{"id":94198,"date":"2025-09-07T22:14:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94198"},"modified":"2025-09-07T22:14:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:14:37","slug":"trans-arms-for-petes-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/09\/07\/trans-arms-for-petes-sake\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Arms For Pete&#8217;s Sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cI\u2019m not ruling it out.&nbsp; I\u2019m not saying no,<br \/>\nbut I\u2019m also not saying yes.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Eric Trump<\/strong>\u2019s response when asked if he would run for president in 2028.&nbsp;<br \/>\nAs if there\u2019s gonna be an election in 2028.<\/span><\/span><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re in a time when the inconceivable happens on a daily basis.&nbsp; And yet, I am still shocked.&nbsp; I inexplicably found myself watching <em>CNN <\/em>when I heard the news that the <em>Department of Justice <\/em>is considering banning transgender people from owning guns.&nbsp; The excuse for this is the shooting in a Minneapolis church that was allegedly perpetrated by a trans woman.&nbsp; This made me wonder \u2013 exactly how many crazed trans people are shooting people?&nbsp; Being a stickler for stats, I can tell you \u2013 since 1966, the number of mass shootings by trans people is less than one percent.&nbsp; &nbsp;Admittedly, that number goes up a smidge if you consider people who have been in <strong>Jodie Foster <\/strong>movies.&nbsp; I looked further and found that the mass shootings committed by women are less than four percent.&nbsp; Seems to me, the solution is to take guns away from men. &nbsp;But I\u2019m no expert&#8230;or casting director.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Days later, I read something even more implausible.&nbsp; <strong>Tucker Carlson <\/strong>(who has a lifetime subscription to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>) accused <strong>Pete Buttigieg <\/strong>of secretly being straight!&nbsp; Yes, he believes Mayor Pete is pretending to be gay to help his political career.&nbsp; Isn\u2019t that a kick?&nbsp; Being gay can actually help you win an election \u2013 or at least Tucker believes so, and who would argue with him?&nbsp; Other than <strong>Ann Coulter <\/strong>(see the previous item).&nbsp; So, riddle me this \u2013 how would Tucker prove such a thing?&nbsp; He\u2019d like to sit down with Pete and ask him specific questions about his sex life.&nbsp; How kinky!&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to interview him.&nbsp; He\u2019s never agreed to an interview, but I\u2019m gonna ask him like some very specific questions about gay sex and see if he can even answer.&nbsp; I doubt he even knows.\u201d&nbsp; Which begs the question \u2013 how much does Tucker know?&nbsp; Oh, that nasty boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m not ruling it out.&nbsp; I\u2019m not saying no, but I\u2019m also not saying yes.\u201d \u2013 Eric Trump\u2019s response when asked if he would run for president in 2028.&nbsp; As if there\u2019s gonna be an election in 2028. We\u2019re in a time when the inconceivable happens on a daily basis.&nbsp; And yet, I am still<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94207,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94198\/revisions\/94207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}