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In case anyone's in any doubt about whether there's any factual basis for this:
Mass shooters are not disproportionately transgender, contrary to claims
This CNN article states it well:
That's it. This is just the fascists finding another way to victimize trans people, because they enjoy doing that and it keeps the morons' attention diverted from real problems.
And this bit is also good in the article (warning: disgusting quotes from Trump admin people):
That's surprisingly nuanced and well informed for an article on a mainstream news site.
From what I understand, people with mental disorders (e.g. taking anti-anxiety meds) can still own guns. The threshold for being disallowed is if the person has been involuntarily institutionalized. So even if you have some kind of mental health crisis and check yourself in, that's voluntary so it doesn't prohibit you. It sounds hard to fit gender dysphoria into that framework.
OTOH apparently you're prohibited if you've used pot in the past year, so maybe they'll expand that to include vaccinations.
The logical direction this is going is that they want to do something bad and Nazi-ish to trans people. I hope it doesn't go that far, but they're rounding up other people already so people need to be ready for a fight.
And it won't stop at trans people like the "normal gays" seem to think everyone on the LGBTQ+ spectrum should be ready to flee/fight ASAP.
The way I look at it is: this isn't just trans people's battle. They just happen to have found themselves on the frontline of a war that's coming for everyone, so we all need to fight this together. If trans people lose rights, those are rights everyone else has lost too, because they're now a matter of the fascists' discretion so not really rights at all. If you're not their chosen victim today you may be tomorrow, and fascists' victim lists have no end but grow and grow. So it's for all of us to fight for trans rights today, because the attack on trans people is an attack on all people and we're in this together.
I would bet though that most made shooters are white though. Better male it so white people can't have guns...
Well lookie there, I was right
https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/
Lol it's worse than that.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/476445/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-gender/
I wonder if there's a similar split for regular shootings rather than mass shootings.
No shit though?
You look at the largest racial population and wonder why it represents the highest raw number figure?
Looking at your source... (and taking population percentages from here... https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/population-and-demographics/our-changing-population/)
White: 54.2% while representing 58.9% of the population
Black: 16.8% while representing 12.6% of the population
Latino: 7.7% while representing 19.1% of the population
Asian: 6.5% while representing 6.1% of the population
Native American: 1.9% while representing 0.7% of the population
The white population overall under represents per capita mass shootings. You SHOULD expect white people to make up the majority. They ARE the majority.