LGBTQ liberals start arming themselves over baseless fear of being placed in concentration camps: report

Gay and transgender liberals around the country are arming themselves over perceived concerns they’ll be rounded up and placed in “concentration camps” under a second Trump administration, according to a report.The Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday profiled several members of the emerging gun-toting left, who belong to groups with names like the Liberal Gun Club, the Socialist Rifle Association and Pink Pistols.Although precise figures regarding LGBTQ gun ownership are tough to ascertain given the small cohort, the Liberal Gun Club told the outlet that it’s received “thousands” of firearms training requests since the election — more than in all of 2023 combined — and that about a quarter of them were from those in the LGBTQ community.“Three months before the election, that’s when the alarm bells started to ring,” said a 24-year-old trans woman who recently decided to purchase a gun, identified by the outlet only as “A.”“Minorities that are armed are more difficult to legally oppress,” she said, expressing relief that she’d be ready to fight back “in the event of hate crimes or terrorist attacks.”The Philadelphia chapter of the Socialist Rifle Association — a left-wing take on the National Rifle Association — told the outlet it’s seen a “surge” of paid memberships, and that its gun safety classes have been filling up so fast it had to add more.The Delaware Valley chapter of gay gun group Pink Pistols, which uses the slogan “Armed Gays Don’t Get Bashed,” similarly told the paper they’ve been inundated with inquiries from people seeking firearms training.The group was founded in 2000 after an article was published in Salon by writer Jonathan Rauch in which he said “homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them.”Wake Forest University sociology professor David Yamane — author of “Gun Curious” — told the Inquirer that a cultural shift...