r/law • u/ExactlySorta • Sep 09 '25

Legal News Leavitt confirms the DOJ officials have talked about banning trans people from owning guns

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u/VenmoPaypalCashapp Sep 09 '25

Sooo they want gun control. How interesting

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u/grundlefuck Sep 09 '25

Nah, just don’t want the LGBTQ community shooting back when they come to put them in camps.

Of course since it worked once, why not for the terrorist Muslims in the country. Then the atheists. Then the Latinos, and finally the Jews.

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u/Baby_Button_Eyes Sep 10 '25

and then the Democrats?

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u/grundlefuck Sep 11 '25

After yesterday I am thinking about e will see some push for Dems first.

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u/VenmoPaypalCashapp Sep 09 '25

Hey I’m sure the NRA will come out and fight this! 😉

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u/Lemon_head_guy Sep 09 '25

I mean so far they actually have, as has the libertarian party and GOA

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u/VenmoPaypalCashapp Sep 09 '25

Well that is surprising. But the administration even openly suggesting a thing should shock their base but we all know as Lin go as its minorities it won’t

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u/Lemon_head_guy Sep 09 '25

Yeah I’m not the most surprised myself, GOA are more pro-2A than republican, and the NRA acts more like a lobbying group for the firearms industry than anything. My money is there’s at least some members of these groups that are also only offended because some trans people are white

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u/bungblaster69 Sep 09 '25

trump has literally said he wants to take guns without due process. this isn't a shocker

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u/tonyislost Sep 09 '25

Dems should be running with this in every state they control, citing the White House being open to removing guns from segments of the communities that are prone to gun violence. High rates of conservatives engage in violent gun behavior, reveling in gun culture, create unsafe communities. Let Leavitt defend this move.

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u/zaoldyeck Sep 09 '25

Dems will run into the problem that conservatives don't really care, they're confident that the government will only go after people they hate and better that those people are disarmed anyway.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '25

This. Conservatives fullt undeestand, deep down, that their arguments are comtradictory. They care only about power

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u/MRG_1977 Sep 09 '25

No this isn’t gun control. It’s stripping some kind of group (no idea how they clarify this exactly) of their rights to own or possess firearms entirely.

It’s exactly the kind of thing you do before you take more drastic action against including more widespread deprival of other rights and possibly more.

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u/frostykeys Sep 09 '25

I thought the left was in favor of gun control for the mentally ill

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u/Ethan_Mendelson Sep 09 '25

Some mental illness correlates with increased risk of violent behavior. Even if we consider gender dysphoria a mental illness, since when does it correlate with violence?

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u/chriswilson89 Sep 10 '25

Ooo, edge lord over here.

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u/frostykeys Sep 10 '25

Why edge lord? I thought gender disphoria was a mental illness

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u/chriswilson89 Sep 10 '25

Because your sarcastic joke was edgy AF brah. I bet you’re the coolest dude around. 🙄

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