Uh, how about we enforce red flag laws already on the books before going after a whole group of people that are statistically .000000001% of gun owners? And who gets to decide which people get to have guns? I've got extensive experience and training dealing with acute and chronic mentally ill people. We need Red Flag Laws to be enforced. Full Stop.
Past that, laws really don't matter in the long run. Bad guys really don't go along with them and they only affect the law abiding. This proposal is nothing more than yet another attack on a marginalized group disguised as "doing something" about a problem that literally is non-existent.
My ¢2 - Take it for what it is worth.
1) Red Flag laws have proven to have all too often been used nefariously versus for truly necessary situations. And the unfairly afflicted sometimes spend thousands of dollars fighting to get their collection returned to them. More often then not, they are unsuccessful because the firearms have "disappeared" or were destroyed.
2) Without an enormous amount of data analyzation of information that isn't supposed to exist, or to be available legally, I question the integrity of your proposed .000000001% "statistic."
3) I too have "extensive experience" dealing with acute and chronically mentally ill people. I would really love to hear your thoughts as to how Red Flag laws would apply to people that shouldn't own, or have access to firearms to begin with.
Generally applicable to comments made by others within the thread:
"In the DSM-III (1980), the diagnosis "transsexualism" was introduced. This diagnosis was later changed to "Gender Identity Disorder" (GID) in the DSM-IV (1994). GID remained in the DSM-5 (2013), but with significant changes.
The DSM-5 removed the diagnosis of GID and replaced it with "Gender Dysphoria". This change reflected a shift in understanding and recognition of transgender individuals. Gender Dysphoria focuses on the distress and discomfort experienced by individuals whose gender identity does not align with their assigned sex, rather than on the individuals themselves as being disordered.
It's important to note that the removal of GID from the DSM does not mean that transgender individuals are no longer considered to have a medical condition. Gender Dysphoria remains a diagnosis that can be used to describe the distress associated with gender incongruence. However, it is not a diagnosis that is used to pathologize or stigmatize transgender individuals."
Now, current day transgenderism is very different from the good ole "Drag Queens" of the 70s. Most of the "drag queens" were openly homosexual but did not believe they were born in the wrong body. Being a drag queen was more of a statement than a belief.
"Affirming" transgenderism leads to further confusion and internal strife for those, more particularly in the youth, who endure this horrible mental affliction. Parents and government that support this "affirming care" exasperate this strife and confusion.
No matter how you choose to slice the cake, there is an XX, XY, and in rare instances, XXY (Klinefelter syndrome) human chromosomal structure. No amount of gender affirming care can fix or change that.
All of that being said, ANYTIME we allow our government to broadly impact anyone's 2A rights, we actively participated in stepping onto the slippery slope. The next president might be Muslim. Do you think the Christians stand a chance of retaining their 2A rights? This progresses to people of color, short people, bald people, on and on goes the merry-go-round until "out of my cold, dead fingers" becomes a reality.