… to invite your gay, lesbian, bi-, and trans- friends to the range.<\/p>\n
Or tell them about The Pink Pistols<\/a> if they live near a chapter or someplace where a chapter could start up.<\/p>\n UPDATE: Or better yet, from Brad R. in comments sign up to give free training<\/a>.<\/p>\n —–<\/p>\n This weekend’s foul murderer seems almost custom-designed to fit everybody’s hysteria agenda. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He used scary guns for the hoplophobes. He did the “Allahu Akbar” routine for the conservatives. He hated gays and women and probably about half a dozen other target groups. For those of us who distrust government, he spent years coming to the attention of government agencies, all of whom found no problem with him and turned him loose to buy all the guns and do all the murder he cared to do.<\/p>\n But I have to admit I’m coming down very near where Joel’s headed<\/a> on the larger issue of these pestilential jihadis, both freelance and affiliated with whatever group — Sunni, Shiite, Full-of-Sh**te, Wahabi, Wasabi, Whathaveyou. <\/p>\n Yes, I agree with Joel that collectivism is a great evil. But I’ve asked the question before: If there are supposedly all these millions of “moderate” and peaceable Muslims around the world, and they’ve been exclaiming in horror over terrorism since 2001 or earlier, where are the huge, well-funded Muslim anti-terrorist organizations and movements? Where are the communitywide efforts to turn disaffected young men and women toward a more productive course? Where’s all the media-touted “moderation”?<\/p>\n Citing sympathetic Twitter chatter from Muslims after every jihadi atrocity in the U.S. isn’t enough. Those tweets take less effort than putting a teddy bear on a streetside memorial — and are about as meaningful.<\/p>\n No, I am not<\/i> saying that every individual Muslim is responsible for, or has an obligation to do anything about, terrorism. Not even close. I am<\/i> saying that if those millions of anti-terrorist moderate Muslims the media is always going on about actually existed, some of them would, by now, have formed powerful anti-terror organizations and would be actively making terrorism uncool and unpopular with the young jerks who carry it out. <\/p>\n Alas, the evidence is, scarily, that among the Muslim communities of the West, those moderates are somewhere between a minority and a downright delusion on the part of journalists. Survey after survey has shown that millions of religionists who don’t actively go out and blast gays or cartoonists or atheist bloggers or whoever offends them the most this week are hardly “moderate.”<\/p>\n In a 2015 poll, 20% of U.S. Muslim responding said violence was justified<\/a> to impose sharia law on the U.S. And 39% said they should be exempt from U.S. courts, presumably because sharia should prevail. (Of course, you and I might wish the same as that 39%, but not for quite the same reason.)<\/p>\n Moderate? I don’t think so.<\/p>\n