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Published on this date

In 2023

"‘You have to be dangerous back.’ Why some LGBTQ people in New Hampshire are taking up arms"

NPR / by Todd Bookman

"While Pink Pistol clubs have been around since at least 2000, there’s only limited data available on gun ownership rates among LGBTQ people. In 2020, a UCLA study found that 21.5 percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual people live in a house with a firearm, compared to 36 percent of heterosexual adults. ... In terms of partisan breakdown, a recent Pew study found that about one-in-five self-identified Democrats own a gun, compared to nearly half of Republicans."

Commemorated on this date

532: The foundation stone (cornerstone) of the Hagia Sophia is laid in Constantinople by Justinian I.

1763: Republic Day in Guyana, commemorating the start of the Berbice slave uprising.

1942: A Japanese submarine fires shells at targets on shore near Santa Barbara, California.

"Brown and the others called the police, as the Japanese shells continued to fall around them." -- from

WP / Bombardment of Ellwood