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- usa@midwest.social
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- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- politics@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35481552
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.
Only a doctor can make a mental illness diagnosis.
Nobody will voluntarily give up their guns, especially under Trump. So just try to come and get them.
Did the NRA forget to “Resist Tyranny” again? Remember their decades of BS about how “the libs were coming for your guns?”
The language prohibiting the ownership of guns for the mentally ill is someone who has been adjudication as mentally defective (as in: by a court declaration), or who has been committed to a mental institution.
As for gender identity: the ATF added the option of non-binary gender to the 4473 5 years ago, so it clearly didn’t have an issue then.
To be fair, they did apologize for #3… https://theshovel.com.au/2020/06/04/nra-accidentally-forgets-to-rise-up-against-tyrannical-government/