This might be advice for you.

If you are any flavor of LGBT, any kind of "queer", any person who is (in any way) "different" -- it is time to look at your local gun laws. If it's legal -- get a weapon for self defense. Learn how to shoot. Learn how to use a gun SAFELY. Buy same, practice. If you are stable, calm, and not prone to drama -- get a carry permit.

Now, if you're a drinker, a drama queen, a hothead, depressed, or someone who just "happens" to find trouble wherever you go -- I'd think long and hard before even thinking of having any sort of gun. Deadly force is a serious thing -- using a gun -- even if for self defense -- is said (by those who have done it) to change your life forever.

It's just that so many anti-different-from-me crimes are being reported, so many folks are being attacked, that something has to be done to PREVENT these crimes. It does the victim no good if the perpetrators are arrested and convicted -- especially if you're DEAD or maimed for life.

As long as there are folks out there calling for punishment of, and violence toward, "different" people, as long as various different priests, pastors, imans, rabbis, etc., rail against all the various LGBT "perverts", "sodomists" -- calling down "god's wrath", hell-fire, damnation -- we will continue to have people acting out against what their FAITH sees as legitimate targets.

When they claim a CIVIL RIGHT to abuse us -- we HAVE to protect ourselves. we have to dissuade them, however we can. Our lives might well depend on it.