https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 03:12 AM)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment
In the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic church shooting, senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.
The talks, described as preliminary in nature, appear to build on an idea that has gained some currency in conservative media since the Minneapolis shooting that killed two children and injured 21, most of them children, at Annunciation Catholic Church, an attack that police say was carried out by a 23-year-old transgender woman.
Such a move would represent a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s fight against the rights of transgender Americans.
President Donald Trump has issued a series of executive orders on the topic, including one barring transgender people from serving in the military and another ordering federal prisons to move transgender inmates to facilities corresponding to their gender assigned at birth.
In addition, the idea of restricting gun rights has long been a red line for conservatives, with many Republican lawmakers and gun rights groups opposing red flag laws and or other policies aimed at keeping guns away from people suffering from mental health issues.
But Justice Department leadership is seriously considering whether it can use its rulemaking authority to follow on to Trump’s determination to bar military service by transgender people and declare that people who are transgender are mentally ill and can lose their Second Amendment rights to possess firearms, according to one Justice official.
Another senior Justice Department official cautioned that any such proposal, should it gain steam, would likely run into legal complications.
Millions of Americans have mental health issues and many take medications, but are not a danger to society and therefore cannot have their rights infringed upon.
Federal law requires that a judge declare a person to be mentally “defective” before being stripped of their right to own firearms.
Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School, says she takes seriously this latest effort to target transgender people in the US. The administration, she argues, could try to have government agencies declare people with gender dysphoria as subject to a gun ban and then use other levers of the government, such as Medicare and Social Security Administration, to compile a list of transgender people to be targeted.
But she also warns that the same methods could be used against others.
“This precedent being used against trans people could be used against veterans with PTSD,” Caraballo said. “It’s a slippery slope to make anyone lose their 2nd amendment rights.”
A spokesperson for the advocacy group GLAAD said the DOJ is using the transgender community as a scapegoat.
“Instead of actual solutions, the administration is again choosing to scapegoat and target a small and vulnerable population,” the GLAAD spokesperson said, noting that transgender people are less than 2% of the US population but four times as likely to be victims of crime. “Everyone deserves to be themselves, be safe, and be free from violence and discrimination.”
The vast majority of mass attacks in the US have no connection to transgender people.
From January 2013 to the present, of the more than 5,700 mass shootings in America (defined as four or more victims shot and killed), five shooters were confirmed as transgender, said Mark Bryant, founding executive director of the Gun Violence Archive.
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 03:32 AM)
True statement, but his organization sucks. They routinely suck off the police and they endorsed Donald Trump in 2024 despite the 2019 bump stock ban and Trump's assertion during his first term that we should, "Take the guns first, then due process."
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/. — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 04:00 AM)
he's pretty big on censorship as well. which is funny, considering that he's supposed to have been banned so much.
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JustinCase — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 04:00 AM)
This will put anti gun, trannie supporting libs on the spot.
As for me I say, good.
I hope they do it being against both so I am good with getting rid of guns from any group for any reason.
The less out there the better.
EVERY liberal and left winger should agree.
As for the same old argument that the guns are keeping the Govt. at bay is a bullshit argument made by those with tiny dicks who want to think they are superior with a gun.
The military would steam roll over ALL gun owners if there was some kind of war in taking them away.
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 04:19 AM)
This is already happening. Republicans have spent years now obsessing over the 0.6% of the U.S. population who identify as trans, including a very creepy fascination with the genitals of children. The elites will always create a boogeyman to blame for the problems they're creating themselves and the most ignorant in society will always fall for it.
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 04:09 AM)
The United States military hasn't won a war since 1945 and hasn't won a war without help since 1898. They aren't a serious threat to anybody.
It is the height of idiocy to declare, on the one hand, that there are major problems with policing in America and, on the other hand, that those same cops are the only ones in our society who can be trusted to have guns. Pro-gun has always been a left-wing position. The first gun control laws in the United States were in Confederate states after the civil war when lawmakers barred former slaves from owning guns. Ronald Reagan, while governor of California, signed one of the most draconian gun laws in U.S. history with the goal of disarming the Black Panthers. Sadly, mainstream Democrats have ceded this issue to the right and the majority of gun owners today are in full support of the ongoing tyranny.
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 04:40 AM)
The militarization of law enforcement is a threat to the safety of every American. But bullies only target those who they perceive as weaker than them, which explains why the NYPD will kill a black man for selling cigarettes but won't touch any of the scumbags on Wall Street.
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JustinCase — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 04:17 AM)
The United States military hasn't won a war since 1945 and hasn't won a war without help since 1898. They aren't a serious threat to anybody.
You cannot compare a past event to a future one.
All the gun owners are going to have is just guns which is not enough to stop tanks and bombs from falling on them.
If you and all other gun owners want to feel superior and fool yourself, fine.
You do that.
I am good with those and every anti gun law that gets passed since every single gun a criminal uses was legal at one point.
So the less we have out there the better no matter what.
If those who don't like having their guns taken away then move to a safer location or change a lifestyle to where you don't feel like you need one.
Lock your doors.
Get a baseball bat.
Learn self defense.
Don't be a dick to others in public.
Etc.
Like I will never move to or even think of visiting the S. Side of Chicago.
How you die does not redeem how you lived. - A black pastor on the life and death of Charlie Kirk
