{"id":2968,"date":"2025-11-24T16:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/the-hard-left-shooters-leading-a-gun-culture-revolution\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:18:53","slug":"the-hard-left-shooters-leading-a-gun-culture-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/the-hard-left-shooters-leading-a-gun-culture-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hard-Left Shooters Leading a Gun Culture Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Kasarda is dressed in a sandy acid-wash T-shirt and tartan cargo pants\u2014\u201cpostapocalyptic cowboy meets dad,\u201d Gun Bunny chimes in. A 51-year-old cis white man whose love of subcultures spans hacking, industrial music, and a stint as a minister with the Satanic Temple, Kasarda eschews the title of \u201cleader.\u201d On the contrary, he says he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2dTl6UBbMM0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201ca problem with authority<\/a>\u201d and \u201cflirts\u201d with the idea of anarchy. But there is no question he is largely responsible for building this alternative gun community, which he and others describe as the \u201cpunk rock outsiders of the shooting community.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-TKIUW ijVdcB\" data-testid=\"pullquote-embed\">\n<div class=\"PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-lixSTo fIFzPG\">\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cIf you want to learn about guns, ask your spicy trans girlfriends.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"paywall\">His movement started about a decade ago with a YouTube channel, InRange TV, which now has around 930,000 followers. Kasarda\u2019s videos frequently focus on firearms history he believes many conservatives in the gun world would love to forget, like slave revolts, members of a Native American tribe kicking the KKK\u2019s ass in a standoff in North Carolina in 1958, and a possibly trans midwife in Colonel George Armstrong Custer\u2019s cavalry. The channel\u2019s description says it\u2019s \u201cactively anti-racist, pro human liberation and LGBTQ+ rights,\u201d and Kasarda is a champion of \u201c2A For All,\u201d the belief that everyone, particularly minorities, should have access to arms. While that might seem like a natural stance for any gun-loving American, Kasarda\u2019s views have pissed off right-wing gun nuts so badly that there are years-long angry threads about him on <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.ar15.com\/index.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.ar15.com\/index.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ar15.com\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AR15.com<\/a> and Kiwi Farms, a forum notorious for harassing trans folks. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to talk about marginalized communities depending on firearms because we don\u2019t like the marginalized communities,\u201d Kasarda says, of how right-wingers see the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">These tensions have gotten worse under Trump 2.0. After the president was reelected, left-leaning and queer-focused firearms organizations and classes like the Liberal Gun Club and the Pink Pistols told me they were seeing major <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/23\/women-lgbtq-guns-trump\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/23\/women-lgbtq-guns-trump&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/23\/women-lgbtq-guns-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spikes in interest and attendance.<\/a> In early September, media outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/justice-department-ban-trans-gun-owners-trump-e05b489ad64b80af31e376d6d3ef7dfd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Justice Department officials were considering a gun ban for trans people. In response, one trans gun content creator <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tacticoolgf\/status\/1963666741680374154\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/tacticoolgf\/status\/1963666741680374154&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tacticoolgf\/status\/1963666741680374154\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recommended<\/a> trans Americans who\u2019d been planning to purchase firearms \u201cdo so now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">Seconds before he<\/span> was shot to death, Charlie Kirk shared a myth about trans people propagating mass shootings. An attendee at one of his Turning Point USA events asked him, \u201cDo you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?\u201d to which Kirk replied, \u201cToo many.\u201d Numbers from the nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2025\/09\/few-mass-shooters-have-been-transgender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gun Violence Archive<\/a> find that there have been five confirmed trans or nonbinary mass shooters between January 2013 and September 2025, making trans people responsible for less than 0.1 percent of the 5,748 mass shootings the group tracked in that time period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-hard-left-shooters-leading-a-gun-culture-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kasarda is dressed in a sandy acid-wash T-shirt and tartan cargo pants\u2014\u201cpostapocalyptic cowboy meets dad,\u201d Gun Bunny chimes in. A 51-year-old cis white man whose love of subcultures spans hacking, industrial music, and a stint as a minister with the Satanic Temple, Kasarda eschews the title of \u201cleader.\u201d On the contrary, he says he has [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}