The Morning Rant: Guns, Mental Illness, And "Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy"

Let's start with the obvious: any law that restricts our God-given, natural right to self defense and our ability to combat tyranny needs to be very carefully examined before it is enacted. As the saying goes, "The road to hell is paved with gun-control laws."

The 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution is clear: "Shall not be infringed" is simple and declarative and very difficult to misinterpret.

Yet there are people who should not have access to weapons. That is also clear. Violent felons is a tough one, but more than one felony conviction will do it for me. Notice I wrote "conviction!" Those ridiculous and freedom-stealing "red flag laws" are an affront to our constitution and should be eliminated from our legal system. Confiscation because some angry wife in the middle of a divorce, telling some magistrate that she is afraid of her soon-to-be ex-husband's guns, is not the proper use of government power.

And what about the lunatics? Should they have access to weapons? Let's get even more specific! What about the deeply psychotic body-dysmorphia-suffering transsexual, deep into a poorly-understood regimen of incredibly powerful drugs that are busily tweaking his brain?

Otherwise known as gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) (or sometimes hormone replacement therapy (HRT)). Wow...that's a mouthful! And a big lie. Of course it isn't "affirming" anything; it is destroying the the very way that men and women think and feel and act, and in the process replacing those things with a miasma of competing impulses that the human brain and body is incapable of handling.

No wonder these people attempt suicide at an alarming rate. No wonder they seem terminally angry and sad and manic and depressed...sometimes all at once! We have allowed a psychological disorder to govern its sufferers, instead of treating that disorder and attempting to bring their behaviors back into the range of normal or common or simply functional.

Imagine an otherwise normal 15-year-old girl who sees an obese 250 pound person in the mirror. She begins to starve herself to satisfy her psychologically damaged self-image. Do we celebrate her diet and help her to by smaller clothing? No! We treat her psychosis and, if necessary, compel the issue by force-feeding her. How does that differ from a man looking in the mirror and seeing a woman?

So should society be honest with itself and admit that transsexualism is an issue fraught with danger? That those who suffer from it are a much greater risk to society than most? Should the beginning of GAHT or HRT automatically trigger the equivalent of a red flag law? At least it will be based on some objective criteria rather than the fury of a disgruntled neighbor or spouse!

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posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

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