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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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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?
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.
“treatment”
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.
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.
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
let’s not forget Trump’s executive order to forcibly imprison mentally ill people…
Mentally defective? Voting republicunt is mentally defective!
Nice distraction though: RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!
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
JEFFERY EPSTEIN
RELEASE THE FILES SO WE CAN GET ON WITH THE PUBLIC EXECUTIONS
Every politician that is not pushing for the release is most likely complicit in this global child sex trafficking ring.
And now we get to the fascists beginning to disarm their enemies phase. After that it won’t be long before they label registered Democrats as mentally defective.
If at least half of the republican supporters are not mentally defective, I don’t know who is…
Half is a lowball
And when the prey has been defanged, then come The Camps.
…but all the conservative pedos get to keep their guns, amirite?
I’m curious at just how many “trans” people they think have guns in the first place. Let alone the bullshit science behind their reasons.
We’ve armed in the past few years pretty heavily as it’s become clear they want to hurt us
Yep, I’m straight, but own my own range and have had a few trans friends now come and shoot and learn on it.
Arm up my LGBTQ+ people! An armed minority is harder to oppress!
I’m not saying your not armed… I’m just saying, statistically, it’s probably quite a low amount of people altogether. Which hardly would justify any action at all… not that it’s justified in the first place.
Yeah sheer numbers last i checked our total population in America is similar to the number of Americans from Boston. And honestly it’s anyone’s guess which group is more armed.
Don’t worry, everyone! The red flag laws will make this legal!
don’t forget trump’s executive order to forcibly imprison mentally ill and homeless people
Can’t ban guns, won’t work.
Hey, I know. Let’s ban transgendered people. That will work.
