Fact Check: Majority of US mass shooters are cis men, not transgender or non-binary people (FLASHBACK 2023)

Reuters ^ | 03 31 2023 | Fact Checking Staff

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LIST OF PERPETRATORS

The posts mention a “Nashville shooter,” which appears to reference the recent school shooting at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 27, where the suspect, identified as Audrey Elizabeth Hale by police, reportedly identified as transgender (here).

The “Colorado Springs shooter” refers to Anderson Lee Aldrich, who is accused of a killing five people at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in November 2022, and whose lawyers have asserted identifies as non-binary and prefers they/them pronouns (here). (Skepticism over Aldrich’s assertion has since arisen, with extremism experts and people who knew the shooter weighing in, more on that here ).

The “Denver shooter” in the posts refers to a shooting at a charter school in Denver, Colorado, in May 2019. Alec McKinney, a transgender teenager, was sentenced to life in prison following the shooting, Reuters reported at the time (here).

The “Aberdeen shooter” appears to reference Snochia Moseley, the suspect of a shooting at a Rite Aid Corp facility in Aberdeen, Maryland (here). Some news reports said Moseley identified as transgender (bit.ly/3ZpwMMQ), (bit.ly/3LX7DWF).

NOT THE MAJORITY

Calculating exact percentages when it comes to mass shooting statistics in the U.S. varies by way of counting, as organizations define mass shootings in different ways.

A spokesperson for The Violence Project, which records data on mass shootings in the U.S. since 1966 with “four or more” people killed in public (here), told Reuters via email that “Nashville is the first case of a trans” perpetrator in their database and per their methodology. They sent Reuters a database of shootings with 190 entries.

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Not only are a disproportionate number of mass shooters self-described “transgenders,” a disproportionate number of serial murderers over the past century were homosexual. Highly disproportionate.

[Varda]

Exactly. What this news story is trying to do is lie with statistics. The risk is determined by population size compared to the number of events.
The risk factor is very high with these mentally ill trannies and very low with normal people.

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Fact Check: The majority of mass shooters are mentally ill.