Gotta love the Pink Pistols

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I've been getting a bit of flack from some knuckle-dragger on my journal, but I'm still a big fan of the Pink Pistols.

Fun guys -- and, while PP is open to lesbians as well as gay guys, and friendly straights like myself, hereabouts it's almost exclusively guys. Beyond that, for obvious reasons, the Pink Pistols, just by existing, do a lot of damage to the usual stereotypes about gun owners. Firearms experience varies dramatically; some have even more than I have, and at least one of them had never owned a handgun until after he took my carry class.

And they've got a terrific sense of humor.

I was talking with one of the locals about the new Kel-Tec P3AT, which Kel-Tec is manufacturing in a lot of colors, including hot pink. I allowed as to how I thought it would be a neat thing for somebody to do a little Pink Pistols emblem, install a bunch of them on a bunch of P3ATs, and have that be the Official Pink Pistol of the Pink Pistols.

"Maybe," he said, skeptically, "but the official Pink Pistol probably ought to be a revolver. Probably better."

"Oh?"

He grinned. "Got to worry about limp-wristing."

I thought I was going to split a gut laughing.
 
I think it is funny. I also am a straight member of the pink pistols. I could not tell that joke to them, but when they have a sense of humor it is fine for them to say it:)
 
I think that, sometimes, whether ethnic/racial humor is funny or not depends on who says it. Not fair, necessarily, but true.

Orthogonally . . . I love my sister Dale, but she's very, very anti-gun. Her son, Doran, comes out to visit twice a year, usually, and while I'll discuss any issue with him -- certainly including firearms -- I also respect my sister's wishes that I not take him out to the range. Her kid, after all.

The ongoing joke, when he calls to ask about what we're going to be doing this time, is me saying something like, "Well, we'll run you through the local hookshop, the crack house, and then go off to the range."

"Gee, Uncle Joel, you're going to be in real trouble for taking me to the range."
 
I think that, sometimes, whether ethnic/racial humor is funny or not depends on who says it. Not fair, necessarily, but true.
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WHich is why it's good to be jewish or black. No matter what race or religion we poke fun at, they've all tried to kill us at some time, so they had it coming. :D
 
Limp wristing?!? :D it IS funny.

I worry about anyone or group that takes itself so seriously that they can't seee the humor in life or in themselves. Laughing (as stimulated by real humor) is good for you. I understand that it is necessary to know your audience and that they know it IS (and can take) a joke, but virtulaly all humor is at someone's expense. Humor can be used to embarass and humiliate, or to show some affinity and acceptance, it's all in the heart.

Sometimes life is a circus, and sooner or later, everybody gets to be a clown, might as well enjoy it.
 
I actively support GLBT rights, and I found that quite amusing. :) I'm sure many of my friends who fall under that category would also think the same thing.
 
It's been my experience that straight people overreact to things that gays find genuinely funny. The straight people assume it's gay-bashing because our society is so overly sensitive.

Years back I was going to send out a Christmas card for my photography studio. On it would be a photo of Santa reclining on a sofa, wearing a lace bra, panties, garters, stockings and spike heels. The tag line was "Don We Now Our Gay Apparel." I ran the idea past several people. The straight people said it was gay-bashing; the gays loved it.

And the limp-wristing comment is indeed funny. :D
 
ROFL

Of all the "oppressed groups" out there, I think the queer folk (some feminazi's excluded) have the best sense of humor.

I'm gonna use that line on someone...!!
 
ah come on...limp wristing is a behavior, not a genetic atttribute someone has no control over. Still no good to hassle anyone, but humor is humor.

Who was it on here who said that a PP member told them how much easier it was to "come out" to gun owners than to other gays about being a gun owner?

We have our own stereotypes to overcome as gun owners. Finding some unity, vice diversity, with PP is a step towards overcoming those "gun nut" stereotypes. And a foot in the door of getting support from a community that politically is often polar opposite to ours.
 
Gun owners are treated like the dirty uncle no one talks about.

The things GLBT folks and gun owners have in common are having to deal with bigotry, harassment and discrimination when someone finds out.

I wore my NRA shirt to a party once (not overtly just happened to have it on) I spent the whole evening defending the right to be a gun owner to ignorant hostile folks.
 
