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.

  • Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    12 hours ago

    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.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      edit-2
      8 hours ago

      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.

    • CircaV@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      9 hours ago

      Will you take up arms against the US government if they try to take away trans peoples guns??