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The Department of Justice is reportedly considering a broad range of options for blocking transgender-identifying people from obtaining firearms, just one week after a horrific attack on a Minnesota Catholic school left two children dead and many others injured.
According to a report from the Daily Wire, a source inside the DOJ has alleged that the agency is considering a ban on firearms purchasing for transgender individuals suffering from gender dysphoria.
From the report:
“The DOJ’s discussions center on the fact that those who identify as transgender suffer from gender dysphoria, a mental disorder, the DOJ source familiar with the conversations shared with The Daily Wire. Gender dysphoria describes the sense of unease that a man or woman may feel if he or she thinks that their biological sex is mismatched with their so-called gender identity.”
The shooting in Minnesota last week was allegedly perpetrated by a male individual who, at one time, identified himself as a woman. In 2023, another transgender-identifying person also carried out a terrible shooting at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee.
As reported by RSBN, the shooter in Tennessee had allegedly been undergoing treatment for an “emotional disorder” and had somehow managed to stockpile an assortment of weapons.
It has begged the question: how do these individuals, who are allegedly critically unstable, repeatedly manage to get their hands on high-level weaponry?
According to the Daily Wire, an unnamed spokesman at the DOJ said Attorney General Pam Bondi was considering a “range of options to prevent mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, especially at schools.”
Additionally, last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that his agency, in coordination with the NIH, would be launching studies into the “potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence.”
Whether the DOJ will act on such a potential ban remains to be seen. The agency has not officially confirmed this report.