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Texas

vercetti2021

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4. This is why I carry

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Thu Sep 21, 2023, 02:10 PM

Sep 2023

Being a trans woman in Texas nowadays is a walking bullseye on your back. Least I feel safe knowing I have a last resort option in case one asshole decides to go murder happy on me

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Extremists have turned Texas into a hotbed for hate, report finds [View all] douglas9 Sep 2023 OP

Eagerly awaiting the report revealing that water is wet... regnaD kciN Sep 2023 #1

You beat me to it with the "water is wet" reference. (nt) Paladin Sep 2023 #8

Last year, some anti-semitic group was leaving flyers on driveways promising retribution against Lonestarblue Sep 2023 #2

I found white power stickers at The Quarry in S.A. callous taoboy Sep 2023 #3

This is why I carry vercetti2021 Sep 2023 #4

I'm so ashamed that you are correct. When I moved to this state in 1976 it was a different Comfortably_Numb Sep 2023 #6

Between 1968 and 1980, I helped protect the United States from those barbarians to the east Wonder Why Sep 2023 #5

the Southern Poverty Law institute has long labeled texas this. more over... Javaman Sep 2023 #7

My insurrectionist cousin is moving here from California to Llano to open a brewery. czarjak Oct 2023 #9