Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Feb 12 2024 01:50pm)
Right, I mean I guess that's what I'm asking. How many mass shooters are transgender. This says since 2014 about 6 have been transgender.
Out of almost 5000 shooters.
It wouldn't be unreasonable to argue far right advocates are cherry picking shootings that involve transgender shooters.
The first thing is that there has not been ~5000 mass shooters since 2014. The math here is nonsensical - 10 years = 3650 days meaning for that math to work there must be more than one mass shooting per day, which is erroneous. It's likely that this biased source went and looked at ALL shootings, whether they are targeted gang violence or other.
It appears that they're using the GVA definition of a mass shooting, which is not what we're discussing here, we are are discussing targeted mass shootings of innocents or unknown people akin to terrorist attacks. Example from Gun Violence Archive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2022The
majority of mass shooters over the past 2 years have been trans/non-binary whatever. One simply has to go through and tabulate all known mass shooting terrorist attacks (as distinct from any GVA-definition mass shooting) over the past couple of years. There have been atleast 6 in only this short amount of time:
Colorado Springs
Nashville
Aberdeen
Denver
Iowa
and now Lakewood
This post was edited by El1te on Feb 12 2024 04:01pm