President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a federal ban on transgender individuals owning guns -- sparking backlash from gun rights groups, including the National Rifle Association.
The controversial proposal comes after a series of mass shootings perpetrated by transgender individuals, including the recent massacre at a Minnesota Catholic school where two children were murdered.
Some inside the administration see the proposal as a way to squeeze Democrats, who have spent years calling for "common sense" gun control.
Many Democrats already support red flag laws that allow guns to be taken from unstable individuals without due process, but it is doubtful that they would support treating gender dysphoria like a dangerous illness.
"Democrats have called for common sense gun laws for a long time -- this seems pretty common sense to me,” a Justice Department source told Breitbart News.
While once widely viewed as a mental disorder, gender dysphoria has largely been normalized in recent years, with a shift towards social "affirmation" and medical intervention.
The shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis has reopened a debate about dysphoria and how it should be treated, with some arguing there is a pattern of transgender people disproportionately committing gun violence.
Robin Westman, the man behind the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church, expressed remorse about transitioning in his twisted manifesto.
Leftist trans advocates insist that there is no link between transgenderism and gun violence, citing data that shows trans individuals commit a small number out of hundreds of mass shootings each year.
But some say this approach uses too broad a definition of the term "mass shooting," which most people associate with premeditated acts of violence meant to inflict maximum suffering on innocents - even children. These atrocities are relatively rare, but trans people have been linked with several of them in recent years, despite comprising a small percentage of the population.
The massacre in Minneapolis was eerily similar to one in Nashville two years ago, where a woman, identifying as a male, murdered three Christian schoolchildren and three adults.
While some argue that Trump's hypothetical ban is long overdue, it is certain to face stiff constitutional challenges and has already met backlash from gun rights groups, including the National Rifle Association (NRA.)
“The NRA supports the Second Amendment rights of all law abiding Americans to purchase, possess and use firearms,” the organization said. "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.”
