A recent Timcast IRL episode erupted into fierce debate when Christian nationalist Joel Webbon claimed transgender people receiving hormone therapy are “chemically engineered ticking time bombs” who should be banned from owning firearms.
Pastor Joel faced immediate pushback from attorney “Pisco” who demanded evidence for the inflammatory claim. The exchange quickly exposed a glaring double standard in the guest’s reasoning.
When Pisco asked whether Christian nationalist mass shooters exist, Webbon refused to give a straight answer. He insisted each shooter’s ideology would need individual review before applying that label.
Yet moments earlier, he had no problem making sweeping claims about all transgender people on hormone therapy.
“You’re making categorical claims about trans people but won’t acknowledge a category of Christian nationalist shooters without case-by-case analysis,” Pisco pointed out during the heated exchange.
Host Tim Pool jumped in with his own controversial take. He argued the Second Amendment protects “the people” without exception.
If society wants to restrict certain groups from gun ownership, Pool said, it needs to amend the Constitution rather than create legal carve-outs.
Pool’s absolutist stance went so far that he suggested even people with severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia should retain gun rights under the Constitution. This prompted pushback from Webbon himself, who argued some mental health diagnoses should disqualify people from firearm ownership.
The back-and-forth shows a growing tension in conservative circles about who deserves Second Amendment protections. Federal law already prohibits certain groups from owning guns, including people involuntarily committed for mental illness and those under specific domestic violence restraining orders. The Supreme Court upheld some of these restrictions as recently as 2024.
No federal law currently restricts gun ownership based on transgender status or gender-affirming medical care. Major medical organizations like the American Psychiatric Association consider hormone therapy an evidence-based treatment that improves mental health outcomes for people with gender dysphoria.
Mass shooting data shows perpetrators are overwhelmingly male and cisgender. While a tiny number of incidents have involved transgender or nonbinary individuals, they represent a minuscule fraction of overall cases according to databases like The Violence Project.
Webbon, who openly identifies as a Christian nationalist through his Right Response Ministries platform, advocates integrating Christian principles into government. Pisco regularly appears on political streams to debate legal and policy issues.
Neither Pisco nor Webbon provided peer-reviewed evidence during the segment to support their respective positions on transgender people and violence. The debate ended without resolution, highlighting the deep divides in how different political camps view constitutional rights and public safety.
