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Ramrouser said:
I merely correctly answered the poster's question of "who shoots up a hockey game?" I have no particular interest in or obsession with trans people.

100% no one (other than Zen) would have mentioned that very relevant fact had I not. Even members of this Board now finally admitting there seems to be an issue with trans mass shooters when before you were ignoring the issue and, in the case of the Biden administration, trying to bury it.
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Actually, given the evidence, it seems there is an issue with white, male (cis-gendered) mass shooters.
 
TangledUpInBlue06 said:
www.factcheck.org

Few Mass Shooters Have Been Transgender - FactCheck.org

Q: Have many of the mass shooters been transgender? A: The number of transgender mass shooters in the U.S. varies depending on how “mass shooting” is defined, but is relatively small. The Gun Violence Archive, which uses a broader definition, lists five mass shootings by transgender or...
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The Gun Violence Archive, an independent organization that tracks gun-related violence in the U.S., defines mass shootings as incidents in which there are “a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident.” Under this standard, there were 5,748 mass shootings between Jan. 1, 2013, and Sept. 15, 2025, according to the GVA. “OF THAT NUMBER OF INCIDENTS, there have been FIVE CONFIRMED Transgender shooters,” Mark Bryant, the GVA’s founding executive director, told us in an email.​
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The five mass shootings in the GVA’s database with a transgender shooting suspect are the August shooting in Minneapolis, the March 2023 shooting at a school in Nashville, the November 2022 shooting at a gay bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the May 2019 shooting at a school in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, and the September 2018 shooting at a warehouse in Aberdeen, Maryland. However, Anderson Lee Aldrich, the convicted shooter in Colorado Springs, identified as nonbinary, according to Aldrich’s lawyer. A transgender individual identifies with a gender that does not match their sex assigned at birth, while a nonbinary individual identifies as neither exclusively male nor female. While many nonbinary individuals identify as transgender, not all do, the Human Rights Campaign says.​
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Overall, Bryant said the number of transgender mass shooters could be as high as eight, if some individuals whose gender identity hasn’t yet been verified are included. That would still mean that transgender individuals were responsible for less than 0.1% of mass shootings in the last 12 years, according to the GVA. (It would be less than 0.2% of incidents from 2018 until now.)​
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The GVAs definition of mass shooting is overly broad and does not coincide with what most people consider to be a “mass shooting.” It includes an overwhelming amount of gang/drug related and domestic violence. The FBI’s definition is much better.
 
ZZLPHeels said:
The GVAs definition of mass shooting is overly broad and does not coincide with what most people consider to be a “mass shooting.” It includes an overwhelming amount of gang/drug related and domestic violence. The FBI’s definition is much better.
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The link also includes data based on a more restrictive definition:

The Violence Prevention Project at Hamline University defines a mass shooting as “four or more people shot and killed, excluding the shooter, in a public location, with no connection to underlying criminal activity, such as gangs or drugs.” By that more restrictive measure, the project’s mass shooter database identifies 201 mass shooters between 1966 and 2024, and only one of them – Audrey Hale, the 2023 Nashville school shooting suspect – was transgender, James Densley, the project’s co-founder and deputy director, told us in an email.​
 
Some of Ram's ignorance in this specific instance might come from the fact that a few shooters in the past decade were cross-dressers OR non-binary, not people who had undergone any medical change. The non-binary folks might not have even been gay or cross-dressers, certainly weren't undergoing sex change, simply just didn't want to ID was male or female, and that is a thing we're seeing a little more commonly in younger people. Ram sees the word gay, transvestite or binary and assumes a teen has been pumped full of hormones (In Rhode Island it was a 56 yr old).
 
gregh1 said:
Some of Ram's ignorance in this specific instance might come from the fact that a few shooters in the past decade were cross-dressers OR non-binary, not people who had undergone any medical change. The non-binary folks might not have even been gay or cross-dressers, certainly weren't undergoing sex change, simply just didn't want to ID was male or female, and that is a thing we're seeing a little more commonly in younger people.
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Au contraire.

Ram's ignorance comes from his media diet, which exists to feed his prejudices.

End of story.
 
Ramrouser said:
I merely correctly answered the poster's question of "who shoots up a hockey game?" I have no particular interest in or obsession with trans people.

100% no one (other than Zen) would have mentioned that very relevant fact had I not. Even members of this Board now finally admitting there seems to be an issue with trans mass shooters when before you were ignoring the issue and, in the case of the Biden administration, trying to bury it.
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It is not a relevant fact that the shooter was trans (and we don't even know if that's true in this case). I merely pointed out that if there is an increase in trans shooters, it has nothing to do with being trans, and everything to do with the factors that predict mass shootings.
 
superrific said:
Israel? But the more important and better answer is that I didn't claim the pattern to be universal. to say that one should expect violence is not to say that it will necessarily arrive.
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I was referring to Jews. Israel, as a whole, can't really react to a situation the way an individual would.

The contrast between Jews, who are, historically, probably the most hated group on the planet, and transgender women is pretty stark.
 
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Outlier. Most trans shooters have been young. Canadian shooter was 18.
 
Ramrouser said:
Outlier. Most trans shooters have been young. Canadian shooter was 18.
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That's true. They are not trans men, they are young trans women. It's almost like they have the hormones and aggression of a young male...
 
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