Reply #160: Well I for one am shocked with you!

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Being from such a progressive country as Canada, you should see reason for a gay person wanting to protect themselves in the U.S. Yet you here attack my partner, a lesbian for being a gun owner in the U.S. Now, I will let you into a part of Sapph's and my relationship.

My being from Australia, I do have different views than American's when it comes to guns, and gun ownership. I have only ever fired a gun once in my life, and I didn't like it.

When Sapph and I spent our first weekend together and her home, we got into a discussion about guns. She knew I was uncomfortable about guns, but also knew that I realized it wasn't the gun that killed a person, but rather the person and their mentality behind the gun.

After living with Sapph for fifteen months, she helped me to see a different light about guns, and gun owners. You see, Sapph isn't your regular NRA toting gun owner, she doesn't hunt. Sapph does not believe in killing a wild animal for the thrill of the kill.

Once I saw this side of her, I realized not all gun owners fit into the same caliber in the U.S. That those on the left view gun ownership as something different to those on the right. And that, is what you don't understand, inverglas.

Now let's come forward again to just a few days ago, when we here at DU read about a lesbian couple who received a beating for nothing more than loving one another and holding hands. On top of that, the police refused to do anything about that beating.

The government of the U.S. isn't a progressive government like your government in Canada. They do not believe in protection for minorities. Rather, they believe in protection for the majority.

Their government doesn't believe in rights for minorities, but rather rights for the majority. Do you see a pattern here?

Now let me ask you, do you believe those women would have been given a bashing had they been able to protect themselves? Let's go further, do you believe Matthew Shepherd would have been murdered had he been able to protect himself?

Right now, there are no laws in place to help protect the queer community. The queer community are getting tired of having their heads knocked in by jerks who believe they don't have a right to breath air. If the government and police aren't going to do anything about it, then they have to do something about it, because things are that bad in the U.S.

Not all of us are lucky enough to live in such a progressive nation as you, and I am just shocked by your attack on my partner, for being nothing more than a gun owner. She is no neocon. She is no repuke supporter. She is just a person who happens to believe in her right to own guns, and has been attacked for that. How sad!

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