The former pacifist pumped a shotgun at the firing line.
Lore McSpadden never touched a gun before the Trigger Warning Queer & Trans Gun Club started this past year. Now McSpadden is among the shooters routinely yelling, “Pull!” and blasting at clay pigeons angling over a mowed field near Rochester.
Trigger Warning members are anxious about armed and organized extremists who seem increasingly emboldened. Their response has a touch of symmetry to it: They started a club to teach members how to take up arms.
“It’s a way to assert our strength,” said Jake Allen, 27, who helped form the group. “Often, queer people are thought of as being weak, as being defenseless, and I think in many ways this pushes back against that. And I want white supremacists and neo-Nazis to know that queer people are taking steps necessary to protect themselves.”
Trigger Warning members meet once a month to shoot still targets and saucer-shaped pigeons. The 18 dues-paying members are all LGBTQ, many just learning about guns.
“I identified as a pacifist really through most of my life,” said McSpadden, 37, who has attended a self-defense seminar and now owns a 20-gauge shotgun.
On a recent evening, their instructor showed novices how to pull a .22-caliber rifle snugly to their shoulders and how to aim slightly ahead of a moving target. Members cheered when shooters shattered a pigeon or hit a bull’s-eye.
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The law of intended consequences: Progressive liberals establishing common ground with gun owners and the NRA. This could actually be a good thing, but don’t look for me to be singing Broadway show tunes anytime soon.
Whoda thought that I might not be safe anymore wearing my Trump stuff to the range.
Bwahahaha ! Whatever … hope some jihadist doesn’t get you or someone mistakes you for a Trump voter.
Who knows? Gay people may actually defend themselves against muslims, and from there, watch out!
Expect an exponential increase in self inflicted wounds and accidental shootings.
“who has attended a self-defense seminar and now owns a 20-gauge shotgun”
Watch out world. We have a real warrior at the gate now. A whole seminar! Egads! I’ll attend two and Trump him!
Wait, a lifetime of shooting should do. Never mind. I’ll wait until I see the color of their eyes since the whiteness was banned or tattooed out of them.
As if the Gay Pride Parade wasn’t interesting enough. This should be fun to watch !
The 2nd Amendments applies to all Americans, now If the federal government, judiciary and the state would only comply with the Constitution.
Why do I need to purchase a permit from the State to exercise my Right?
Has my “right” turned into a privilege by the state?
Why can’t I carry and exercise my rights outside of the state I have been forced to buy a permit?
Isn’t the 2nd amendment applicable everywhere in the US?
Looks like the recoil will knock them over.
Dear Lord,
Looking at those photos attached this article, I remembered that I wanted to say something to you.
I just wanted to thank you, Lord, for blessing me with a fantastic wife (and she’s a stay-at-home-Mom, to boot) who, in conjunction with my various and sundry Fatherly and husband contributions, have raised to adulthood a son and a daughter who have brought us much pride and joy, and both of whom, not coincidentally, identify exclusively with the fishing tackle noted on their birth certificates over two decades ago.
Imagine. Four gender appropriates from one household. It can be done, folks. And did I mention that they’re all Trump supporters, too?
I’m truly blessed.
Just one teensie request? Since neither kid is married yet, could you please point them to people that will make them happy, and that the Mrs. and I will at least be able to stand?
Like I said, teensie.
You rock, God.
Wholly crap what a bunch of freaks. How do they get a gun they are mentally ill.
Severely mentally ill.
I have a tendency to judge things as incremental steps in the right or wrong direction. I’ll take this as a small step in the right direction.
It’ll make their divorces a lot quicker.
@Not Bidding
Yeah. The recoil from a .22. Haha.
Dad got me a .22 when I was 10 years old.
What POSSIBLY could go wrong???
