NRA Standing Up For Trans Rights

The trial balloon floated by the Trump Department of Justice calling for the stripping of Second Amendment rights of transgender people was foolish. 

There's an old poem that aptly applies here:

“First They Came” by Pastor Martin Niemöller. He was a German Lutheran pastor who initially supported Hitler but later opposed the Nazi regime and was imprisoned in concentration camps.

Here is the most well-known version of the poem:

**“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”**

The message is clear: when injustice is ignored because it doesn’t personally affect someone, it will eventually grow until it does.

This is certainly the case of the trial balloon. Who would be next if trans people got their Second Amendment rights stripped from them? 

The Los Angeles Times reported:

Given the tsunami of news demanding your attention you might have missed an interesting trial balloon launched by the Department of Justice last week. Officials briefed reporters on preliminary discussions among the department’s top brass to ban transgender people from buying guns. This was in the wake of last month’s horrendous Minneapolis church shooting by a deranged killer who identified as trans and who murdered two children and injured at least 17 others.

The first outlet to report on the talks was the very Trump-friendly Daily Wire. The salient political issue, according to reporter Mary Margaret Olohan, was that, “The move would undoubtedly infuriate those on the left who believe that men can become women and women can become men — and that people who identify as transgender are not mentally ill but merely living in the wrong body.”

It’s certainly true that the trial balloon irked many on the left. GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign and similar groups from the civil rights community were also appalled.

Among the bothered was a very different kind of civil rights group. The National Rifle Assn., which describes itself as America’s “longest-standing civil rights organization,” responded in a statement: “The NRA supports the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans to purchase, possess and use firearms. 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.”

I agree with the NRA. Fortunately, this hare-brained idea won't be going anywhere.

To read more, go here. 

Minneapolis Shooting and Mental Health

Above, the shooter, Robin Westman.

The following was posted by Jamie Fraser-Page, the administrator of the Facebook page, Gun Owners of New Mexico:

It was impossible to avoid hearing about the shooting at a Catholic Church in Minneapolis, a parish church with a school attached not unlike the one in my neighborhood in Queens where several of my friends went. Some deranged individual, armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol fired all of them into the church where grade school kids were at prayer on the second day of the school year. 

The coward took her own life. Or his life. The shooter was a transgender person, which will no doubt become part of the narrative from one side, just like the three firearms will become the main point from the other side. Neither fact is the reason this happened. It happened because people who knew this person and saw their descent into madness did nothing to stop it.

There were a lot of indicators. Detached, isolated, creating a YouTube manifesto to explain the inexplicable - why anyone would shoot into a church filled with kids from the ages of 6 and 14, killing two, 8 and 10 and wounding 14 others as well as three parishioners in their 80s.  The shooter entered the church only after their deadly fusillade of gunfire ceased to end their life with a self-inflicted gunshot would.

We need to ask why no one saw this coming. Friends, parents, followers on YouTube and other social media must have known. And, assuming they could see it coming, why - why - did they do nothing to intervene and stop it before it started? 

I wonder if this person's change from Robert to Robin was influenced by the increased normalization of transgenderism and by the incessant progressive's preaching abut "toxic masculinity. Perhaps for some M->F transgenders among the young their decision to identify as female is driven or exacerbated by a feeling of being treated as "toxic" by some. 

While transgendered individuals according to several studies are only 0.6% of the population the number of young people ages 13 to 24,  is twice the average across all ages. I am not saying that there is a direct connection between a person identifying as non-binary or transgender means that they will become mass shooters, just that among those who seem driven to this aberration it might be a contributing factor. Food for thought, at least. 

We do a terrible job of identifying and treating the mentally ill. It is still an affliction viewed with a great deal of ignorance and fear - needlessly, since most people with mental health issues pose no threat to others and even little threat to themselves. But those who harbor suicidal and/or homicidal ideation - two sides of the same coin according to some - do pose such a threat. Few mass shooters are taken alive. After inflicting carnage on others they either take their own lives or force suicide by cop by taking precipitous action to trigger a lethal response.

We need to stop using these tragedies to further the agendas of the left or the right and actually *do* something to identify and fix the problem.  So many mass shooters give a lot of notice that they are going to do something horrific. We need to listen, watch and get them the help they need, intervene to prevent them from carrying out these acts. 

