I've seen several sites post about this: "DOJ mulling rule that could restrict transgender individuals from owning guns: Sources"--ABC News. From the article:
Senior Justice Department officials have held internal deliberations in recent days over potentially issuing a rule that could restrict transgender individuals from being able to own firearms, two officials familiar with the discussions confirmed Thursday to ABC News.
The policy discussions, which are believed to be in their early stages and driven in part by chatter in right-wing media, follow last week's Minneapolis Catholic church shooting that the FBI has said was carried out by a transgender woman.
Such a proposal could face significant pushback not only from civil rights groups but from gun rights organizations, which have historically been resistant to the issuance of any regulations restricting people's access to firearms.
Time Magazine adds: "The aim of such a policy would be 'to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell,' an official reportedly said."
A lot of the comments I see view this as master level trolling because the Left will now have to choose between supporting gun control or supporting the rights of transgenders. Time Magazine seems to have opted for the latter, describing the rumors as yet another attack on trans rights by the Trump Administration, but other groups have also gone with the latter route, with Time also relating:
Legal experts and LGBTQ+ advocates have sounded the alarm on the potential restriction.
“The Constitution isn’t a privilege reserved for the few; it guarantees basic rights to all. Transgender people are your neighbors, classmates, family members, and friends—and we deserve the full protection of our nation's laws, not anti-American nonsense from the White House,” Laurel Powell, director of communications at the Human Rights Campaign, told ABC News. “If rights can be stripped from one group simply because of who they are, they can be stripped from anyone.”
But there is precedent for this: the so-called "red flag" laws that allow a person's Second Amendment rights to be stripped if a person is deemed to be a danger to him- or herself or to others; and federal law prohibitd someone who has been adjudicated as mentally defective or has been committed to a mental institution from owning a firearm. According to federal regulations, being "adjudicated as a mental defective" includes a determination by a lawful authority that a person, due to "marked subnormal intelligence, mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease," lacks the mental capacity to manage their own affairs. If the Human Rights Campaign doesn't like this, perhaps they should be opposing "red flag" laws.
Start with those enabling this illness.
ReplyDeleteEnablers should be held liable for the crimes and damages committed by those young boys and girls whose sanity they have destroyed. They remind me of the hapless professor in Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Rope" who was amazed that, after brainwashing his students into thinking morality was passe, two of them murdered a third student. Except that the professor in that movie was horrified by what happened, while most of those enabling this illness either don't care or think the victims deserved it.
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