But LGBT groups are moving in the other direction, and many are now considering joining efforts to push for new gun-control measures. Jo Michael, legislative manager at Equality California, said Sunday’s events had moved the LGBT community, and Michael’s organization would look more closely at supporting gun control legislation at the state and federal level.“Equality California has been involved with legislation around hate crimes, making sure that legislation is implemented,” Michael said. “What is going to be different moving forward is being directly involved in supporting legislation is specifically about gun control.”

Source: LGBT groups to Trump: No thanks – POLITICO

In a sense, I am not surprised that LGBT orgs are Pavlovian lock-stepping with Liberal Pols for Gun Control. My guess is that they owe the Liberal camp a big bill regarding Gay Marriage. But is the price worth it? We are talking about paying that bill with blood, because in case they have not gotten the message yet, the LGBT community was tagged as Soft Target last Sunday, easy pickings.

Shannon Minter, legal director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, hopes that the tragedy will awaken the LGBT community.

“This is a moment that should be for all of a moment of electrifying clarity for something that has not been sufficiently acknowledged,” Minter said. “I think recognizing that gun control is so central to achieving basic equality in our country is a message that we haven’t put forth strongly enough.”

“I think that something our movement has learned over the years is to let the experts lead, so we will take our cues from the leaders of the gun control movement,” Mark Snyder from Equality Federation told POLITICO.

When you are trying to achieve equality, the idea is to raise the standard of living and safety, not bringing everybody down to where  determined and strong enemies will have the advantage of dominating vast numbers of people.

Institutional inertia is a hard thing to change. At best, we will see some in the LGBT community deciding it is time to do something and stop being a victim. But I also fear that it will be done secretly for fear of being publicly shamed by those less enlightened. The Gaystapo is a real and they have no mercy.

I do hope that the lessons from the Pulse Massacre are not sacrificed in the altar of political cronyism.

I am still laughing…

The “mansplaining” has got to stop. Every single comment I (or anyone else) has made about the assault weapon used in Orlando to kill or maim 103 people is being met by a dude who feels the need to “mansplain” to me what an assault weapon is. See this photo? That’s me in the center, briefing a squad of military police soldiers. Kiss my a$$. I know that weapon inside and out. It has no place in my home. You want to get your jollies from firing a weapon like that? Then do what I did, AND VOLUNTEER TO SERVE IN THE ARMY. I’m no longer in the Army, and I no longer need to have this kind of weapon handy for any reason.

Dear Caro:

Actually it is a blessing for your family that you don’t have the M-16 anymore. It seems you fell asleep when the Army was teaching you the basics of Gun Safety and specifically the part that goes something like “keep the fucking muzzle of the rifle away from your body, you dumb jackass!”  There is no doubt in my mind that your lack of firearms safety would have resulted in a tragedy.

And I am not going to delve into the fact that you cannot tell the difference between semi-automatic and automatic weapons.

So much stupid concentrated in one post.

May you have  blessed and safe life.

Love.

The Gunsplainers.

Amarillo police say an armed Walmart employee likely upset for being passed over for a promotion took two people hostage before being shot and killed by officers inside the store near Interstate 27 and Georgia Street. The man was identified by police as Mohammad Moghaddam, 54. The incident began around 11:06 a.m. and was over by 12:22 p.m.Both hostages are safe. According to police, the incident began with one or two gunshots believed to be fired into the ceiling by the checkout area. Moghaddam then took a manager and another employee hostage in a management area of the store

Source: Walmart employee killed by police after taking hostages, gunshots | Amarillo Globe-News

Nothing to see here…move along.

So low that I think the governor should call for a state of emergency and the attorney general should start an investigation.

The recoil bruised my shoulder. The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary case of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.

Source: Firing an AR-15 is horrifying, dangerous and very very loud – NY Daily News

I checked Mr. Kintzman’s Tweeter feed and this was the first thing that popped:

This video is your answer:

A 13-year-old girl is manlier than you, Mr. Kuntzman. You don’t even qualify to dress up Barbie dolls.

