had "oportunity" to visit. Maybe if they taste some real life they will stop make dumb laws.
Ooooook....
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