More queer women are getting guns in response to MAGA violence
‘Make America Great Again’ hats sit on a table during a campaign rally for Donald Trump. (Ian Maule / AFP/ Getty)
More lesbians are getting guns in response to MAGA violence.
The Hunting Wives, starring Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman, follows a group of gun-toting, MAGA coded women in a fictional Texas town who also happen to be pretty sexually liberal.
It became available to watch in the US last July, generating criticism for being too “outrageous” and raunchy, and became available to watch in the UK last month.
Last month was marked by a major tragedy: Renee Nicole Good – a 37-year-old mother, wife and US citizen – was shot and killed in Minnesota by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, sparking conflicting narratives between local and federal lawmakers, protests and condemnation.
The queer mother’s death followed a man in St. Cloud Minnesota allegedly pointing a rifle at his lesbian neighbours and telling them to get out. As per Queerty, the incident occurred shortly after president Trump’s re-election in 2024.
In her article for Slate, published on Wednesday (11 February), Christina Cauterucci explained that Trump’s second term in office, “and amid the clear threat and increasing reality of political violence”, has led more queer people to own firearms.
Cauterucci, who is a lesbian, shared: “Some queer friends are learning to handle firearms, purchasing new weapons, or researching rifles for defense. Together, we talk through worst-case scenarios that would have seemed fantastical just months ago, imagining ourselves into a million futures that seem possible and unthinkable in equal measure.”
In 2024, following Trump’s reelection, The Guardian reported that women within the LGBTQ+ community had responded by buying guns, while a report by NPR in November 2025, based on 30 interviews, reported that more “liberals, people of colour and LGBTQ Americans say they’re buying guns out of fear”.
However, increased gun ownership within the LGBTQ+ community is being used to demonise it further, with ICE victim Alex Pretti’s gun ownership being used by the administration as an excuse for his death. Pretti’s death sparked conversation about the second amendment and right to carry concealed firearms
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