That is pretty much the take that Maybelline-Encrusted Cooper lays on Pam Bondi. This is the kind of hyperbolic discourse that makes people disconnect their ears to any significant conversation. Did Pam Bondi opposed Gay Marriage in Florida? Yes. Equating her stance to the Orlando Massacre? Only a Ratings-Hungry imbecile could come up with that distortion of logic.

Is it unexpected? No. I have documented many examples within the Gun Control community wishing death to those in the Second Amendment side. The concept of your life meaning nothing because you happen to spouse a different political view is dogma for what seem to be a growing number of  unhinged Liberals, so they have no problem accusing the rest of the world of the same. Apparently Anderson Cooper agrees and projects.

I’ve been working on a longer post about the massive disinformation response to the Orlando shooting and have come to a conclusion that needs to be said sooner than later.

I have watched in awe as the media has gone off the rails to explain how a shooter who pledged allegiance to ISIS and was yelling “Allah Akbar” while pulling the trigger wasn’t motivated by Islam, but was instead motivated by Islamophobia, toxic masculinity, and the NRA.

We are about to get hit by a perfect shit storm of anti-gun, social justice, and liberal intolerance, and will have to be work hard to make sure our rights survive it.

There is one insidious theme that has run through all the Op-Eds I’ve forced myself to read in a progressive coprophagic gavage, is this:

The NRA/GOP/Conservatives will not “do something” in response to the Orlando shooting to prevent the next shooting reinstate the AWB/impose restrictive gun control because we are a bunch of intolerant *Christian* homophobes and we range from not caring about to being overwhelmed with joy that more than 100 gay men and women were injured or killed early Sunday morning.

We are going to get beat over the head by a one-two punch combo of anti-gun emotional platitudes and accusations of anti-homosexual/transgender bigotry.  The murder of 50 young gay men and women is exactly the type of scenario to embolden the Social Justice Warriors of Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr to go for blood.

We have seen this initial scenes from Black Hawk Down where the starving people are trying to get food from the Red Cross trucks only to be held back at gunpoint by warlords who steal the food.  Something similar happened today in a southern barrio of Caracas called La Vega, but with less Hollywood grandiosity.

Food has gotten scarce in Venezuela, so much so that people are either rummaging through garbage dumps or waiting for food trucks to deliver at the local shops and bodegas to either be the ones getting the few items or at worst case, loot the trucks when desperation sets in.

But in La Vega last week, the local “Colectivo” (Civilian goons armed by the government) showed up, murdered one of the truck drivers and proceeded to keep the food for themselves. People got mad but rather than facing armed criminals, they took it out on the shops. Police and National Guard got called to the scene and promptly dispersed the crowd till only the Colectivos remained.

Then the shooting began. The Colectivo apparently took affront that tear gas was used against them and replied with gunfire. A Police Officer and a National Guardsman were wounded and no casualties were reported on the other side. And if you are wondering why two groups in the same side of the political spectrum decided to shoot at each other, the answer is simple: The Chavez-Founded Colectivos  have become an independent monster of its own, ignoring most instructions from the government and creating their own little kingdoms in cities across the nation. They are well equipped, many have associated with local criminal gangs and are very feared by the locals who must submit to their wishes and strong-arm tactics.

Starvation is an effective crow-control weapon. The Maduro Government has stopped international relief shipments of both food and medicines and although it is difficult to be sure because of the tight control of the media, I would not be surprised if those supplies are already in the pantries of those adept to the government. Hospitals are already reporting cases of infant deaths by malnutrition to be added to those cases of kids and adults that have died for lack of proper medications.  So, if the government sees no problem stealing supplies for the citizens, the Colectivos also see no problem doing the same. And in the case of La Vega, it is the people who get caught between two gangs of future genocides without the possibility of defending themselves. Venezuela will be another sad case where Gun control, registration and confiscation is leading to Democide.

When you surrender your instruments of self-defense, you are condemned to dance to the tune of those who have the guns.