In my piece yesterday on President Trump's attempt to revert the Department of Defense back to the Department of War, I made the case the Department of War would be going to war against Americans by, among other things, targeting people President Trump dislikes such as transgendered persons.
From ABC News:
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 transgendered woman.
Of course, the murder and mayhem which took place at the Anunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis last month is appalling. Frankly, this is a discussion which should have never happened at DoJ. But now that it has happened, now is the time to stop such foolishness and mischief.
For starters, this is flagrantly unconstitutional. The Second Amendment does not read "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed unless it is transgendered persons or any other groups President Trump and MAGA dislike."
Instead of discussing gun control measures which would apply to all Americans, the Trump Administration is using the tragedy as a cudgel against transgendered persons.
But let us suppose the Trump Administration was serious about restricting firearms ownership then what better place to start than with white supremacists. Indeed, white supremacists have been responsible for numerous mass shootings in this country - the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin in 2012, the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, the Walmart in El Paso, Texas in 2019 and the Tops grocery store in Buffalo in 2022 among others.
And undoubtedly it will happen again.
When it does, do you honestly believe for a moment that the Trump DoJ would give a moment's thought to restricting the gun rights of white supremacists?
Not on your life. Indeed, white supremacists are a core part of the Trump/MAGA constituency.
So why are transgender persons being singled out? Well, I mean beyond the fact that the Trump and MAGA hate transgendered people.
Then again there probably is no other reason.
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