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Obviously, a military career is not being pitched to the right audience, else there would be no need of even entertaining the notion that the so-called “Gender dysphoria” demographic could be somehow trained into being good reliable soldiers.

This goes back to another aspect of the culture and how it relates to possession of weapons. As a route to ending “gun violence” in our citizenry, it should be made mandatory that ALL children enrolled in school be introduced to the care, feeding grooming and proper respect for the potential inherent dangers of misuse of projectile weapons. As of the present, a great deal of effort in education is directed at declaring ALL guns as evil, when a lifeless and non-sentient device is neither good not evil.

But the demystification of hand weapons, and the instruction of how to identify, disassemble, clean, reassemble, load and fire such a device, and the proper selection of target, framing that target, aim and correct reaction to the recoil of the weapon, then the re-aiming and repeated firing at target to develop a degree of accuracy and familiarity, are all good and proper use of our educational system.

This way, there is a vastly much larger pool of potential recruits to military and law enforcement services, and as a collateral bonus, those who, through either habitual carelessness or those with malice in mind, may be much more quickly identified, and NEVER allowed access to guns of any kind. Along with the perpetually timid, these persons would be steered into means of defending themselves from assault by those who really do have malicious intent. Either by retreat, sheltering oneself in place, or the more courageous steps of distracting or even direct assault on the active shooter, these additional skills may turn the balance much more quickly than is often the case now.

As it is, a surprisingly large proportion (may be even MORE than half) of Americans have no real concept of the serious intent behind the Second Amendment.