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.
To their immense credit the NRA is against this. Probably because the gun lobby wants to sell guns to scared trans people.
They put out a statement saying they don’t support taking away guns. That’s not doing something.
I’m shocked they’re on the right side of this, but they are funded by the arms industry
…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…