Gun Culture

[KidTDragon]

Looks like the "Too Soon to Talk about Gun Control" counter has been reset again (not that it ever expires).

Minneapolis shooting: 8-year-old and 10-year-old killed, 17 others hurt at Catholic school

An 8-year-old and 10-year-old were shot and killed when a gunman fired shots through the windows of a church at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Ceir]

But, but all our Thoughts And Prayers! Surely that will work in lieu of regulating the industry and - yes - making it more difficult for people to get their hands on massacre-capable weapons instead of less!

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

 

[Ceir]

Working just as well as it has since the School Shooting Crisis began in 1999!

 

[Dekafox]

Amid reports the Justice Department is weighing banning transgender people from owning firearms in response to last month’s mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church, the National Rifle Association said Friday it will oppose any blanket rule that limits Second Amendment rights.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/politics/nra-transgender-gun-control

Annoyance and/or paywall free: https://archive.is/nwNJp

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Their wording specifies "law-abiding citizens". So, as soon as the Greedy Obstructive Pedophiles get around to declaring trans people illegal.......

 

[NovaSaber]

Didn't Nazi Germany ban Jews specifically from owning guns right before the jive hit the fan?

 

[wonko the sane?]

There were enough jews in germany at that point that they actually put up a fight when threatened. There aren't enough trans people in the world, never mind the US alone, to make a resistance movement when combined.

It's political theatrics to distract from something trump doesn't want to deal with. When he's threatening to take the guns away from black people, or republicans: then the shits about to hit the fan.

 

[Ungnome]

There were enough jews in germany at that point that they actually put up a fight when threatened. There aren't enough trans people in the world, never mind the US alone, to make a resistance movement when combined.

It's political theatrics to distract from something trump doesn't want to deal with. When he's threatening to take the guns away from black people, or republicans: then the shits about to hit the fan.

Yea. Pretty much this. There's MAYBE 2 million trans people in the US and that's including those who are still more or less closeted, like me, out of around 350 million people. It's one of the things that makes it easy to scapegoat us, unfortunately. There's been TWO incidents of a trans person committing a mass shooting over the past few years and in both cases there were circumstances OUTSIDE of their gender that likely played a bigger roll in them doing what they did. The most recent one had gotten sucked into the alt-right pipeline, which is much more likely to result in someone turning to violence than being trans ever could. They never want to bring up the fact that a trans person is roughly 4 times more likely to be a VICTIM of violent crime than your average citizen, though.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

This is bait. He's just hoping Democrats will become discombobulated trying to figure out how strongly to come out in favor of gun rights.

The answer is obvious though. Whether you want stricter gun control or not and to what degree, specifically and openly doing it just for one targeted part of the population like this obviously cannot pass constitutional scrutiny. You can argue against this without referencing the Second Amendment at all.

 

[Pocket]

Watch most mainstream Democrats manage to fumble this easy question anyway.