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Reporter she hopes this gun can protect her from becoming a statistic or victim like the 49 shot and killed at pulse in orlando sunday morning. I opened up twitter and saw almost 50 of my brothers and sisters, basically, family, that was killed. Reporter it was the news of the massacre that led her and her friend to get in a car, drive to a local gun show and purchase this gun. I bought a glock 42. Its tiny. I have tiny hands. It works out well. Itll still kill someone. Thats for sure. Reporter a transaction that she says took just minutes. The speed at which i got the gun is unreal to me, but its also america to me. I have it for dire situations. I dont have it for every day situations. Reporter Research Says her fears are founded. According to fbi the Lgbt Community is the most targeted minority, making up a fifth of all hate crimes and more than half of lgbt murders are transgender women of color. That number could be higher as many of these crimes go unreported. The police oftentimes dont classify hate crimes properly. Mississippi counted one hate crime in the last reporting period. New jersey counted hundreds. I dont think there are more hate crimes in new jersey than in mississippi. I think people in new jersey do a better job could wanting them. Reporter she is not alone in wanting to protect herself from violence. Gun sales have spiked after gun shootings, columbine, and now in the wake of the orlando massacre. The latest tragedy has Gun Shop Owners reporting their gay clientele base is growing. The lgbt guns right group saw their membership more than triple days after the shooting. Their Facebook Group climbing from 1500 members to over 5,000. Its a critical question as the gun control debate reaches a boiling point. Do more guns equal more opportunities for violence . The corporate gun lobby has opposed all reasonable efforts to stop gun violence. Reporter or in the right hands, could they stop the tragedies of this magnitude from taking place . If there had been other guns inside there, the shooting could have been stopped sooner. Im going to save your second amendment. Reporter donald trump, despite breaking away from the nra and his support of barring suspected terrorist from buying assault weapons, insisted in the wake of the orlando mass shooting that loss of life could have been prevented. The night this took place, if you had guns on the other side, you wouldnt have had the tragedy you had. A solution the president wasnt buying. The notion that the answer would be to make sure that more people in a nightclub are similarly armed to the killer defies common sense. Reporter as president obama attempts to console the peoples of the victims and the wounded, the fight for the answer continues in congress. Ive had enough of the ongoing slaughter of innocence, and ive had enough of inaction this body. Reporter Senate Democrats pushing for gun control reform. Even though polls say the majority of americans see the orlando shooting as both an act of terror and a hate crime, the Gay Community says the latter often gets lost in the debate. One thing that people miss in this time of real unprecedented visibility for lgbtq people is daily Life Experiences can be places of fear. People walking down the street can get harassed. Reporter last year as millions celebrated the Landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage across the united states, marking progress and equality, retaliation was looming. As weve made progress on the lgbt rights front, theres been a tremendous backlash. Reporter george and chris zander were victims of the backlash. They dated for five years. In may 2014 they wed. We did it because we loved each other to the point where we knew we werent going to leave each other. We were soul mates. Reporter the honeymoon was cut short. After leaving a popular palm springs gay bar, they were attacked by two men. They hit me in the back of the head with a tire iron. I woke up to george screaming. Reporter chris was knocked out, and 71yearold george pushed to the ground. I just wish i could have more to help my husband. Reporter george broke his hip in two places. He underwent surgery and was expected to make a full recovery, but he died a few weeks after the attack. Its something that ill never forget. Its something that will probably haunt me for the rest of my life, every time i leave a gay bar, i cant help but to think, you know, something bad could happen. Reporter keith and james were charged with felony hate crimes. Crimes chris fears will continue to happen with alarming regularity. Its hard to bite my lip and listen to what happened and to think about how many people it affected. And how many people are going to have to go through what i went through. Because their loved ones were murdered by hate. Reporter as for brie, she says her decision to buy a gun and go public about it has come under fire. People try to chase me down and find me at work is not as enjoyable as this person thinks. Reporter she hopes shes never in a position where shes forced to pull the trigger. I might say i have this. Please dont make me use this. I dont want to, but i would. Reporter she says if it means protecting her community, she would not hesitate to fire. Ill be the first to die or try and stop. It thats my family. I dont know half them, but thats my family. All over the world, thats my family. Reporter for the survivors of that orlando attack, healing in the hospital. I was thinking i cant go like this. Reporter they say theres always another way to combat hate. Just keep showing the love and dont let people like this bring us down. Dont let them ruin our pride, our communitys pride. Reporter for nightline, im geo bonetez. Up next, shes americas sweetest, kindest comedian, but shes not afraid to stand up to bullies. Now shes starring in her own sequel. Why Ellen Degeneres says the world needs dory now more than ever. Was almost always on my mind. Thinking about what to avoid, where to go. And how to deal with my uc. To me, that was normal. Until i talked to my doctor. She told me that humira helps people like me get uc under control and keep it under control when certain medications havent worked well enough. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. Before treatment, get tested for tb. Tell your doctor if youve been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if youve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flulike symptoms or sores. 