Saw tons of comments the last couple days about “Where’s the NRA to defend trans gun owners huh??!?”
Well here’s your answer - they said 2nd Amendment rights are for everyone and due process matters. Sometimes being cynical is just hurting your perspective.
Yah, there’s a large difference between cynicism and realism.
They’re defending their market, not the rights of trans Americans. If they actually cared about freedom and the constitution they would be uniting every gun owner to march on Washington and demand a president who follows the constitution, you know, the whole THING the NRA was supposed to represent.
Sure, but they’re not defending trans people, they defending guns.
Well they arent a trans lobbying group. They’re a gun ownership and gun rights lobbying group.
Eh if all Trans people where black the NRA would have a different tune.
I’m OK with the NRA not being hypocritical this time. Doesn’t mean anyone should expect anything from them.
Yeah, I fully expect this to be lip service. They’ve been married to the Republican Party for too long, they have too much money they’re going to lose access to if they actually defend a trans gun owner who loses their guns or is denied a gun purchase.
If I’m wrong I’ll be pleasantly surprised, but there’s a reason Pink Pistols is its own thing and not just a club run by the NRA.
If your grandma had wheels she could be a Go-Bot, so what?
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. The NRA (or its political arm) is a lobbying group for the gun industry. Banning any group from buying guns hurts the gun industry.
They didn’t complain, or at least loud enough for me to hear, when he banned some gun accessories on his last term. Was it bump stocks or something?
None of his base did, despite losing their shit about Obama and Joe “going to do it”, even though they didn’t
Especially a group of people who suddenly realize they’re in danger and are scooping up guns in large numbers right now.
Ive said for years, the moment the GOP gets enough power they will be alllll for gun control.
First shot across the bow at taking guns away from Trump/MAGA dissenters and political opponents. They start with a group they don’t think will incite too many, particularly the generally pro-2A Americans. Next it’ll be gays, then anyone with any connection to antifa, then just Democrats in general.
The know MAGA is all about the slippery slope, and if they make it illegal for one group, it will be illegal for almost everybody within five years.
How long till they start legally labeling all trans people as “mentally deficient” or declare them all no longer citizens just to bar them from having guns?
They banned guns when the black Panthers had them.
The NRA did not do that. California did that.
The NRA fully supported the bill
Which changes nothing. The NRA didnt do that nor were they particularly powerful in the 1970s.
My sister is looking at rifles now to complement her carry pistol and my friend’s wife has OK’d him getting a handgun for their home from this news.
Many trans people are white.
I remember the NRA’s response to the murder of Philando Castile.
You’re one of the largest and most powerful lobbying groups in the country. Let’s see them actually put that lobbying to work. Then I’ll believe they’re actually against this.
They were, recent events have changed this.
“without due process”.
There’s their caveat.
So if a trans person is arrested and adjudicated as being mentally ill, the NRA is totally OK with that.
Due process means a trial. If someone murders a bunch of people the NRA will not necessarily back their 2A rights.
Wait, did the NRA just do something that wasn’t shitty for once? Broken clocks, amr?
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Is the NRA normally transphobic? They defend gun rights. This threatens gun rights.
I assume many of their members are transphobic but I think they care more about gun rights.
Exactly the organization itself is doing whatI expect it to do.
Wow. Can anyone say “unconstitutional, but who’s gonna stop him?”