And, yes, when identified, they should be prevented from legally acquiring firearms. For nearly 60 years I have advocated for stripping from our laws the infringements to exercising our right to keep and bear arms protected by the 2nd Amendment . But I also feel that if a person is adjudicated a danger to self or others they need to be barred from access to firearms and explosives. And, if evidence is presented to a court of a credible threat, while a person's mental health is evaluated to rule out it posing a threat to self or others, they should not have access to firearms. This does not mean I support so-called Red Flag laws, since those lack due process. No right should be infringed upn nor abridged but by due process.

In the end, we as a society need to actually care - give a damn - about the incidents like this, which, though relatively rare compared to other types of killings happen far too frequently and are often preventable if due care is exercised. We need to push our elected representatives to create and fund programs to identify and get treatment for the millions of people with mental health issues and not turn a cold shoulder and a blind eye to their affliction. Out schools need to be especially observant of the signs and precursors of such acts and move to thwart them early by getting the individuals help. And, we need to consider having trained armed individuals in our schools and other places which have been targets in the past. And we need t avoid situations of command paralysis such as the one in Uvalde, TX. There is a lot we can do but we, the people need to push to make it happen. And it begins with giving a damn.

Men In Women's Sports: 45 Democrats Who Voted To Keep Them In

These are the 45 Senators who voted against keeping men out of your daughter’s sports:

Trump To Remove Transgender Servicemembers From Military

The incoming Trump Administration will be doing a massive clean-up of the military from day one.

This includes removing transgender military service members. Finally, the freakshow will be coming to an end.

According to the Gateway Pundit:

President Trump will remove transgender servicemembers from the military by executive order on day one of his presidency.

“The ban is expected to be wider ranging than a similar order made during his first term in office, when Trump prevented transgender people joining the armed forces, but allowed those already serving to keep their jobs. President Biden rescinded the order, but this time even those with decades of service will be removed from their posts, according to several sources,” The Times reported.  

Joe Biden and the Marxist left turned the US military into a woke social experiment as China promotes masculinity to their young males.

 To read more, go here.

A Great Reason NOT To Vote Democrat

 

BREAKING: Washington DC family lose custody of their autistic son, 16, after refusing to let him transition…

“A military family who lost custody of their autistic son after they refused to transition his gender are suing a major DC hospital.”

“The lawsuit says the child is currently living with the hospital's 'non-gendered' chaplain.”

To read more, go here.

Angela Carini

 

Biden Promoting Transhumanism Agenda

You can add sick to the above.

This may seem like an April Fool's Day joke, but it is not.

His Fraudulency Joe Biden is promoting the transhumanism agenda.

The Gateway Pundit reported:

The Biden administration is doubling down on its transhumanism agenda, urging parents to encourage their impressionable children to embrace the potential of being born in the wrong body.

“I want you to know that your President sees you –Joe, Kamala, Doug, our entire administration — sees you for who you are … deserving of dignity, respect, and support. But we know it’s hard when there are those out there who don’t see you, don’t respect you,” the dictator in chief said in a video published on Thursday commemorating his administration’s “Transgender Day of Visibility.”

“We’re committed to advancing transgender equality in the classroom, in the playing field, at work, in our military in our housing and health care systems — everywhere. Simply everywhere.” Biden added.

Encouraging children to select their gender is critical to their well-being, the illegitimate president with a notorious history of inappropriately touching women and children warned.

To read more, go here. 

Transgender Women Turned Away At Ukraine’s Borders, Have To Fight

The Russia-Ukraine war is causing interesting situations outside of the fight itself.

Many Ukrainians are fleeing the country as refugees to other countries, but some are being stopped at the border and told to go back and fight. Herein lies the problem. 

From The Gateway Pundit:

Meanwhile in the Ukraine…

Ukraine is blocking transgender women (biological males) from fleeing to neighboring countries as refugees.

Last month Ukraine ordered all men ages 18 to 60 to stay behind and fight Russian troops as women and children seek refuge in Poland, Moldova and Romania.

Trans ‘women’ in Ukraine are being turned away by border guards because their passports still identify them as “males.”

According to Ukraine’s martial law, all males must stay and fight.

And, some are being physically checked.

From The Guardian:

“Ukrainian border guards undress you and touch you everywhere,” Judis says. “You can see on their faces they’re wondering ‘what are you?’ like you’re some kind of animal or something.”

By the way, Russia is transphobic.

To read more, go here. 

NOTE: I take no position on transgender issues. To each their own.

USA Today Names "Women of the Year", But...

USA Today has totally lost all credibility as far as I am concerned.

They posted their "Women of the Year" list and one of them (at least) is a biological man. 

Nothing more needs to be said.

From the Daily Wire: