Posted on 02/20/2026 7:04:15 AM PST by V_TWIN
Two high-profile shootings carried out by transgender individuals in the span of less than a week have sparked fears about a perceived uptick in violence from the community.
On February 10th, an 18-year-old transgender shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, gunned down his mother and stepbrother before killing six others at a school in British Columbia, Canada.
Then on Monday, Robert Dorgan, who also identified as Roberta Esposito, opened fire at a Pawtucket, Rhode Island, ice rink where his son was playing hockey, killing two family members and then himself.
Before his attack, Dorgan wrote online, “I’m a gun fanatic transwoman; i use tampons for the hell of it. Don’t light my fuse,” according to reporting by Andy Ngo.
The shooter also tweeted, “Keep bashing us. But do not wonder why we Go BESERK.”
A video attributed to the group “Pink Pistols Pittsburgh” showed a trans person loading a pistol at a firing range and saying: “I was inspired to no longer just be prey.”
The founders of the group speak in the video, saying: “After the election in November, things started to feel a bit more urgent, when we realized that we couldn’t necessarily rely on the government to enforce laws to protect our safety.
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Obviously these people are delusional, but not why you would think.
When's the last time you heard of a so called trans person being attacked in any way?
They are the ones unprovoked ambushing people in churches and schools.
And democrats are currently drafting a "transitioning bill of rights".....SMH
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I’m all for the 2nd, but these people should be in mental asylums, not walking around armed.
Why do so many elementary school children bash Transgenders? If they would only stop tyranny bashing, the shooting of school children would stop. /s
A community would be well served if a public data base existed that clearly identified self identified transgenders who have been granted a gun license , purchased a gun or lived in a household that had legal firearms. Already know they are dangerous. Knowing that they are armed may save lives.
The majority of violence against queers is by other queers. And yet they shoot non-queers.
I’m going to go against the grain here. First, there are a lot of mentally ill trangender people who have axes to grind and who are dangerous. IF they are walking around with guns, watch out. But it also is true that, in the past, gay people were attacked and beaten for being gay. There is a lot of unreported “black on gay” attacks in cities where the gay people are just walking down the street, minding their own business and they are attacked. Any vulnerable person - gay, female, transgender - who is at risk of being attacked has the right to defend themselves with a gun. Especially in the city.
I predict they will find out
I have a strong suspicion that TPTB/Big Pharma are manipulating the narrative to get the focus away from drugs such as SSRIs. Not disputing that transgenders have a mental disorder but they were generally harmless until they got co-opted into the Marxist/Progressive/Liberal/Democrat agenda. Back in the 90’s I employed two of them. The thing is there have always been transgenders and only recently has the narrative focused on the violent acts. But we have had significant mass shooters before they became a thing and most of them, all the way back to Columbine have some connection to the use of psychiatric doping and any investigation into it has always been successfully avoided or deflected. I suspect the transgender shooters are a subset of psychiatric drug users who were unstable to begin with.
“Trans gun GROUPS”????? I am still wondering about those...
Yeah, when is the news going to pay attention to THAT!!!
It's simple. eg... My AK-47 identifies as a pellet gun.
Armed people dont get bashed.
But they will start getting shot a lot.
Has ANYONE heard what type rifle was used at the Canada school shooting? No info at all. If it was a AR-15 it would have been all over the news but after a week-—nothing!
Only photo I saw was a distant shot of a firearm that looked like a common wood stocked hunting rifle.
There is a group called “Zizians” who shot a border patrolman in Vermont not long ago. The news media hid it for over a week till the story burst forth about this group of trannies doing this.
https://www.newsweek.com/who-are-zizians-radical-trans-cult-ties-border-agent-killing-2024308
Oh lovely.../s
Let’s see, take a mentally unstable person, feed them immense quantities of hormones and psychiatric drugs, chop off various body parts and then act surprised when they start killing people? Yeah, who could have seen that coming?
I don't consider your comment to be "going against the grain", but I'd include "straight, male, etc." as being just as vulnerable, especially in the city. I lived in Philly in the 1970's when it was relatively safe to walk through most parts of the city, but not others, at least in daytime. These days I won't even drive through it.
All American citizens have 2nd Amendment rights, and we have to be very careful in deciding who's sane vs. who's insane enough to lose those rights for that reason. Red flag, slippery slope, all that stuff.
A person doesn't have to be gay, female, or transgender to be dangerously insane. And frankly, the majority of the many gay and female people I know are sane. I don't know that many transgender people, and they do seem to tend to the loopy a good bit more than average, but that might just be because they're all Democrats.
The mental asylums have been gone since the 60s; we need to re-build LOTS of them, and ‘summer camps’, to house (and disappear) the leftists and libtards.
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