“Instead of actual solutions, the administration is again choosing to scapegoat and target a small and vulnerable population,” said a spokesperson for the LGBTQ+ advocacy group GLAADPeopleBy Charna FlamSeptember 4, 2025Need to know:
- On Aug. 27, 23-year-old Robin Westman, who was transgender, opened fire at Annunciation Catholic Church, killing two children and injuring another 21 people
- Though transgender people account for only a small fraction of mass shooters in America, reports have now surfaced that the Trump administration is considering excluding the trans community from the Second Amendment right to possess firearms
- The latest Justice Department proposal suggests that transgender people be labeled as mentally ill in order to bar them from owning guns
President Donald Trump's Justice Department is reportedly weighing a new policy that would target the transgender community following the Wednesday, Aug. 27, mass shooting at a Catholic school and church in Minneapolis.CNN and ABC News report that senior DOJ officials are considering limiting the right to possess firearms for transgender people. The alleged conversations, which are still in their early stages, come nearly one week after 23-year-old transgender woman Robin Westman opened fire at Annunciation Catholic Church, killing two children and injuring another 21 people.If enacted, the policy would be the latest in a string of attacks on the transgender community since Trump entered office for his second term.
This just goes to show you the hate Trump & Company has for us!
The Daily News reports....
The report, which called the discussions preliminary, said one option would be to use President Trump’s order barring trans people from serving in the military as a template for gun restrictions.The goal would be “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 told CNN, using a favored right-wing term for trans people.
This is serious!
Current law says gun rights can only be revoked from a person who is declared “mentally defective,” a very high legal bar that could not support a blanket ban applied to any large group of Americans.
This is very serious! The White House in an Executive Order on July 24 said in a statement,Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order. Surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor other citizens. My Administration will take a new approach focused on protecting public safety.
In the past Trump has called us mentally ill! Trump has repeatedly used language and policy to portray transgender identities as false, delusional, or a mental disturbance. Such rhetoric is both dehumanizing and at odds with the DSM and AMA standards.
Trump is using the shooting at the Catholic church as the impetus for this! However, punishing an entire trans community for the actions of one person is how scapegoating and demonizing begins.
In incidences where four or more people were shot or killed, excluding the shooter. Newsweek reports that the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) as of around 2025, the GVA reports approximately 4,134 mass shootings in the U.S. since January 1, 2018 and of those:
2018 — Aberdeen, Maryland (Rite Aid warehouse)
2019 — Denver-area charter school shooter
2023 — Covenant School, Nashville
2025 — Minneapolis shooter
And I am worried that all these attacks on our trans community that Trump ultimate end goal is concentration camps for us.
Meanwhile, the gun nuts are wondering who they got in bed with.
If President Trump’s actions were intended to drive a law-and-order wedge between Democratic big-city leaders and their constituents, it has also exposed a division in his own coalition.The New York TimesBy Glenn ThrushSept. 1, 2025The Trump administration’s crackdown on crime in Washington has been propelled, in part, by an aggressive clampdown on guns, with city and federal officials confiscating around 150 weapons since the president declared a crime emergency in the capital nearly three weeks ago.“I’m pleased to report another 105 arrests have been made and 12 illegal guns taken off the streets of Washington, DC,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on social media on Thursday. It was part of her near-daily tally of gun seizures, an effort spearheaded by Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.Under almost any other president, heralding a gun sweep would not be notable. But the shift toward gun enforcement — and publicizing the aggressive street sweeps — marks an abrupt departure for an administration that has courted Second Amendment maximalists and sharply downgraded federal firearms enforcement.[...]While these moves have not exposed major political divisions, they have caused some uneasiness among gun-rights supporters who are concerned that law-and-order officials like Ms. Pirro, who once supported restrictions on assault rifles, will create a chilling effect on legal gun owners in the district and in the surrounding area.“It sends a message we don’t like,” said Luis Valdes, the Florida director of Gun Owners of America, an influential gun rights group that has pushed for the repeal of most federal gun laws.
Hey! You crawled into bed with Trump so stop your bitching!
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