I ' m a queer person who lives in with queer and trans roomates and I purchased a gun last week . I asked my roomates before I did so if they would be OK with having a gun in the house , and neither of them objected . All of the conversations I ' ve been having about the gun with my social activist friends have been very interesting all of us have been calling for commonsense gun legislation all year , and everyone also seems to think it ' s reasonable that I would want to carry a gun . It ' s one thing to want our society to get away from having a bunch of very dangerous and armed people everywhere but a completely different thing to want to have agency , today , in a situation where you know that your enemies are armed and willing to kill you because of what and who you are .