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8. And it's a short step to involuntary commitment.

Thu Sep 4, 2025, 02:00 PM

Sep 2025

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Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say [View all] highplainsdem Sep 2025 OP

WTF Pachamama Sep 2025 #1

they want to blame mass shootings on trans folk, immigrants, etc Skittles Sep 2025 #10

Maybe they should just ban MEN from owning them TexasBushwhacker Sep 2025 #4

How about banning Trump voters from owning weapons? C_U_L8R Sep 2025 #5

I would like to see stats on rampaging transgender people, Bayard Sep 2025 #6

Where's the 2A crowd? Trump is coming for your guns. /nt bucolic_frolic Sep 2025 #7

The solution is the absolute right of any citizen The Mouth Sep 2025 #27

And it's a short step to involuntary commitment. TommyT139 Sep 2025 #8

They are doing that now with homeless Nigrum Cattus Sep 2025 #17

Yep TommyT139 Sep 2025 #24

If that's hildegaard28 Sep 2025 #9

But not angry young Incel men... Chasstev365 Sep 2025 #11

Cuz they're real 'Mericans. Redleg Sep 2025 #15

The purpose is to allow easier mass arrests and detention. Oneironaut Sep 2025 #12

Yup orangecrush Sep 2025 #29

They will claim that it is a mental illness Redleg Sep 2025 #13

Yep. hamsterjill Sep 2025 #22

Which does nothing for all the other people who do mass shootings IronLionZion Sep 2025 #14

Per CNN, in the last decade, there have been 5000 mass shootings. Staph Sep 2025 #16

voting for trump is a mental disorder moonshinegnomie Sep 2025 #18

Looking at a few cases TommyT139 Sep 2025 #26

This message was self-deleted by its author LongtimeAZDem Sep 2025 #23

Fantastic question gay texan Sep 2025 #28

Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 #25

Precedent...... First, they came for::: Norrrm Sep 2025 #31