Fox News host thinks LGBTQ+ Americans buying guns ahead of Trump’s second term is a ‘great idea’

Fox News host Jesse Watters has questioned why more LGBTQ+ Americans appear to be joining gun associations.

Despite being in favour of the Second Amendment, which gives Americans the right to bear arms, Watters said on his show on Tuesday (7 January) that he wasn’t happy about “hard-left, gay activists” purchasing firearms.

His comments come after an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer alleged that membership in queer and leftist gun clubs had risen since Donald Trump won the presidential election.

There has been a surge in membership of groups such as the Socialist Rifle Association, a leftist alternative to the conservative National Rifle Association, as well as Pink Pistols, an LGBTQ+ gun association with the slogan “Armed Gays Don’t Get Bashed.”

But Watters said LGBTQ+ Americans shouldn’t be buying rifles

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