The Statistics War Over School Shootings Since Columbine, Especially By Transgender Shooters

American Thinker ^ | September 5, 2025 | Ned Barnett

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Since the horrific Columbine shooting in April 1999, there’ve been a tragic number of American public and religious school shootings. No matter how “experts” gloss over their statistics, if a single death is a tragedy, mass killings are light years beyond “tragedy.”

Having lost a son in high school – not from shooting, but from another life-altering catastrophe – I can only imagine the tidal wave of grief engulfing the family and friends of those lost children.

Much less reported, though nonetheless a tragedy, is that a disproportionate number of these shootings were perpetrated by those who identify as “transgender.” 

Triggered by this latest shooting, I went looking for the real stats, trying to discover how much tragedy is really out there. I sought what most media shy away from. 

As a trained journalist, I dug deep, recalling that:

If you want to know how many school shootings have occurred, just check the stats. 

I’d learned this in J-School: Numbers never lie. Of course, my pre-Watergate profs assumed credible sources had credible numbers.    

Right? Well, maybe. But don’t count on it.

While citing traditionally credible sources, the one that seems most honest in pointing out that nobody knows which stats to refer to as they judge the horrific impact of school shootings, Al Jazeera – a source I never thought I’d cite – said it clearly on August 28, 2025. 

Depending on the database used, there were between 8 and 146 incidents of gun violence at schools across the US in 2025.

The apparently credible sources cited include the U.S. Census.

There are many sources that seem credible, but offer vastly differing statistics, sometimes in the same paragraph.  They all can’t be true, so check your own “credible sources,” then decide who to...

[Pontiac]

Factors to study about school shootings – perhaps especially parochial school shootings – is to see how many of them are done by former students with gender dysphoria who have been treated with hormone-altering and other drugs.

With enough accurate information, perhaps the FBI, the local police, the schools and the public can draw some conclusions and begin protecting schools in advance.

I don't discount the hormone blockers but I was reading about the ill effects of SSRI anti-depressants long before Transition Therapy was on the radar.

SSRIs are dangerous drugs that need to be banned. Suicide ideation and murderous impulses are on the fact sheets for these drugs and yet they are prescribed with less thought by doctors than vitamins.

[BFW]

Let's call the corporate drug company's and medical estamlisment out on this. If you are taking any type of drug cocktail that affects, deflects, cusses emotional issues. The police should know.

You are then declared a possible danger to your self and others, as far as the trannys it seems they are a danger to children.

That would be a red rainbow flag law that would be justified.

Justified, in that anyone shooting them down like the rabid animals they are would be "Justified" in doing so.

Ah I'm not if I'm kidding or not.

[CPT Clay]

Bump

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I have one little bone to pick with this one:

“President Biden said “more than 400 school shootings have taken place since Columbine, exposing more than 370,000 US students to gun violence.”

Three Hundred Seventy Thousand.

That’s a far cry from either the 118 shootings in that period, or 400 shootings – dependent on which source is being cited.”

“EXPOSED TO GUN VIOLENCE” is not the same as, “victim of gun violence.” Yeah, they were indirectly exposed. That whole little bit was kind of deceptive.

Aside from that, there isn’t much I’d argue with.