{"id":11541,"date":"2009-06-11T08:01:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11541"},"modified":"2009-06-11T08:30:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T13:30:07","slug":"huffpo-diarist-for-concealed-carry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11541","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo diarist for concealed carry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christopher Barron, chairman of the board of GOProud<\/a>, an organization representing gay conservatives, writes at Huffington Post<\/a> encouraging concealed carry permits so that gays can protect themselves. <\/p>\n

This summer, the Senate will consider the Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, more commonly know as Hate Crimes legislation. Unfortunately, the bill, as currently written, will do little to actually prevent violent hate crimes from occurring. There is, however, a way to stop hate crimes before they happen: help law-abiding Americans at risk of hate crimes defend themselves from predators.<\/p>\n

While GOProud, the only national gay conservative group, doesn’t take a position on the current hate crimes legislation, we do strongly support empowering individuals to protect themselves – which is why GOProud urges the Senate to amend the current hate crimes legislation to include a provision dealing with concealed carry reciprocity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before I start in, let me make clear my position of gay gun ownership – I don’t care. Anyone with a clean police record and a clean bill of health should be able to own a gun if they want, irrespective of their sexual proclivities, race, religion, or any other clumsily-assembled group of victims anyone can configure.<\/p>\n

However, the Left doesn’t see it that way. They’re apparently all ready to give gays guns to protect themselves from “wingnuts”, but they’re afraid that some law-abiding “wingnut” will slip through the cracks and get their hands on a legally-purchased gun and get a concealed carry permit and be able to protect themselves.<\/p>\n

Here’s a sample of the comments illustrating that;
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Notice that? Since a concealed carry permit wouldn’t have saved Dr Tiller or the security guard at the Holocaust museum, there’s no real justification – besides, it might place more guns in the hands of “wingnuts”. I suspect that this von Brunn fellow possessed his firearm illegally since he’d been arrested for gun crimes before. i also suspect that Carlos Bledsoe, the Little Rock jihadist, bought his illegally as well (because no one has mentioned how he got it – if he’d bought it legally, it’d have been all over the news).<\/p>\n

I love that last line in the first comment: “It’s time we monitor the wingnuts and locked them up before they do their damage.” There’s not much chance of convincing that rocket surgeon that it’s probably unconstitutional since they seem to be convinced that only their Constitutional rights should be enforced.<\/p>\n

Not to mention that most of the commenters would support a cpncealed carry permit for gays, but not for us wingnuts. Try to tell them that probably violates the equal protection clause…I dare you. But they’ll quickly tell you that gay rights isn’t about “special rights.”<\/p>\n

Oh, and for the defenders of Janet Napolitano’s DHS report – it seems in regards to this particular commenter, at least, the report has done it’s damage even though it’s been withdrawn. It allows the Left to call us names and call for monitoring us all without repercussions. Good job, Janet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christopher Barron, chairman of the board of GOProud, an organization representing gay conservatives, writes at Huffington … HuffPo diarist for concealed carry?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,47,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-liberals-suck","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}