Gays and guns

The gay gun-rights brief adds an important perspective to this argument. However, as even many liberal scholars now acknowledge, that interpretation makes little sense of the text and history of the amendment and of the Bill of Rights generally, which contains a series of individual rights.

Sign in. The gay gun-rights brief argues that the D. Under this interpretation, the amendment would not protect any individual right to bear arms outside the militia context, meaning that the government can entirely ban private gun ownership, even guns needed for self-defense in the home.

And widespread knowledge that many gays are packing might give their would-be attackers second thoughts. Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube.

The Pink Pistols ndash : They want to be ready to defend themselves from hate groups

Get help. He notes research shows three primary reasons for gun ownership: for recreation and hunting, collecting and self-defense. MAGA activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead while speaking at a university campus in Utah on Wednesday, was well known for his outspoken opinions on a number of hot-button political issues.

Gun rights are gay rights. It makes several points about the connection between firearms, gay rights, and the practical self-defense needs of gay Americans. First, the brief argues that the right to keep and bear arms is especially instrumental for a population at once subject to pervasive hate violence and inadequate police protection.

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Second, the gay gun-rights brief points out that unless the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess firearms, gay Americans are effectively disqualified from any exercise of the right. A brief filed in the case, on which I offered some counsel, argues that the law is especially harmful to gay Americans.

Log in to leave a comment. A. Gays Against Guns NY is an inclusive, direct-action group of LGBTQ+ people and their allies committed to nonviolently breaking the gun industry's chain of death: investors, manufacturers, the NRA, and politicians who block safer gun laws.

The brief joins a large coalition of groups, including the National Rifle Association, arguing for individual rights under the Second Amendment. Dale Carpenter is a law professor. We are New York-based but work with GAG chapters in other cities to ensure safety for all individuals, particularly vulnerable communities such as people of.

Combs, who is transgender, breaks through the idea that guns are just for self-defense and that those of a more liberal bent are always against gun ownership. Forgot your password? He can be reached at mailto:OutRight aol.

GLIL is a libertarian gay group that consistently defends individual rights. Politics in the United States. Pink Pistols is an international group formed a few years ago with the basic mission of advocating gun ownership and training in the proper use of firearms by gay people.

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