I’d bet cash money one of them will accidently kill or wound somebody innicent before it would be used to defend themselves against the vast right wing nazi kkk conspiracy. In fact, I’d also bet that the first time one of them actually uses it not against some poor innocent bastard asking the time it will be against one of our protected classes like a black or hispanic mugger hellbent on depriving him (or her/it/whatever) of their wallet then their life. Wonder what they’ll think then.
I was gonna go out and shoot me a few queers but after seeing this I changed my mind.
All for an imagined enemy. Guns in the hands of histrionic snitpusses, I don’t see it ending well.
Just wait until the domestic violence laws start denying them of their rights, they will throw a hissy fit.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-domestic-violence-gay/domestic-violence-common-among-same-sex-partners-review-idUSKCN0HJ25X20140924
Uh, the only extremists right now run with THEM. Wait til they piss off antifa or a muslim over something stupid.
Also, I hope they got ACTUAL training. It’s not just how to pull triggers, you actually have to know when you can and cannot shoot someone, when and where you should and shouldn’t draw a gun.
OpenTheDoor – Yeah, I imagine a lot of the shooting will be done by the over emotional.
Freaks to the right of me
Freaks to the left of me
Freaks on the firing line
God I hope I’m dreaming
Considering Sinead O’Connor’s recent suicidal calls for help, I don’t think handing her a shotgun was a good idea.
Knowing what I know about sodomites, I am surprised they are able to participate in anything but a sitz bath.
Klingers – heh.
“I identified as a pacifist really through most of my life,” said McSpadden … now owns a 20-gauge shotgun.
Honey, you still are.
Her pistol identifies as a holster.
Betcha this crop of stinkweed is where the next mass murderer will come from. Its defense will be that it was triggered.
I feel sorry for the first one that starts to identify as a clay pidgeon
The only thing I see coming down the pike is that all these snowflakes go in droves to the pharmacy amd buy Ben Gay for those bruised shoulders
blockquote>Isn’t the 2nd amendment applicable everywhere in the US?
SCOTUS said it did in McDonald v. Chicago but CA, NJ, HI, et al remain unconvinced.
I’m just waiting for these Trigger Warning types start figuring out the Dems have been lying to the rest of us about gun control all these years.
Seeing what has been going on with the leftists and their protesting, I don’t believe they are mentally mature enough to use or own guns.
I only have simple questions. Where am I supposed to show up for this war? Where is the front line?
Or is this a guerilla affair and we need to ferret the enemy out of the holes they bunker in?
@ Anon
Your comment made me crack up laughing.
Someone should inform these snowflakes that they are scattering lead all over and poisoning the land. That should put them in a quandary.
Now, would ya look at that? People with a statistically proven record of a higher chance of having/acquiring a mental illness, reaching out and helping other people with a statistically proven record of a higher chance of having/acquiring a mental illness by teaching them firearms “skills”… what a fantastic idea this is. Absolute genius. Just wait until Party A finds out Party B gave him/her/it/Ze a terminal case of Ass-Herpes Simplex 10 or some shit and see what the dramatic, emotionally unstable conclusion to that story is gonna be. It’ll make for exciting television… just sayin’
Hilarious. “Queers” arming to defend themselves against all 12 known white supremacists in the entire nation who couldn’t care less about them. All the while ignoring the millions and millions of muslims that want to kill them.
My buddies always enjoyed time skeet shooting (as did a famous Kenyan-American), but I can imagine grown gay men giggling when they hear someone shout “Pull!”
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/898136859628515328
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@Irony: Good point. The whole “arm the queers” movement started last year when a leftist muslim shot-up a gay night club. Funny how quickly they pivoted and re-branded themselves as “anti-fascist” and “anti-white supremist”.
They shoot 13 gauge shotguns.
“white supremacists and neo-Nazis …”
So, they’re afraid of crazy people and socialists? They’re probably more likely to be assaulted and/or killed by another pervert than by monsters who mostly only inhabit the fevered imagination.
But … whatever trips your trigger … the more; the merrier.
2nd Amendment applies to fags and other perverts just as it does to humans.
izlamo delenda est …