It isn’t rare at when you look look at the percentage of the population. Trans people are more likely to go on A mass shooting.
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awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 months agoI think noting a shooter is trans is noteworthy because it’s very rare and may be related to their motive.
But otherwise I generally agree with your statement. Worth nothing that the US Department of Homeland Security has considered right wing extremists the biggest terrorist threat to the US for many years.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 months ago
According to another users comment below:
Of those, “the number of known suspects in mass shootings which are trans is under 10 for the last decade,” which translated to “1:880 [or 0.11%] of the 4,400 shootings” they recorded, he said.
For the US, “About 1.03% of the nation’s adult population identifies as transgender, according to the Household Pulse Survey.”
So it seems people who aren’t trans are approximately ten times more likely to go on a mass shooting. Am I missing something?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yes. Since they are less than 1% of the population. We should rarely if even see a trans person in a mass shooting. Yet that isn’t the case.
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Did you read my comment? Are you an LLM?
MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
And why should I care what some government jerkoffs decide the narrative is?
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Because they’re experts instead of anonymous social media accounts.
MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Oh wow, they’re expert jerkoffs.
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yes, they’re certainly experts. They get payed good money for work in highly competitive positions. They have specialized educations focused on this issue, plus tens of thousands of hours working on it professionally.
Vs anonymous social media accounts.