LGBTQ People Buying Guns for Self-Defense in Trump’s America

With less than two weeks for President Trump to officially retake the White House, the irrational paranoia of leftists is rising again. The LGBTQ liberals have been buying guns lately to defend themselves against some hypothetical persecution in Trump’s America.

The past Sunday (January 5), leftist daily The Philadelphia Inquirer published a story titled “The queer people who are buying guns to prepare for Trump’s America.” The telltale title is followed by some details of the paranoid purchase of guns by the LGBTQ people who have been living in a fear bubble of becoming possible targets of oppression.

The story cited the National Liberal Gun Club to report that since the election victory of President Trump on November 5, it has received thousands of training requests of which about one-fourth have come from LGBTQ people. The Delaware Valley chapter of a gay gun group Pink Pistols, another source cited in the story, also confirmed to the paper that they received “a sudden flurry of emails inquiring about gun training.”

A number of LGBTQ people, quoted in the story, shared the same reason for their recent or first-time gun purchases and training in shooting guns – safety and self-defense – exactly what the conservatives have been advocating for decades. While the leftists seem finally to get it, their brains still are wired more for delusion than reality. The LGBTQ people cited in The Inquirer expressed one or other form of political paranoia as the reason for arming themselves. The statement of a gay man Matthew Thompson from New Jersey as included in the story represents this state of mind:

“We’re not looking to arm up and storm the Capitol. We just don’t want to be put in concentration camps.”

Concentration camps? Playing the victim card is nothing new to contemporary liberals, particularly those who see it all through the lens of their identity-based ideology. They see themselves as victims if they are a minority of some sort – black or any nonwhite race, female, non-Christian, LGBTQ, and others. Instead of acknowledging that good and bad people can be in any demographic, they single out the white Christian conservatives as the threat.

This paranoia on the left has been on the rise for years, and fueled by leftist political media sources that far outnumber conservative news outlets. The Independent, a leftist paper, reported in July 2022 about “hate crimes” stats in 2020:

This year, extremist groups have stormed or shut down Pride Month events, while Republican politicians have declared homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice”, sought to ban gender transition treatments for under-18s, and embraced the idea that teaching children about LGBT+ life is a form of “grooming”.

The legitimate opposition of conservatives to the leftist agenda of promoting transgenderism in children is presented as a political campaign motivated by hate against LGBTQ people. On the contrary, the leftist media routinely ignores or twists stories of violence by LGBTQ people against others, mainly minors and women.

In the paranoid mental sphere of the left, the Second Amendment rights seem as politicized and threatening as any other fundamental rights as long as conservatives appeal to them. But when they embrace the same rights, their rationale is the old story of victimization. And they can always weave a thread to connect it to Trump.