Posted on 03/30/2023 1:25:22 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Moments after the assailant who killed six people at a Nashville private school was identified as transgender, a baseless narrative emerged: that there has been an incredible rise in transgender or nonbinary mass shooters in recent years.
Some pundits and political influencers on social media went further, suggesting that movements for trans rights are radicalizing activists into terrorists.
The data tells a different story, according to gender and criminology experts. Mass casualty shootings perpetrated by someone identifying as trans or nonbinary are rare, and in fact, those groups are far more likely to be the victims of violence. Here’s a closer look at the facts.
CLAIM: Four recent shootings show there has been an “incredible rise” in transgender or nonbinary mass shooters in the past few years, making the group “by far the largest group committing as a percentage of the population.”
Donald Trump Jr. spread the narrative widely on Twitter, claiming the supposed “incredible rise” and later saying there was a clear trend forming. The idea was amplified by hundreds of other social media users. Trump Jr. did not respond to a request for comment.
THE FACTS: While specific data on transgender and nonbinary mass shooters can be hard to isolate, available information shows that the overwhelming majority of assailants in mass shootings are cisgender males.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
An AP “fact”?
That’s akin to “woke” math.
Ass press stoutly defending The Narrative. Predictable.
Where ‘incredible’ is defined as ‘the ap don’t care how much of an increase has happened and is glad it is happening.’
But we do have a rise in “trans genders” whereas just a few years ago they were rarely mentioned and rarely seen.
Now it’s a gdamn epidemic.
It’s the Ass Press; the same organization that wouldn’t/couldn’t recognize facts if they bit them on the ASS!
American Pravda........................
But, but if only a Timothy McVeigh type had shot up a bunch of minority kids, AP would be talking about huge increases in hate crimes and shooting incidents.
They indeed are a very small part of the number of shooters, and such a small sample size isn’t very good at establishing trends, but most of the rest of the article is pretty mangled and mixes rates and raw numbers with an expanding but still small minority.
They are plooging so hard!!
. . . yet. . . .
Well tomorrow is tranny vengeance day (for what l don’t know) so let’s see what tomorrow brings.
I believe it is actually only three over the last few years that are self described as nonbinary...over literally thousands of these types of events.
“Mass casualty shootings perpetrated by someone identifying as trans or nonbinary are rare...”
And “trans hate” and “trans discrimination” is even more rare.
“They are plooging so hard!!”
Love that word. Let’s see some good folks provide some funny lefty-triggering definitions for it. Please.
:)
Are not the gang wars in Chicago considered part of the “mass shootings” statistics?
If so, then I doubt if very many of the shooters are not normal.
But if we’re talking about school shootings and the like, then the picture is very different.
“Mass casualty shootings perpetrated by someone identifying as trans or nonbinary are rare”
“Mass casualty shootings” are rare, period.
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