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DOJ considers banning transgenders from buying guns * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

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Get ready for Democrats and other leftists, who long have called for gun limits, gun restrictions, gun bans and gun confiscations. to start defending the Second Amendment.

It’s because there are reports the Department of Justice is considering the idea of banning transgenders from buying weapons.

After all, they could be argued to fall under existing restrictions on guns for those who have confirmed mental health conditions.

It is the Daily Wire that noted, “In the wake of the latest deadly attack on a school by a transgender-identifying individual, President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is considering blocking trans-identifying people from buying firearms.”

A DOJ source explained, “Individuals within the DOJ are reviewing ways to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell.”

The reasoning is that those who say they are transgender suffer from gender dysphoria, a mental disorder.

Specifics were not yet being discussed.

But the DOJ official said, “Under Attorney General Bondi’s leadership this Department of Justice is actively considering a range of options to prevent mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, especially at schools.”

The most recent gun violence by a transgender happened last week at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. Trans-identifying Robert Westman, who changed his name to Robin, but also admitted he regretted brainwashing himself, shot up a school, killing two students and injuring many more.

“Westman’s actions came only two years after another trans-identifying killer, this one a woman who identified as a man, targeted Christian school children in Nashville,” the report said.

The report continued, “A review by The Daily Wire found that the Annunciation school shooting and the Covenant Christian school shooting are just two examples of a steady stream of transgender-related violence over the past decade.”

It continued, “The move would undoubtedly infuriate those on the left who believe that men can become women and women can become men — and that people who identify as transgender are not mentally ill but merely living in the wrong body. These critics argue that transgender identification is irrelevant when discussing school shootings and that even discussing the topic puts trans-identifying people in danger and should be off limits.

“In recent years, doctors, therapists, activists, and even President Joe Biden’s administration have argued that people experiencing gender dysphoria will benefit from so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ — transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers — claiming that these gender dysphoric people are more likely to kill themselves if they don’t receive such ‘care.’ Opponents of these measures, including young people who underwent the procedures as teenagers like Chloe Cole, argue that ‘gender-affirming care’ does not mitigate the distress that gender dysphoric people have, but actually often exacerbates mental health issues.”

 

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh’s articles here.




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