Tras dos días de deliberación Joseph Bearden, acusado de matar a Ryan Skipper en marzo del 2007, fue encontrado culpable y sentenciado a cadena perpetua, sin ser elegible para salir bajo palabra en al menos 25 años. Un segundo acusado, William Brown…

Absolutely. Everyone who can get a concealed carry license should get one. Especially gays, women and minorities. Here’s where rigid ideology sometimes gets in the way of people’s protection.

“I’m not a fan of guns, I don’t own one, but I wonder how much the tide would turn if gays had a reputation for gunning down would-be attackers.”

Caligula put it very well: “Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.”

They’ll make broad generalized statements about what a danger to society gay people are, but there AREN’T armed robberies, casual violence, nor roving GANGS of gay people who set themselves upon unsuspecting straight folks.

It’s REMARKABLE really in any criminal databases, how few violent encounters there are involving gay on straight attacks.
There are intra gay domestic violence issues, and VERY few of them result in homicide.
There are even less that involve a gay parent to such extremes.
And even less involving gay related sex crimes and children.

Sex crimes that involve gay on straight ADULTS are virtually NON EXISTENT.
However, hetero males between ages 13 on up have proven themselves to be extremely dangerous in the violent sex crimes category for females ages infancy on up.

Yet, I recently argued with a man at TH claiming to be in forensics (where and what specialty he didn’t specify), differed supposedly from his personal experience with abstract statistics.
Some of which had nothing to do with CRIME, but the CDC and HIV/AIDS infection rates.

I suspected, and I’m more sure now than ever, that his experience was flavored with GRAVITAS more than facts.

I have been wondering since carrying concealed or wearing a side arm is legal in most states, why we DON’T hear that more gay people ARE armed.

Perhaps it’s because a person who uses a firearm rightfully in their own protection isn’t a tragedy for the press to be interested in. Especially if simple wielding it averts attack and if the orientation of the person might figure in legitimate claims of self defense.

I’m not a fan of guns, I don’t own one, but I wonder how much the tide would turn if gays had a reputation for gunning down would-be attackers.

It’s just so sad.