Here’s a short video from the Washington Examiner discussing the radical gay and trans group, Armed Queers, who are now being investigated by the FBI for possible connections to Tyler Robinson and the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I think the Armed Queers of SLC – which stands for ‘Salt Lake City’ may be the same group I discussed in a previous article, where I called them ‘Queer Resistance’ following an image on the EDI Jester’s video about them. Armed Queers are a radical Marxist group combining the militant defence of gays and trans people with revolutionary politics. They practice on gun ranges, and have been to Cuba to study how socialism works there. They’re also part of a network calling for the country to be taken off the US black list. They have also been associated with the Pink Pistols, a gay gun organisation. The FBI is also investigating the possibility that they have links to other armed, left-wing militant organisations, such as the John Brown Gun Club,, which carried out an armed raid on an ICE facility.
This is all extremely bizarre from a British perspective. I don’t think any other country in the world except America would tolerate private, armed paramilitary groups of either the left or the right. From what I gather, Britain passed its laws severely curtailing gun ownership in the UK in the 1920s due to fears of Communist revolution following the Russian revolution. I think most European countries have similar legislation, especially following the wave of terrorism across Britain, Northern Ireland, France, Germany and Italy in the ’60s and 70s, and in Britain and Ulster up to the Good Friday Agreement in the ’90s.
Back in the 1970s, the very idea of a militant, armed gay group was a joke. One of the jokes by the Two Ronnies from that decade went ‘News Flash. Today a sailor at Portsmouth had his wrist slapped. Police are hunting a hitman for Gay Lib.’ Now it’s become real, partly due to Herbert Marcuse’s recommendation that Communists, now that the working class were no longer interested in it, should appeal instead to the people of the ghetto – Blacks, gays and women. Regarding the Pink Pistols, I can understand why some gays would wish to come together and learn to shoot for self-defence. Although homosexuality is legal under federal law, I’ve been told by American friends that many states still retain legislation outlawing it. And despite considerable progress in making gays viewed as respectable members of society, there’s still considerable hatred of them in some quarters. As there probably is over here. But armed Communist revolutionary groups go far beyond self-protection. I’ve never heard of the John Brown Gun Club, which makes me wonder just how many other armed radical left groups there are out there running around in the Land of the Free.
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