And this is consistent across the gamut of right-wing rhetoric, including things like the racist/anti-Semitic "white replacement" theory that they've recently mainstreamed. They are increasingly rhetorically portraying things like the existence of LGBTQ people and non-white immigration as quite literally existential threats, and this kind of treatment logically can only lead to incidents like this. When you are faced with an imminent threat of death, violent resistance is the only way to save your life, after all.
And like all those things they're too cowardly to even own their arguments. They're doubling down on the violent dehumanization here and denying they're doing it.
They are claiming they never called
gay people groomers. No, they claim they call people who are grooming groomers.
What do they call grooming? Public participation by non-straight people. Existing as a trans gender person. Acknowledging the existence of non-straight people. 'We aren't calling you a groomer for being gay, we're calling you a groomer for existing while gay,' is such the pathetic **** take.
The drag show was of course what people who are 'honestly, really, double sure not defending the shooter' say was 'grooming'. I don't know what reason they have for thinking drag is inherently about sexual activity, but it just isn't. 'What do you mean it's not sexual? Why else would those gays give me these feelings?' Why would anyone seriously believe the idea that the mainstream GOP is calling a wide swath of society literal child sex trafficking rapists who are coming for YOUR child, but NOT advocating for violence?
For 'good' examples of this look at the vile things Tim Pool is saying, also known as 'the quiet part out loud'.
Yeah, but I'm sure you got my point: these weren't a pair of ninjas or Navy SEALS fresh from unarmed combat training who wandered by. It just takes balls of steel, even if obese or rocking high heels. Respect.
I mean, I know what you're saying, but the 'obese' guy is a retired
major from the Army, with three tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan with two Bronze Stars.
To point out the balls on these two though, Fierro had to rush across half the bar to get up behind the shooter, who was heading to the patio a lot of people had escaped to. Fierro is six foot and 300 lbs, but the shooter is apparently at least several inches taller and weighing at least as much. Fierro grabbed the drag handle on the man's extensive body armor and dragged him down. Again, the very large man holding an AR pattern rifle. The shooter pulled out a handgun, which Fierro then took from him, and started pommeling him in the face with it, because the man was armored everywhere else. He kept doing that until police arrived.
There is a reason the shooter isn't in jail yet; he can't be released from the hospital because of how badly his face and head were beaten in.
So, yeah, Fierro and the woman who heel stomped the shooter (and the unidentified person who grabbed the rifle and pulled it away from reach), have steel bits. Yeah, it's what was needed. But Fierro was also an uncommon badass already with a lot of training.
