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The right saying trans people shouldn't own guns is a sort of... inversion, of the rhetoric that the left often pushes.
The right believes that the right to own arms is indistinguishable from the right to self defense. The right believes that all people have a right to defend themselves when under unjust attack, whether it be by criminals or the government. The right believes that advocacy for taking away guns is advocacy for making self defense illegal, which isn't particularly unreasonable given the state of some gun-controlling nations.
The left advocates for "Common sense gun laws." They believe that people who they believe to be prone to violence, either against themselves or others, should not have access to guns. And since the left broadly pushes that any type of violent mindset is a result of mental illness and not personal choices or values, and they're liable to label any worldview that is not concordant with theirs as mental illness, the right sees this as an attempt to deprive people they disagree with from the right to self defense.
The more principled right believes that being mentally ill or even violent doesn't mean you don't have a right to self defense. They believe that if you abuse that right, you should be punished to the maximal and most humiliating degree, but your rights shouldn't be subject to the cowardly belief of what you MIGHT do.
But in the spirit of consistency, if mental illness is a disqualifying condition to the right to self defense, then transgenders, who cannot be described as anything but mentally ill by any reasonable person, should not be allowed to have guns.
The left tosses around "Mentally ill shouldn't have guns," and the right responds with "Okay, transgenders shouldn't have any guns either, because they're obviously mentally ill." It's agreeing with them in a way that immediately pisses them off by using their own logic against them.
