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.
If at least half of the republican supporters are not mentally defective, I don’t know who is…
That describes every MAGA, as well.
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
Where’s the “shall not be infringed” crowd?
Standing right here. I’d also like to know what part of due process this is, exactly.
To their immense credit the NRA is against this. Probably because the gun lobby wants to sell guns to scared trans people.
let’s not forget Trump’s executive order to forcibly imprison mentally ill people…
This is probably just another distraction. I don’t think the executive brach has the power to declare someone mentally ill for the purposes of existing gun legislation. They would need a new law through congress, and they won’t get enough votes for that.
Legislation? That’s so old school. The really important stuff, like repealing Constitutional Amendments, is all done by Executive Orders these days.
Labelling the groups they hate as mentally defective is very much a Nazi move.
We can’t have mentally ill people breeding, we better start issuing pregnancy licenses that everyone has to apply for.
Operation Blazing Sword is a grass-roots organization dedicated to helping everyone, but especially queer people, become responsible firearm owners.
I am not into guns but I am into that group name! “Activate interlock! Dynatherms are connected! Infrashells are go! Let’s go!”
The right has never supported gun ownership for groups they consider outside “American identity” just look at Reagan’s actions while governor.
Republicans are coming for your guns. This is a test run on Heller.
Any clear-thinking individual has always recognized that the party that will be the first to restrict gun ownership will be the MAGAs.
First they came for the gay’s guns…
It is important to set up a system to confiscate guns. Try it on a small group then expand gun confiscation group by group. Eventually a loyalty pledge will be required, then conscription.
The right is about to learn the very important lesson that support of gun control does not necessarily imply a lack of gun ownership.
Too bad they’re likely to learn the wrong lesson.
Everyone always says why not provide free mental health care to prevent shootings.
Oh shit
What does the Massie family Christmas card have to do with it?
Look, Massie sucks, but I know they’re mad at him right now, so it’s an odd choice of image given the article is about the DOJ.
Does that look like a photo of a mentally stable group of people?
Not exactly, but I am pretty sure they’re so 2nd Amendment pilled they’d defend trans rights to an automatic rifle.
the sheer irony. i’m about to spin up a site that tracks metrics of MAGA vs the rest of the country in crime and fatalities
