Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics
The article claims the perpetrator was trans. They conveniently left out that they detransitioned and fell into nazi and fascist ideology.
Do you have a link to this?
Meanwhile, and I note this as a veteran of the Iraq war myself, 28.5% of mass shooters had a military background, but they're not coming after veterans for THEIR guns.
only 7.4% of americans serve in the military. while i know that's not how statistics work, it seems to be a significant marker. like, i know more than a few former marines who like to talk about luring people onto gold mines because they think then it's somehow legal to murder them.
Or, you know, white disenfranchised boys? Not that they are all killers, but most mass shooters do come from that group
why bother? can't afford guns if they just leave veterans to die after discharge
I'm sure the 2nd amendment folks are making a big fuss about this, right? Right?!
If you're trans, this is your signal to buy a gun ASAP.
I taught self defense to families for many years, I always encouraged learning about and owning firearms as first-line items of defense because all the eye-gouging and groin-kicks in the world won't help if someone enters your home with a gun.
I am not a gun-nut. I believe we need stricter laws and required training to own the things, but that isn't going to happen so the least you can do is make sure you're not the one without a force multiplier.
I have recently been telling trans people very bluntly and directly that they need to arm up. I get a lot of pushback, a lot of it is very "online" in nature and performative, and a lot of trans girls have a hard time reconciling it with their ideas of femininity, but I am telling you all now, they may come for you. You are literally in danger in the USA. Maybe not now, but very possibly in the near future.
The only thing that will keep a fascist administration from going door-to-door to black-bag undesirables is if every home visit is a potential stand-off and bloodbath. Yes, it may come to that. It's sad and shitty that they have put you in this position, but you have to become part of the meat-grinder, not a name that disappears off lists and census surveys.
Please, please, please keep saying this to anyone who will listen.
At a gun show or other private seller.
I really hate the term gun show loophole
Maybe the situation and laws are different in other parts of the country, but at every gun show I've ever been to all of those people with stands set up selling guns are dealers, so to buy a gun through them you have to go through all the legal hoops as if you were buying from a regular gun store.
I suppose there's a lot of randos wandering around there who own guns who might be convinced to do a private sale, but that doesn't really have anything to do with them being at a gun show except it's a convenient networking opportunity. You could just as easily hang around outside of a shooting range trying to find a private seller.
Through any means is fine
As long as once you have it you don't give it up
Blacks, women and LGBT have been the largest gun buying demographic since Trump 1.0.
I’m conflicted about this advice.
If we do end up in a civil war scenario, it’s important that gun ownership is not severely lopsided against vulnerable groups.
But in the meantime, gun ownership is a massive risk factor for suicide (attempts and fatalities), and trans folks are at a higher risk in the first place.
I do agree that suicide is a risk, and that guns increase the risk by making it very easy, 100%. I'm not gunna choose a side for you either, it's a hard one.
I do want to note two things though. It doesn't need to be a full blown civil war for them to start abusing and arresting trans people, and many trans suicides are caused by transphobia, both from other citizens and from government policy.
There won't be a civil war. Americans won't do shit.
Where's NRA? Is this not an erosion of what they are fighting for?
Sure, Putin's slush fund is going to argue with Putin's puppet. HA
Right. Because trans people have equal rights, just not quite as equal as others. Maybe like 3/5 equal. And you need that extra 2/5 to be covered under the Bill of Rights.
You can tell the GOP's role model is Hitler with all the plans they have.
You can't have a good fascist country without minority groups to oppress and blame everything on. Especially when republicans are responsible for most of the crimes the administration complains about.
It's likely Hitler's role models were the white supremacists of America. The Heritage Foundation has roots that trace back much further than Hitler and Nazi Germany, and Hitler himself had material regarding the effectiveness of Jim Crow laws.
The Heritage Foundation also clearly has applied lessons learned from Nazi Germany - outright executions are going to get you lots of resistance, where as disease, policy driven famine, and political violence can kill a large number without ever becoming too unpopular. Interestingly, this may be the reason they push so hard for controlling all media and social media platforms.
The GOP really don’t want their fellow chasers to get popped in self-defense when the trans panic sets in.
Told you all over and over to arm up before it's too late, hope at least some of you listened and not everyone was reflexively, performatively aghast at the idea of owning a tool of death.
meanwhile a shooting is likely happening right now by cis white male shooter #408
Is that cognitive dissonance I smell?
That’s what happens before they get disappeared
Cool. Please waste your time with this. It won’t succeed and it will take away from other damaging things they can do.
Yeah, no. This is how you get people to start buying guns in masse AND shooting at any cop that rings their door.
Stop! I can only get so erect.
Such a pointless waste of time with the only purpose being to ingratiate bigots with other bigots.
So fucking stupid.
Well if we are able to get out of this shitshow and get competent people in charge again maybe we can use whatever loophole they use for this to enact some actual gun regulations.
Sorry, you see Harris loved the genocide so much she had to be defeated, meaning that trump is dictator for life, at least until they do some paperwork so Peter Theil can be dictator for life. Also the genocide got much worse and there's no sign of it stopping which probably wasn't Harris' plan but we'll never know.
And anyway the whole thing's moot - by the time the midterms roll around in just about a year, we'll have some other GRU talking point seeded around the interwebs to divide the left.
Using actual bigotry to get what you want politically is bad regardless of how "good" your political objective is.
As someone who thinks the Second Amendment SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED every Time it's used to MURDER CHILDREN I FULLY SUPPORT this Idea to Save The Children!
They will treat Heller the same way they treated Roe.
It’s obv anti-constitutional, why trump bother to do something like this that will never work
All of a sudden gun control sounds good to the fascists. Very very weird.
Fascists love gun restrictions
A number of gun restrictions were implemented to disarm minorities in America.
Liberty for me, but not for thee
It's always ever been an argument for themselves, white nationalists and fascists, to have the guns, and everyone who isn't them to not have guns.
They only ever argued from a constitutional nature to bend liberals who value law and fairness and it's worked incredibly well.