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Transgender mass shooters bring trans gun groups into focus: ‘Armed queers don’t get bashed’
New York Post ^ | Feb. 19, 2026 | Rikki Schlott

Posted on 02/19/2026 3:21:12 PM PST by nickcarraway

wo 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.

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KEYWORDS: domesticterrorism; domesticterrorists; freaks; freaksversusnormals; guns; secondamendment; trannymurdertrend; transexcusepeddlers; transgender; transmassmurderers; transmassshooters; transviolence; trumpsupporter

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This makes for a weird Venn Diagram.
1 posted on 02/19/2026 3:21:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

It would appear everyone with a trans-crazy in their lives needs to stay armed and have body armor.


2 posted on 02/19/2026 3:23:22 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: nickcarraway

As a FFL licensed person and business man, I have the right to refuse to do business with anyone I deem an undesirable customer. Even if they could pass a NICS check. Mentally unstable is a “no-go” sign to me. Anyone who can pee passed his testicles and thinks he a woman is a lunatic and won’t buy a firearm from me, period. There are other lines I won’t cross during a sale. That’s just the way I roll.


3 posted on 02/19/2026 3:36:14 PM PST by Equine1952 (MM1SS SASOB)
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To: nickcarraway
Who is (or has been) attacking transgender individuals? Give some incidents. Anyone attacking them just because they are transgender should be prosecuted like anyone else for assault, etc.. I do not know of ANY widespread attacks on transgenders. I have, however, read repeated stories of them shooting many individuals. Seems like they play the victim card and then go kill someone.

Now, the threats are direct, "Criticize us in any way, and we'll kill you." If Christians did that to people, mobs would kill us and burn our houses down. We are NOT doing that to them, nor advocating for such. Where is this coming from? It has to be the drugs they are taking.

4 posted on 02/19/2026 3:37:02 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Equine1952

My present FFL has the same point of view and my previous, just-retired FFL had the SAME point of view. They have a right to refuse to sell a gun to anyone they deem to be dangerous. Transgenders can not force people to interact with them, but that does not excuse assaults on them. All of this threatening needs to be brought to a halt - pass a law to that effect. You threaten, you go to jail. Thought that was already on the books...


5 posted on 02/19/2026 3:39:31 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: nickcarraway

bump


6 posted on 02/19/2026 3:39:53 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Yesterday only comes one time. —Sorrells Pickard)
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To: nickcarraway

I have a problem with the conflation of ‘transgender’ and ‘queer’.

A lot of the people we’ve traditionally designated - and who have self-identified - as ‘queer’ want nothing to do with the ‘transgender’ stuff. Lesbians have often especially felt this way, as they resent their spaces being invaded by biological males.


7 posted on 02/19/2026 3:40:16 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: nickcarraway

Weird folks do weird things.

Homo’s are weird.

But that’s OK. Today we actively try to recruit them into positions of public trust, give them security clearances, pass them on the poly (not a discriminator), let them adopt children... Heck, being a homo makes you qualified to be the secretary of the air force under Obama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Fanning Or undersecretary for the Department of Energy at 25: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Brinton (He likes to take other ladies’ luggage - did I say weird people do weird things?). There’s this guy to, a shining example of why we should hand out TS clearances to homos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning

America is a fashionable place. In 1970 you could have gotten your ass beat for being homo. In 2011 they would applaud you for your courage when coming out. In 2010 society basically took young adults already asking questions and confused and screwing them up more all in an attempt to not suppress some underlying identity in a 12-year-old.

I’m glad the homo thing is finally dying off.

It was very annoying.


8 posted on 02/19/2026 3:46:05 PM PST by Red6
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

According to FBI stats, around 22-24 trans people are murdered per year, mostly black sex workers(killed by black customers). The rest usually involved in drug dealing. High risk behaviors, not necessarily because they are trans. Yet these troons spin each other up with fear porn about genocide until they lash out violently.


9 posted on 02/19/2026 3:52:44 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Who in the hell is assaulting trans genders? They are the lunatics doing the shootings.


10 posted on 02/19/2026 4:10:37 PM PST by Equine1952 (MM1SS SASOB)
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To: nickcarraway

‘Armed queers don’t get bashed’

But they seem to bash a lot of kiddos.


11 posted on 02/19/2026 4:18:07 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: nickcarraway

Transgenders the democrats favorite Murders , they even want to give them an Official Flag and Special Rights


12 posted on 02/19/2026 4:23:06 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t have a problem with anyone who wants to protect themselves with a firearm. But I have a big problem with selling firearms to mentally ill persons.

Unfortunately the Venn Diagram for trans and mentally ill is a 99% overlap.


13 posted on 02/19/2026 4:38:45 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: Equine1952

Thank you. Common sense goes a long way. I thought the “progressives” promoted Red Flag laws to thwart catastrophes. I have noticed they don’t enforce such laws smdh


14 posted on 02/19/2026 4:41:29 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

The trans folks , as are most left leaning members of society, are perpetual victims. They create their own drama , perpetuate their own misery and eventually, when the problems they create arent rectified by society in general, people have to learn lessons via protests, online breakdowns or mass killings.


15 posted on 02/19/2026 4:48:09 PM PST by MrRelevant
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To: Equine1952
Who in the hell is assaulting trans genders? They are the lunatics doing the shootings.

I think the answer lies in their definition of "assaulting," which includes someone using the wrong pronoun while addressing them, or talking about them with a third party.

16 posted on 02/19/2026 4:52:35 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Assualt the 💩oughta me calling me names. Pull a freaking gun I will do my best to kill the hell out of you. EOS


17 posted on 02/19/2026 5:11:25 PM PST by Equine1952 (MM1SS SASOB)
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To: ConservativeMind

That’s the world we’re living in, sadly.


18 posted on 02/19/2026 5:34:10 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: nickcarraway

It is said that the Pawtucket shooter had close ties with the leftist fascist democrat Maine gubnatorial candidate Graham Platner who has been training antifa in Maine.


19 posted on 02/19/2026 5:43:13 PM PST by Chickensoup
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