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MI: Gay gun advocates create Pink Pistols
Josey1
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Gay gun advocates create Pink Pistols
Armed: Albert Lowe, 47, of Leslie, who is starting a Michigan chapter of the Pink Pistols, a national gay gun rights group, practices firing his licensed semi-automatic handgun.
LESLIE - Gay rights usually are seen as part of the liberal agenda, with gun rights of interest to conservatives. So gays with guns cut across the grain of America's political landscape.
That's fine with Albert Lowe, who is starting a Michigan chapter of the Pink Pistols, a gay gun-rights group with 37 chapters in the United States and at least 5,000 members.
"I'm politically incorrect, totally," the Leslie resident said.
If the group takes hold in Michigan as it has in such places as California and Tennessee, the state could have a new set of hobby target shooters and a broader, stronger gun-rights lobby.
That is the aim of Lowe, who is in the early stages of building membership, and of some traditional gun-rights groups that are eager to gain support.
"The more the merrier, in that battle," said Chuck Perricone, executive director of the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners. "As long as they're supportive of the underlying issue, which is self-defense, we welcome their support."
Lowe said his primary reason for starting a Michigan chapter was to provide a forum to "go out and have fun target shooting."
http://www.lsj.com/news/local/030826_pink_pistols_1b.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878<P>
Armed: Albert Lowe, 47, of Leslie, who is starting a Michigan chapter of the Pink Pistols, a national gay gun rights group, practices firing his licensed semi-automatic handgun.
LESLIE - Gay rights usually are seen as part of the liberal agenda, with gun rights of interest to conservatives. So gays with guns cut across the grain of America's political landscape.
That's fine with Albert Lowe, who is starting a Michigan chapter of the Pink Pistols, a gay gun-rights group with 37 chapters in the United States and at least 5,000 members.
"I'm politically incorrect, totally," the Leslie resident said.
If the group takes hold in Michigan as it has in such places as California and Tennessee, the state could have a new set of hobby target shooters and a broader, stronger gun-rights lobby.
That is the aim of Lowe, who is in the early stages of building membership, and of some traditional gun-rights groups that are eager to gain support.
"The more the merrier, in that battle," said Chuck Perricone, executive director of the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners. "As long as they're supportive of the underlying issue, which is self-defense, we welcome their support."
Lowe said his primary reason for starting a Michigan chapter was to provide a forum to "go out and have fun target shooting."
http://www.lsj.com/news/local/030826_pink_pistols_1b.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878<P>
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We need all the help we can get to fight people like the Clintons.
If they like their guns pink that is their business,I like mine either blue or stainless
Stir, stir, stir.
Merc
Real Men Question Authority
"Tolerating things you may not necessarily like is part of being free" - Larry Flynt
No joke. [}:)]
Funny, and here I thought with the new Assault Weapons Ban, and all the other scary-"removing our rights" type of legislation that congress is trying to shove down our throats, that gun-owners needed to unite in common defense of their rights. Guess I missed the part where they could afford to discriminate and pass judgement.
Typos and profanity, oh my! http://www.funky-town.org
"He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one."
- Jesus Christ in Luke 22:36
Only the strong shall survive !!!
Is the field of view narrowing? Where did your eye relief go guys? Prejudice taking over today? Why?
Look out for the black eye and bloody forehead, it may be coming your way with your attitude.
spiny
'not all who wander are lost'
"Save the Whalers, they need jobs too."
This is not the real you, just the religious you. The 'real' you recognises their right to bear arms, just not the right to live as gays - which for you is a religious issue. Pull religion out of it and what do you have? A right to bear arms.
Name another group of people who needs arms more.
I know that you are more than your religion. You care about the single mother of two, who has no religion. Right?
spiny
'not all who wander are lost'
I may not agree with their sexual...things, but since they are supporting our hobby, manufacturers, jobs, and Constitutional Rights...they have now gained some of my respect.
Mind you not 100%.....but it's more than 0%.
"He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one."
- Jesus Christ in Luke 22:36
What about the women seen as gay? Not for a minute.
spiny
'not all who wander are lost'
I have a gay friend who loves his guns. He is my friend regardless of his lifestyle. I support his right bear arms. He is welcome in my home anytime. He also knows me well enough to know that my Christian faith and belief supercedes all else. He knows this friend is not perfect. He knows this friend does not preach at him. He knows this friend would come to his aid anytime. He knows this friend loves him. That's why this friend continues to covet him as a friend staying the course that Christ laid down 2000 years ago in hopes that this friend may lead him to the Lord.
On second ammendment issues, which rate farther down the line than my personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I exclude nobody. Sorry if I misled you in my post. Yes I do care for a mother of two little ones who claims to have no religion. We all worship something; money, homes, motorcycles, guns, drugs, and so on. In some folks lives these have blinded people and robbed them of who they should really worship. My prayers are with this mother (I MEAN THAT) in hopes that those two little children will someday get a chance to meet Jesus through the acts of a Christian that might leave a lasting impression on them. Again, forgive me if I misled you in my post.
"Save the Whalers, they need jobs too."
I may not always be right, but I am never wrong. Magnum Force
You had to dig back a day or so to find this post ... are you just a troll looking ot stir up some emotion responces?
Why do you find it necessary to fly the gay flag in everybodys face?
Short straight kimberkid
? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
Oh, and for the record, I didn't start the Michigan group. Someone else did that before I took over from her. She had to drop out for personal reasons, and I took over as a favor to the founder of the national group.
But you know how newspaper reporters are.
Because I'm a South Park Fan. [:D]
Any orginized club shooting events ... how about an update of whats going on with the club?
? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
So hows the membership?
Any orginized club shooting events ... how about an update of whats going on with the club?
You going to go?[}:)][:o)]
? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
Right now we've got one forming up in Detroit, and I think another may be forming in Grand Rapids soon.