Gun sales surge among gays, lesbians after Orlando shooting

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4. Good. Minorities have too long been conditioned to assume self defense is only for straight white

males for way too long. I know it's mostly a vestige of that mindset from the not too distant past when the right to bear arms was denied or at a minimum made harder for minorities, but now it's available to all and needs to be exercised by all who want to. These self imposed mental barriers where we don't seek to exercise a right due to race, sex, orientation or anything else and just assume that's only for straight white people need to be eradicated.

There is a map of instructors willing to take LGBT folks out and teach them, most volunteering to donut for free, that has gone from just an idea to over 500 listings across the nation in less than three days and still growing.