Hahaha. You’re even dumber than I thought. “Yup. Only been five mass shootings in Murca since 2023.” Case closed, Inspector Smoothbrain!
I don’t have time to do the math for you, but in the decade preceding and including the Hale incident, only 4 mass shooters identified as trans or nonbinary. That represented less than a tenth of a percent of all mass shooters during the period. A researcher at Columbia had a higher figure: a massive 1.3%!
This incident is one more. Even assuming no mass shootings occurred between the Hale event and this one (surely not accurate, but the assumption favors your case), that one additional data point wouldn’t move the needle.
Now, let’s talk about men generally. According to the Rockefeller Institute, 95% of mass shooters are male. Considering men represent slightly less than half of the US population, this is astounding. Men are nearly 20x more likely to perpetrate a mass shooting compared to women.
So tell me: if you wanted to most effectively reduce mass shootings by eliminating just one demographic category, which one would you pick?