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Ocelot II

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3. So, if the purported reason for preventing trans people from owning guns

Thu Sep 4, 2025, 02:25 PM

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is that they are mentally ill, why is it that the GOP has consistently opposed restrictions on mentally ill people owning guns? In his first term Trump signed GOP-sponsored legislation that rolled back an Obama rule that made it harder for people with mental illnesses to buy guns. Currently, federal law prohibits gun ownership only if a person has been formally adjudicated mentally ill. Would that also apply to trans people, or are they to be presumptively considered mentally ill?

BTW, The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Association Center has reported that from 2016 to 2020, 96% of the shooters were men, 3% were women, and 2% were transgender.

What a bunch of evil crap.

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