By The Associate Press
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — 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.”
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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