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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    We MUST allow Mentally Defective Americans to Own guns but ONLY if they’re Shooting up Schools and Churches! OTHERWISE we need to TAKE THEIR GUNS AWAY!

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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?

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      Set up snitch lines for snitching on trans people, get medical doctor loyalists to snitch on trans people, they can find out who is trans pretty easily, then use ICE to sweep them up.

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        They have a corporation already doing this: setting up a centralized database for monitoring all citizens. It’s called Palantir (Stock ticker: PLTR). So, if that database can easily have a boolian value for transgender. Then, all they got to do is operate off that database for finding which transgender persons have a gun, check that database to see if the person is unable to buy one because they’re marked as Jew transgender, and consult that database when it comes time to round up the Jews transgender people for confinement in internment camps.

        Not saying this is anything but evil, but they are putting the tools of genocide together now. With this, they’ll label the undesirables with a gold star that people won’t be able to not wear, they just won’t know its there. But, facial recognition technology will be able to take care of any incongruities.

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          Will they go after their own citizens at the same time as attacking Vzla, Canada, Greenland, Panama (take your pick) - what does Germany in WWII say?

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    Hahahahahaha I bet removing trans peoples guns will be the straw that finally breaks the camels back in the US. LOLOLOL what a bunch of pathetic fash.

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      you underestime just how much they hate. I think their hate will overcome anything that fuck does.

      people are incredibly stupid, incredibly lazy and america is chock full of authoritarians just craving to be told what to do.

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      You would hope. I mean even the NRA came out against this bullshit! But I do Uber in a smallish town, and the shit I’ve heard…

      I look like the typical masculine “ideal” these idiots have in their head; y’all, well built, blonde hair, blue eyes. So they tend to over share. And I’ve gotten a couple complaints about “illegal driving” which is fucking laughable to anyone who rides with me, and Uber cause they use telemetrics on the phone out the ass, so they can see how my driving was.

      But I don’t just let shit go anymore. If you say something stupid I’m going to inform you of the truth and make you feel dumb while I do it. Recently some dude was gushing about alligator Auschwitz, and when I told him they are shutting it down you could see… Nothing, there was absolutely nothing behind this dude’s eyes.

      He also bragged about how him and his girl “are” Marines then immediately tells me he got kicked out of basic forrrr(drumroll please)… Selling fucking meth! These people vote.

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    Where are the 2fa people howling to keep gun rights? They seem to be fine with this. Maybe their whining was never about guns at all?

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    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.

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      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?

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      Lotta people willing to take 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.

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

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        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.

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            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?

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              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