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Justice Department leadership is prepared to use its rule-making authority to declare transgender people as mentally ill and deprive them of their Second Amendment right to possess firearms, according to two Justice officials who shared internal discussions with CNN.
Deliberations at the highest levels of the DOJ follow the recent mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, an attack police say was carried out by a 23-year-old former student at the church’s school who may have been a transgender person or a de-transitioned individual. Two children were killed in the attack, and 21 others were injured.
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Labelling the groups they hate as mentally defective is very much a Nazi move.
We can’t have mentally ill people breeding, we better start issuing pregnancy licenses that everyone has to apply for.
Weird that only certain groups are getting the licenses.
Forced Idiocracy.
The right is about to learn the very important lesson that support of gun control does not necessarily imply a lack of gun ownership.
Too bad they’re likely to learn the wrong lesson.
Operation Blazing Sword is a grass-roots organization dedicated to helping everyone, but especially queer people, become responsible firearm owners.
Haven’t heard of that. But another option is the SRA (socialist rifle association). Its a nationwide version of the NRA for socialist/leftists. They are not activist but strictly an organization for learning firearm safety and use. Highly recommend from my experience with my local SRA.
Our membership has exploded since the election. And obviously a lot of our members are from the queer community.
I am not into guns but I am into that group name! “Activate interlock! Dynatherms are connected! Infrashells are go! Let’s go!”
The right has never supported gun ownership for groups they consider outside “American identity” just look at Reagan’s actions while governor.
White People: “guns are for everyone! That’s why there is a second amendment. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.”
Black Panthers: "oh ok carries unloaded guns’
White People: “wait actually now there are limits”
Where’s the “shall not be infringed” crowd?
Standing right here. I’d also like to know what part of due process this is, exactly.
Any excuse to kill Americans makes this administration giddy.
Trump once said that his closest advisor, Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller, told him that he wanted to reduce the population of the US to 100 million people, who looked like him (God forbid).
That would be a decrease of about 70%. It would be interesting to hear his explanation as to how he intends to accomplish that objective.
Taking their guns is only the first step against transfolk. Once they’re declared mentally unwell they’ll start locking them up and forcing treatment on them.
As supported by the previous executive order that authorizes institutionalization of homeless and mentally ill people.
I am so disgusted by this wretched administration.
They’re going to expand civil commitment. “Trump derangement syndrome” as a diagnosable illness.
“treatment”
The treatment is at a concentration camp.
So also reduced sentences on all crimes under the insanity defense? Or just the parts that fits your agenda?
It’s the second one 🙃
Best we can do is reduced process.
Republicans are coming for your guns. This is a test run on Heller.
Any clear-thinking individual has always recognized that the party that will be the first to restrict gun ownership will be the MAGAs.
Dems have engaged in or attempted a lot of gun control historically. Notably the assault weapons ban. That was just plain old fashion racism.
This trump law’s fascism is in how they want to generate the ban; they want to label being trans (a minority) as a mental illness.
Let’s simplify this: United States politicians are either coming for your guns are actively not helping you when other politicians come for your guns. Same shit to me but maybe others prefer the semantics.
And this fixes the economy how? And this releases the Epstein files how? And this helps climate change how? And this stops the war in Ukraine how? And this stops the genocide in Gaza how?
As a gun owner, this is my promise for America
If you come for my guns, we will have a gun fight, don’t worry I know I’ll lose, but I won’t be alive when you put dirty hands on my guns.
The problem is, everyone has this fantasy storyboard in their heads of the cops showing up going door-to-door with their MP5s and riot shields in a nice neat line loudly announcing their intentions. That is absolutely not how gun confiscation is going to work.
Instead, once they’ve declared that trans people or Democrats or whoever else are now blanket banned from owning guns, any time you interact with the police, let’s just say during a (probably spurious) traffic stop, your name will come up on their little computer as a “person prohibited” and they’ll put you in handcuffs and stuff you in the back of a police car right then. And then go break into your house and toss it looking for guns when you’re not there to stop them. There will be no fight. You’ll already be under arrest for something else. They’ll find (or plant) whatever they want, and charge you with an additional nine hundred crimes that are all rewordings of the same thing, and put you in jail. When they come up to you they’re not going to be talking about guns, they’re going to start off with some low-grade bullshit you think you can talk yourself out of but use that as a pretext to lock you up for your guns.
There will be no headlines of jack booted thugs going around systematically kicking in innocent people’s doors and garnering a bunch of negative press for themselves that people can rally themselves around. There will be individual local little news articles, one at a time, all along the lines of “Arsenal Of Illegal Weapons Found in [town name] Man’s Home/Car By Brave Policemen After Conducting Traffic Stop, One Of Which Was a High Capacity Black Semiautomatic AR Glock Assault Child-Shooter,” with an article underneath carefully spin-doctored to slander the individual in question as a mentally unstable transgendered pot smoking child grooming terrorist. They’ll do this one at a time, forever, even long after they’ve gotten everyone the think they wanted to get.
The only defense against that is to assume that any time a cop looks in your direction you need to lock and load right then and there and initiate a fight for your life. Even if you win, you’ll automatically be the bad guy.
Are you ready for that?
Is anyone ready for that?
Lotta people willing to arrest people who are unarmed for a nice paycheck, a lot less are willing to die for that paycheck.
The left needs to be armed like yesterday, and we need to be protesting armed to the teeth. Watch how magically the police and ice let them be.
all you need is to take 1 down with you when you go. and for them to know that 1 of them isn’t going home.
People are worth far more than 1 cop.
not to them
Well obviously in their eyes human life is less than worthless. How do you serve the public and protect the borders without being a hateful coward?
self delusion, an inherent tendency to assign fucked up values to people, years of adjusting to a work culture where it’s normalized to fight detainees for sport.
there’s a pipeline but the selection process starts by picking people who just desire power over others
Yeah it’s a reproductive selection process for hateful cowards.
It is not enough for them to know of fear; they must experience it in the same manner that they inflict it. Omnipresent, unending, sinister, and subtle. Let every interaction with the public become a roll of the dice. Then let’s see how brave they are; how willing they are to stick to their cause.
Will you take up arms against the US government if they try to take away trans peoples guns??
What do you have in mind by take up arms? Super vague call to action.
First they came for the gay’s guns…
It is important to set up a system to confiscate guns. Try it on a small group then expand gun confiscation group by group. Eventually a loyalty pledge will be required, then conscription.
To their immense credit the NRA is against this. Probably because the gun lobby wants to sell guns to scared trans people.
…did the NRA just do something I agree with? This is indeed the darkest timeline.
I really thought they were going to side with the administration like they did when it was California trying to defang the Black Panthers.
I heard The Professional Left suggest that trans show up to events, fully strapped with as many legal guns as possible and then see how fast they do a repeat of Cali for the Panthers…
I’m shocked they’re on the right side of this, but they are funded by the arms industry
They put out a statement saying they don’t support taking away guns. That’s not doing something.
let’s not forget Trump’s executive order to forcibly imprison mentally ill people…
I saw the headline a day or two ago about how they wanted to remove their guns, and my first thought was they’re going to declare them mentally ill.
Sigh
Mentally defective? Voting republicunt is mentally defective!
Nice distraction though: RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!
