c/liberalgunowners · by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 358d

Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment

I don't want to be "that guy" but now is the time to stock up.

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18 Comments

SalamenceFury@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 358d (7 replies)

Yeah, that's the prime sign. Everyone who's trans and does not have ideations should buy a firearm right this instant before they can't.

Remember, kids: do not let them take you quietly.

dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 358d (6 replies)

I appreciate the qualifier of not having ideation. I’m not trans but I do have suicidal ideation and decided that gun ownership would be a bad idea.

Edit: gun ownership for me would be a bad idea.

SalamenceFury@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 358d (3 replies)

Yeah, one cannot defend themselves from external threats if they can't defend themselves from their own brain. But you can always push a friend who doesn't have any ideations to defend you if necessary.

dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 358d (2 replies)

I have a few folks who have my back, and I carry an IFAK with me in case I need to render aid to someone who is hurt.

SalamenceFury@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 358d

That's the spirit.

shai_hulud@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 358d

Good on you! Every team needs a medic.

IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 358d (1 reply)

I'm in the same boat. These days I feel like it's mostly under control but occasionally a bad day happens and if I had the means ... Well, it doesn't take much effort to pull a trigger and I know it.

I've decided the best way I can support and help should violence erupt is to cultivate other skills, like learning some EMS skills or having a garden. Still learning but I think those things might ultimately be more helpful than the gun anyway.

dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 358d

Yeah, it’s better now for me than a few years ago but I still have those thoughts from time to time.

TommySoda@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 358d (1 reply)

Right, but nothing about the other 20+ shootings that were done by white men. Those guys can have as many guns as they want.

chonkyninja@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 353d

20+? We’ve had 156 this year alone.

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 358d

Called it. :(

dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 358d (2 replies)

Surely the NRA will take a principled stand against this, any minute now…

Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 357d (1 reply)

From another article I read here on Lemmy, it seems they're against it