When something tragic happens, especially a mass shooting that involves children, the instinct of whoever is in power to “do something” is seemingly irresistible. Whether those instincts are well-meaning or simply a “never let a crisis go to waste” power grab is always up for debate, of course. Usually, Democrats are the ones calling for gun bans while Republicans point to other solutions like hardening schools or fixing the cultural rot that leads to such horrors being commonplace. Of late, however, it is Republicans who have been calling for the gun bans.

It’s true. According to recent reports, senior Department of Justice (DOJ) officials serving in the administration of President Donald Trump were actively considering proposals to restrict transgender individuals from owning guns. They were understandably reacting to the latest mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis by Robert “Robin” Westman, a dude who thought he was a lady (even though, ironically, it’s not at all ladylike to murder kids).

I’m torn on this one, truly. In fact, shootings and thwarted planned shootings by these types have been on the rise of late, and the proposed policy would simply correctly classify these delusional head cases as the “mentally ill” nutjobs they are, thus banning them from firearm ownership under federal law that already prohibits gun ownership by people who are “adjudicated as a mental defective.” The idea, according to a Justice Department official quoted in the CNN report, would be to “ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell.”

On the one hand, yes, transgender individuals are unstable mentally ill people by definition, regardless of what the ideologically captured American Psychiatric Association has to say on the matter. How else would you describe someone who is under the delusion that they are something other than what they are? How would you describe someone who genuinely thought they were a cat, or a tree, or the second coming of Napoleon? I would describe such a person as batsh*t insane, and any normal person not constrained by the tyranny and absurdity of political correctness would absolutely do the same.

So yeah, the idea of preventing insane people from owning guns isn’t, well, insane at all. It is, however, as this Reason article explains quite well, fraught with all kinds of legal and constitutional problems. It’s also a slippery slope that should be entered into with extreme caution. What happens when a Democratic administration and DOJ uses the pathways blazed by well-meaning people in the Trump administration and DOJ to ban people THEY deem “insane” from owning firearms? Imagine homeschool parents, conservative evangelical Christians, preppers, ‘Covid deniers’, ‘racists’ (whatever THAT is, but remember THEY get to define it), and endless more categories of people who simply disagree with some form of leftism. What’s to prevent any of us from being labeled as ‘mentally ill’ and having our rights taken away? If we go down this path, they’ll happily do it too. Sure, they’ll probably try it anyway, but why make it easy?

So if we aren’t going to ban guns, what SHOULD we ban? How about getting to the root of this evil ideology that has wrecked society and ruined so many lives? That’s right. Instead of banning guns, we should absolutely use the reins of power to try and eliminate transgenderism from every aspect of American life. 

Does that mean jailing people with gender dysphoria? No, although people, including those with gender dysphoria, who display homicidal tendencies or are a danger to themselves and others should certainly be involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility. What it does mean though, for starters, is banning any government funding that goes towards advancing gender ideology. Instead, the government should be actively involved in funding research and advancing facts that counter and discredit this utter nonsense.

But it shouldn’t stop there. It’s great that much of the world seems to have woken up to the dangers of ‘transitioning’ kids. However, everything that rightly applies to children regarding this butchery should be applied to everyone. Doctors who perform transition surgeries or prescribe hormones with an intent toward making the body mimic features of the opposite sex of the patient should forfeit their medical licenses and face prison time. And if a man pretending to be a woman is hopped up on estrogen or a woman pretending to be a man is hopped up on testosterone when they murder someone, the doctor who prescribed it should be hit with manslaughter charges at the very least. As for the lives already ruined, the government should pave the way for lawsuits aplenty for any detransitioners who wish to sue the butchers who permanently disfigured them.

Further, the psychiatric industry should be turned on its head on this issue. Ideological leftists should be purged from their lofty perches at the American Psychiatric Association and government-funded universities & think tanks and replaced by sane people who will encourage treating people with gender dysphoria by helping them come to terms with the body they were given instead of trying to change something that cannot be changed.

It’s time to go to war with butchery and quackery disguised as ‘medicine’ that is gender ideology and transgenderism. Maybe people should have the freedom to wear what they want and present themselves however they wish, but society should relegate such depravity to the red light districts it was once found exclusively in. Do all this, and gun bans won’t be necessary.

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