The Trump Administration is considering a bold action that will undoubtedly spark a significant debate about public safety and the Second Amendment in the wake of recent school shootings by transgender individuals.
As The Daily Wire reported, the Trump Department of Justice is looking at potentially barring those who identify as transgender from purchasing firearms.
“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,” a Justice Department official explained to The Daily Wire.
A DOJ source told CNN that one way this could work is for Trump to issue a declaration that people who identify as transgender are mentally ill and thus cannot possess firearms.
The outlet notes that current federal law says that a judge must declare a person to be mentally “defective” before being stripped of their right to own guns.
The New York Post reports that members of the Department of Justice DOJ) think the move can be approved as a follow-up on Trump’s executive order preventing trans folks from serving in the military.
The far-left advocacy group GLAAD lashed out upon hearing the trans individuals may be declared mentally ill and no longer allowed to own guns.
“Instead of actual solutions, the administration is again choosing to scapegoat and target a small and vulnerable population,” a GLAAD spokesperson whined. “Everyone deserves to be themselves, be safe, and be free from violence and discrimination.”
Statistics show that the transgender community indeed has a mental health crisis, providing the Trump Administration ammunition for pursuing a potential ban of sorts. For example, statistics show more than 40%> of transgender people have attempted suicide, while 56% have engaged in self-harm over their lifetimes.
But while the Trump Administration has the facts on its side regarding transgenderism and mental illness, one could argue that it would be introducing a slippery slope by banning an entire group from purchasing firearms.
What would stop a future Democrat regime from using this logic to ban MAGA conservatives from owning guns, citing the mental illness argument? Democrats would love to find a loophole to make this nightmare come true.
We all want to stop the violence and keep guns out of the wrong hands, but Team Trump must ensure that any move they make on guns is constitutionally sound.
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