I wore my NRA shirt to a party once (not overtly just happened to have it on) I spent the whole evening defending the right to be a gun owner to ignorant hostile folks.
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In Texas? I thought that you guys were pretty good about that sort of thing over there.

It's always funny how the antis are so hostile, isn't it?
 
In Texas? I thought that you guys were pretty good about that sort of thing over there.
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Rich college kids and socialites :rolleyes: I did make friends with one guy who was a small bore freak and life member of the NRA.
 
Personally, I thought the limp-wristing comment was an absolute hoot.

LawDog
 
Popular culture has been changed to the extent admitting your gay is more acceptable than admitting you're a gun owner. There's nothing wrong with being gay and there's nothing wrong with being a gun owner. Now admitting you're gay immidately makes you a "minority" and socially and legally dangerous to persecute. But if you admit you're a freedom loving gun owner all of the sudden you're "crazy" and "dangerous". The PP makes people actually have to stop and think for a minute because now they're faced with a dangerous to persecute bunch of crazy and dangerous people. It must drive them nuts.

The joke was funny. Too many people worry too much and even more are offended too easily. That's their problem. I have had several good black friends over the years and all of them had a good sense of humor about their ethnicity. The ones who didn't were normally horribly racist against whites and that makes it hard to be friends with them ;)

A good recent example was my friend Esau talking about the movie "Drum Line". A woman we work with saw him watching it on his computer when we were slow and asked what it was. She said "That's funny. I've never heard of it." His response was "That's because it's a black movie." She got all defensive and said "Oh, a movie isn't ethnic. That shouldn't matter. . . " His response was "Oh, come on. It a movie about black people playing drums. I wouldn't expect you to be slightest bit interested. I mean, I didn't give a **** about 'The Piano'."

Funny, because it's true :D
 
I corresponded once with Dan Weiner, who I think was the leader of the Houston pack or founder of PP or something like that. Anyway, I had visited their website, saw a typo, alerted him, and we had a wicked laugh over it. Amazing how leaving one letter out of the word "public" can make grown men devolve into Beavis and Butthead so fast.:D "heh heh heh, it says...."

Here's my take on gay people: they are misunderstood and harassed, their rights are always in question, they cause instant controversy when mentioned, and everyone has an opinion on them regardless of facts.

Or am I talking about gun owners?

Go Pink Pistols!
 
"Who was it on here who said that a PP member told them how much easier it was to "come out" to gun owners than to other gays about being a gun owner?"

I don't know who said it here, but I've heard the same thing, separately, from at least three of the local PPs, and ditto for a carry class that I did that turned out, just by coincidence, to be lesbian-only. (Well, the students, that is; I'm, err, not exactly able to be a lesbian, having been issued other equipment.)

Orthogonally (trans: "Joel's going to digress again") In the local SF fan group, the single most virulent, knuckle-dragging hoplophobes are a few gay men, and the similarity between what they say and what the homophobes say are striking.
 
How about a new Bravo network show for the Pink Pistols titled "Dead Eye for the Gay Guy?" Given how much gun people like to accessorize, a gay gun guy ought to fit right in. It could even start a new subculture with black balaclavas and web gear replacing leather pants and studded collars. :neener:
 
How about a new Bravo network show for the Pink Pistols titled "Dead Eye for the Gay Guy?" Given how much gun people like to accessorize, a gay gun guy ought to fit right in. It could even start a new subculture with black balaclavas and web gear replacing leather pants and studded collars.
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Didn't we go through this with the "Metrotactical" thread? :D

I have a lot of fun telling people I'm a libertarian-atheist-bisexual-sadomasochist-motorcycle-freak-truck- driver-with-a-gun, and watching their heads explode... :evil: :neener:
 
I guess the validity of the joke comes down to the nuture vs. nature idea.

Are you born with it or did you chose it? In most cases, it's both. Nobody chooses to be the race they are, although they don't get their mannerisms from having been born a certain shade of tan/brown/white/purple/plaid. Some people are born genetically encoded to be more likely to become addicted to alchohol or other drugs, but I dont' think that makes it right.


Making jokes about something someone chooses to do is completely out there for the taking and if you can't laugh at yourself sometimes, you need to learn how to enjoy life. :)

-Colin
 
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