firearms and fags

Towle Road writes with some skepticism about the gay gun rights group Pink Pistols, but seems to share a perspective that firearms are, some, well, queasy stuff to talk about anyway. I would disagree.
     This is not to ignore many straight guys' misconceptions about homos. First-off there's the mistaken idea that those of us who are "that way" are somwhow either to "sensitive" to even put our dainty fingers on a loaded gun [ignoring, for the time being, the play on what a "gun" might be, especially if loaded] or that the only reason we'd own a firearm would be to defend ourselves.
     On this topic, the sometimes erroneous Wikipedia gets it right, firearms ownership is not a "liberal versus conservative" issue.
     And, at least among urban gay folks, there seems to be the presumption that none of us like hunting, fishing, trapping or other outdoor sports [save, perhaps, the ever popular cruising, a type of hunting in its own right] just by virtue of being same-sex affectional kind of people.
     So the errant myth continues.
     Mind you, a person won't be very successful doing a google search to find hunters who happen to be gay. You'll get everything from links to porn sites, gay bashers, homo bars named "Hunters", but a serious search to find people who want to talk about hunting and firearmes of like mind, well, forget about it. Maybe, you stumble across the page about England's King Edward II, who was gay, and who hunted [but who gets a write-up that castigates him as being a screamer, so the stereotype doesn't go too far from what some folks still believe nowadays]
     But we're out there. But you're likely to find us in local hunting clubs, target ranges or second amendment rights groups. We, too, might even be members of the NRA [though I quit long ago out of anger to the garbage that national leaders toss at us, and because I got sick of listening to homophobic crap from some of the same.
     Truth be told, when I go to my local hunt club or target range, it isn't usually te sexual orientation of the participants that seems relevant at all.
     And in some respects that's too bad. Not only would men and women who aren't homo-oriented see that there's yet another commonality for some, but the mythic macho world of hunters might become more aware of the realities of gay life, not that it affects what you're going for in the woods.