• Cort@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Limiting guns is probably one of the very few things Trump could do that might end with his ouster. His supporters are typically rabidly pro-gun.

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      14 hours ago

      Trump supporters are likely to ban “lunatics” from owning guns. when conservative media reports on shootings, the focus is on the “lunatic” rather than the easy availability of AR-15s.

      the problem is who MAGA frames as “lunatics”: leftists in general, trans people specifically. every time there’s a mass shooting, rumors spread that the shooter was trans. usually it’s a lie, but this time it’s evidently true.

      I think they’re manufacturing consent for mental illness background checks, so they can list gender dysphoria as a mental illness and disarm us.

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        11 hours ago

        Trump supporters are likely to ban “lunatics” from owning guns

        In the U.K., if your mental health comes in to question for any reason your guns are taken off you straight away. I’ve had this conversation with a USAian and they say “what about that persons right to own a gun”.

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          2 hours ago

          I think we should ban guns altogether. Failing that, I’d like to guns away from violently unstable people. But this Administration is constantly portraying leftists and trans people in particular as violently unstable, while turning a blind eye to white supremacists, J6 truthers and “patriots.”

          I have zero confidence they won’t include gender dysphoria and “Trump derangement syndrome” on the list of mental illnesses (states have actually tried this.)

          As long as fascists are armed, trans people must not be disarmed.