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   From: IronWhite@SystemicPatriotism.org   
      
   max headroom wrote:   
      
   >A New Twist: National Rifle Association Blasts DOJ's Trial Balloon on   
   >Transgender Gun Ban   
   >   
   >Ward Clark   
   >   
   >When it comes to Second Amendment issues, the National Rifle Association   
   >(NRA) is still the 800-pound gorilla of the pro-gun rights movement.   
   >Other groups take a harder line, but whenever an anti-gun politician   
   >starts working his or her blowhole about the "gun lobby," it's always the   
   >NRA they bring up as their arch-demon. Full disclosure: My wife and I   
   >have been Life Members of the NRA since the mid-90s.   
   >   
   >The NRA has pretty consistently opposed the stripping of anyone's Second   
   >Amendment rights, any individual or any group, without due process. So   
   >when the Trump administration floated a trial balloon about removing   
   >Second Amendment rights from "transgender" individuals, the NRA was quick   
   >to release a statement opposing any such move.   
   >   
   >  The National Rifle Association (NRA) has sounded off on reports that   
   >  the Trump administration is mulling a way of limiting transgender   
   >  people's ability to purchase firearms.   
   >   
   >  The gun lobby group, the largest in the U.S. with 5 million members   
   >  according to its website, released a statement Friday reinforcing its   
   >  commitment that all law-abiding Americans have a right to bear arms.   
   >   
   >  It comes as Department of Justice officials have had several internal   
   >  meetings about placing restrictions on trans people in the wake of   
   >  Annunciation School shooter Robin Westman, who identified as trans,   
   >  killing two people and injuring 18 others late last month. Westman's   
   >  firearms were purchased legally, according to the Associated Press.   
   >   
   >And, we might note, Westman had never been adjudicated to be a "mental   
   >defective," nor committed to a mental institution. Not that Westman   
   >wasn't a wacko, as subsequent events proved, but the law is the law. The   
   >NRA is very clear on their stance: Due process must be observed.   
   >   
   >  "The NRA supports the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding   
   >  Americans to purchase and use firearms," the statement reads.   
   >   
   >  "NRA does not, and will not, support any policy proposals that   
   >  implement sweeping gun bans that arbitrarily strip law-abiding citizens   
   >  of their Second Amendment rights without due process."   
   >   
   >Another group, the Gun Owners of America (GOA), a group known for taking   
   >a harder line against gun control laws and gun bans, issued a very   
   >similar statement:   
   >   
   >  As well as the NRA, Gun Owners of America (GOA) issued a clear,   
   >  uncompromising stance on the issue.   
   >   
   >  "GOA opposes any and all gun bans. Full stop," the GOA wrote on X.   
   >   
   >That's as it should be.   
   >   
   >This is as it should be. Due process is key. Rights do not belong to   
   >groups; they belong to individuals. Rights cannot be defined as applying   
   >to groups; there are no "transgender rights," or "immigrant rights," or   
   >"black rights." There are only human rights, rights with which the   
   >government is forbidden from interfering with without due process. Those   
   >rights do not belong to groups. They certainly do not belong to the   
   >government. They belong to the people.   
   >   
   >It's easy to look for a quick fix after a tragedy like the Annunciation   
   >School shooting. And yes, there are clearly mental health issues involved   
   >here. Transgender people have committed an alarming number of these   
   >attacks lately, and it's a matter of concern. But we must not stoop to   
   >the level of yanking the constitutional rights of an identifiable group   
   >or people because of what other members of that group have done.   
   >   
   >The National Rifle Association and the Gun Owners of America are correct.   
   >There should be no talk of stripping a constitutional right away from a   
   >group. There should be no talk of stripping anyone of a constitutional   
   >right without due process.   
   >   
   >https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/09/06/a-new-twist-national-rifle-assoc   
   >iation-blasts-transgender-gun-bans-n2193656   
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   Trump is only doing to Transgenders what Hitler did to Jews during the   
   1930s.  Taking away their guns.  No harm in that, once they build the   
   concentration camps, the gas chambers and the crematoria.  Then we can   
   start shipping them there confined in cattle cars just like during the good   
   old days.   
      
   Besides, sexual deviancy as a threat to our children belongs with our   
   Christian Clergy; Priests and Ministers in a multi-faith effort!   
      
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