OK, in fairness, her actual goal is to disarm law-abiding citizens throughout her state, which doubtless includes many, many gay people.
Another anti-gun bill mandating (this time) the registration of every firearm in the state of Illinois (plus permission slips to purchase ammunition) was introduced last month by self-proclaimed LGBT activist and progressive Democrat Kelly Cassidy. Representing state district 14, Cassidy’s bill is called simply: “Firearms Registration Act.” Cassidy’s goal is simple: She wants the Illinois State Police to know where every firearm in the state is, what its registration number is, who owns it, and where they live.
So, these same progressives who are outraged because drug offenders are incarcerated for non-violent crimes want to make mere possession of an unregistered firearm a class-two felony?
The sole purpose of firearms registration is so that the state will know where all the firearms are and can confiscate them more easily. In places where gun registration is already in place, law enforcement is hard-pressed to come up with a single example of gun registration helping solve a crime.
Outlawing the private ownership of firearms is the ultimate goal of every gun control activist… and, not incidentally, every oppressive dictatorial regime.Gun registration is an essential incremental step in that direction.
Meanwhile, the deep red state of Idaho has just expanded the gun rights of its citizens. Thanks to this law, if some nutjob tries to shoot up a college campus in Idaho, there is a much better chance that he will be stopped by an armed, law-abiding citizen.
Present day national socialists/communists of the LGBT persuasion no different than their predecessors of nearly eighty years ago………
Gandhi believed that only a tyrannical government would try to deprive its citizens of their weapons. Just sayin’.
To those younger, they don’t remember the ‘bad days’ of the eighties when AIDS was still Gay Cancer, and there was a while when there was serious concern about post-midnight ‘knocks on the door’ and ‘the camps’. That’s when I bought my first handgun…
If someone wants to take me, I intend to make myself ‘very expensive’ to take. I am a Citizen, not a subject.
If there are no chapters of Pink Pistols in Illinois, gay gunright/gun owner should organize local chapters. It seems as todays elected officials ignore individuals who take a stand but pay attention to organizations. A vociferous group of Pink Pistols in Illinois could help defeat the proposal. to paraphrase Gov. Sarah Palin, a bad guy with a gun is no match for a good guy with a gun.
When I lived in L.A. I enjoyed those Sundays we went to shoot. I learned as an Army recruit, and loved firing weapons ever since.
Remember that gun control is racist in origin and purpose.
I recall with great amusement reading a story in the local paper where the Pink Pistols, an organization that advocates packing heat for self-defense, were denied a spot in the Gay Pride Parade unless they left their guns at home.
@ Ted B.: I know the idea of gay quarantine camps was brought up in England, but Thatcher flatly the notion as fascist. Mind you, even though the idea of gay quarantine camps is distasteful, more proactive quarantining and screening of gay men may have reduced the human cost of the first HIV epidemic. Still: if any person tries to strip me of my freedom without my consent, “Μολον λαβε!”
Now that there are very expensive drugs that can be taken to reduce the risk of HIV infection from unprotected sex, there are already gays out there wondering if they should be covered like Sandy Fluke’s birth control.
I’m not active right now, V, but when I do finally have a boyfriend and get intimate with him, we’ll be using condoms for everything, including oral. Except maybe frottage, there’s practically no chance of getting HIV through that. Can anybody tell me if those flavored condoms I’ve heard about for oral sex are any good?
I’m not taking any chances with his health, or my health.
Yeah leftists are leftists. Doesn’t matter if they’re black, white, hispanic, asian, gay or whatever. They’re authoritarian freaks who want to control everybody’s lives.
THIS leftist is pro-gun rights. The pro-gun rights blog posts are the only one on this site that I consistently agree with. It’s good to see pro-gun rights advocacy coming from a general gay political site. I rarely see it in the LGBT blogosphere, other than from Timothy Kincaid of Box Turtle Bulletin sometimes.