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[ cheers and applause ] reporter shes the queen of daytime, going against the grain to prove sometimes nice guys do finish first. Now something i never forget to do. Thats to dance. Reporter the talk show going into its 14th season. Still at the top of her game. With no end in sight. Reporter oprah walked away. People are afraid youre going to walk away from yours. That will be the. Case. Reporter no. I do love doing the show. I know how much people enjoy it, and i love that people enjoy it. I just have to i want to do it as long as everybody is happy. Everybody. Reporter happy, yes. Uplifting, for sure. But its not just fun and games. Ellen is not afraid to tackle controversy, to take a stand for something she feels strongly about. Reporter would you have donald trump on your show . Sure. I dont think hed do the show but i would have him on. Reporter what does he represent to you . Hes a bully. He represents a bully. He can deny that, but you look at the definition and he says i attack back. If someone attacks me, im going to attack back. Im not saying anything about republicans. Im not antirepublican. Im not antianything. I just im pro human being. I just dont like bullies. Reporter and while her wife, Portia Derossi plays a republican big wig, the real life celebrity power couple, almost eight years since their wedding is redefining the modern family. You and portia have talked publicly about not having your own kids. That family can be defined in different ways . She confuses me. Sometimes shell say, that makes me want to have a kid. Im like do you want to, shes like no. Reporter it sounds like its kind of in the hopper again . No. Now its too late. But we actually did we did go through the process of thinking about a donor and who it would be, and, you know, weve talked about it that weve really given it serious consideration. But its a good, wonderful relationship, and we both have careers, and were both busy. Reporter busy with her hit talk show and 13 years ago she was busy bringing life to a determined little blue tank fish with a shortterm memory problem named dory. Life get you down and you know what to do . Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Reporter just keep swimming, that gentle nudge from this unlikely row. I forget things instantly. It runs in my family, at least i think it does. Reporter the mission has come to symbolize, courage, perseverance. And just how far well go for family. Nemo, im coming. Dad. Nemo. Dad. Reporter more than a decade after that first block buster which earned nearly a billions, dory once again making a splash. This time headlining her own sequel, finding dory. I have a family. They dont know where i am. Lets go. Reporter in a way, shes lost, and shes looking to find her way, and im wondering if youve ever felt lost. For me, my lost was my earlier part of life, and i didnt realize i was lost until i started really doing some soul searching, and then i look back and go, oh, i didnt have anybody to help guide me and i was lost. I just found my way on my own. Take me to find him. Why didnt i think of that . Come on. You have to give that fish complete human emotions. And when you cry, i cried. I had to cry. Reporter how do you get yourself to cry . I felt the sadness and the loss and the abandonment. I have lots of sadness in me, and i think a lot of comedians do. Welcome, Ellen Degeneres. Reporter she drew on that sadness to create laughter which landed her here on her first appearance on Johnny Carsons tonight show. My girlfriend at the time was killed in a car accident. I had never lost anyone. And so suddenly. Life is special. I just thought, how is this possible that this talented, beautiful, young, healthy girl is just gone and fleas are here . Everything on this earth should have a reason, a beneficial purpose, and i feel like everything does except for fleas. I just thought. Wouldnt it be great with we could pick up a phone and ask a god thats questions. I was thinking more about fleas. They seem to have ben. No, i didnt realize how many people were employed by the flea collar industry. Reporter the first woman invited to sit on Johnny Carsons couch. She became a household name in the 90s. Be who i am. Reporter in an unprecedented and honest move, she put it all on the line. Im gay. Reporter her on screen character, coming out. And a real life parallel with this 1997 Time Magazine cover. When youre gay and youre successful in this business, your whole team says dont rock the boat. Keep it down. And i just thought, you know, whats equally as important is my career is living my life without shame. And so i just wanted to get rid of the shame. Reporter but at the time she was taking a huge risk within a year her audience walked away. Her show, cancelled. It would be three long years, she says before anyone would return her phone calls. The fear is you lose your career, it turned out i did for a while. And three years seemed like forever. It seemed like i was i didnt have any money left. I wasnt getting any jobs. I didnt have anything. Reporter and like dory, you persevered. Yeah. Reporter she didnt persevere. She thrived. Playfully joking her way into hosting the oscars, nearly breaking the internet. I met with ellen two days before the orlando massacre. A senseless, brutal event that shook our national conscious. For days i covered the horrors of the aftermath. Met with family after family, now riddled by heart ache and trauma. Then i came across this vigil with candles and flowers. In the center, a dory balloon. Someone wrote to the angel still fighting, just keep swimming. I sent these images to ellen. Who sent back this image from a young man shot four times. It says im still swimming, ellen. They spent time on the phone, and ellen told me the world needs dory right now. Perhaps now more than ever. What do you hope people keep away from the film . Just keep swimming. It applies to us in all kinds of ways. Reporter the truly remarkable power of a make believe fish. Our thanks to ellen, and, of course, finding dory is brought to you by our company, disney, opening in theaters this weekend. Why millions of americans have been escaping to youtube, up next. war drums beating fight heartburn fast. With tums chewy delights. The mouthwatering soft chew that goes to work in seconds to conquer heartburn fast. Tum tum tum tum. Chewy delights. Only from tums. Take on the unexpected with a car that could stop for you. Nissan safety shield technologies, available in the altima, sentra and maxima. If yo. Well do i haveen it all, a surprise for you. 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