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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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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago

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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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

And when the prey has been defanged, then come The Camps.

[–] PostaL@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If at least half of the republican supporters are not mentally defective, I don't know who is...

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Half is a lowball

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

...but all the conservative pedos get to keep their guns, amirite?

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don’t forget all the conservative wife beaters. They have to keep their guns too.

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

You mean cops?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 points 2 days ago

That describes every MAGA, as well.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 18 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I was wondering when they’d start actively taking rights away.

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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 17 points 2 days ago

Trans person:

3D prints your ruling

shoots it with a 3D printed gun

[–] GoodTransKitty@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

I ain’t budgin’ I refuse to be relocated and tortured.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Not surprising. They're gearing up for genocide.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'm curious at just how many "trans" people they think have guns in the first place. Let alone the bullshit science behind their reasons.

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[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

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

[–] kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Funny, we've already labeled Republicans this way 😂

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure the 2A crowd will be "up in arms" because of this...right?....right???

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/politics/nra-transgender-gun-control

Nra is even against it.

It's 2A people btw. 2fa is two factor authentication and has nothing to do with the 2nd.

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