They also lied by omission stating his weapon had ‘Trump’ written on it implying it was some kind of tribute. It said ‘Kill Trump’ on the rifle and also on the optical device. Slime from top to bottom.
ABC News spoke that claim on the air. "The name of President Trump written on the gun", clearly intended to imply Trump support as strongly as the facts could be twisted to do.
"No evidence the shooter targeted Catholics", said by the same people who endlessly insist that everyone who voted against Barack Obama was motivated by racism.
I have a feeling when I'm shooting indiscriminately throught the windows of the Annunciation during morning Mass that I'm probably targeting Catholics, but that's a stretch for the microcephalics at ABC News.
Yeah, that leftist logic that asserted that fly-over racists who voted for Obama but failed to turn out for Hillary is amongst the most stupid political arguments I’ve ever heard. And they said it out loud; and often.
It is a clear hallmark introducing the ascendency of magical thinking taking over the Dems. And they just cannot let it go. But for the fact that they 1) brought this on themselves and 2) they express these views with zealousness of religious rage… where was I?
It's not a reference to you, Molly. It's an allusion to a Monty Python sketch, The Upper Class Twit of the Year Contest, which is hilarious. What I was saying is that the reporter who said there was no evidence that the gunman targeted Catholics is so dumb he or she would qualify to be in such a contest.
ABC also said his messages were critical of Israel neglecting that what he also wrote that "6,000,000 isn't enough" which pertains not to Israel but, rather, to Jews generally.
The trans community here in Minnesota is obsessed with revenge, porn, guns, and mocking Christianity. I have been submerged in their seriously sick online presence for years until they have abandoned Facebook for twitter than X and now Bluesky. I am not a gamer but Twitch is a platform where they seem to find a lot of support. It’s a cult. It can not be argued to be anything else. It’s the same lonely young males in particular who find a willing audience who rachets up their world view, violent fantasies and AGP. These people should be under some kind of watch. They openly call for violence against women, children and Christians all the time. This is not a 1st Amendment issue. This is a terrorism issue.
The truth is there are plenty of trans folks trying to live their lives, but the disproportionate amount of violence in that community shouldn't be ignored. Is it mental illness associated with the trans condition? Is it depression spawned from the unfortunate condition that leads them to be medicated with SSRIs and antipsychotics, which seem to cause violent tendencies in some people? A little from column A and a little from column B? Testosterone and other hormone supplementation? Hormones mixed with other meds? I've known some pretty aggressive trans people and it seems like more than a 'chip on the shoulder' situation. I've joked that a trans guy (woman? - the male that wants to be female) is like a woman with serious PMS, but man bones and muscles. Scary.
Start with the premise that you have come to believe that you are a different person than your physical body strongly indicates that you are. I would call it psychic disassociation. Not conducive to good mental health, I would think.
And it takes people much more brilliant than the rest of us to point out that women can have penises. Reality be damned, magical thinking offers much more comfort. But, wouldn’t accepting a false reality to deal with an unacceptable but true reality indicate that those agreeing (including the mental health specialists and “allies”) be suffering from the same delusions by proxy?
It wasn't that long ago that the DSM clearly designated this as a disorder: "Gender Identity Disorder."
Lumping this in with gay rights was a massive mistake. In MN it was literally illegal for any mental health professional to gently direct him to recognize that he is, in fact, male. So when you require by law that nothing but "affirmative" mental health support is available to him, he had no chance to get well and learn to accept himself and his reality. This started when he was a minor. Walz and the MN legislature codified the ban on conversion therapy that made it impossible for him to face reality in a therapeutic setting. He stated himself that the fantasy couldn't hold. He wished he hadn't "brainwashed himself" into believing he was trans. He didn't do it alone, the parents, legislators, teachers, activists, and health professionals along the way each did their part to build up a literal delusion. It had to fracture eventually, and here we are. These deaths belong, in part, to all of them.
I keep hearing about the "plenty of trans folks trying to live their lives," but see no evidence of same. In particular, I see very few trans-identified individuals speaking out against trans violence, or against trans-identified males cheating at women's sports, or the mutilation of children. Why is that, I wonder? Maybe because the silent trans-identified people are in agreement with the activists?
We were told silence is violence, except when it comes to this. They DON'T call it out because it's so pervasive. I mean, just look at the t-shirts and other merchandise about "protect trans kids." The one on the lieutenant governor that is a popular design.. has a giant knife on it. There are other ones about trans rights that have large guns on them.
Democrats and trans activists feed into the phobia indoctrination of this group. A research who used to use the pen name Eliza Mondegreen (I can't remember her actual name) has written extensively on this.
From that piece: "Take trans activist and American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Chase Strangio. Two years ago, the ACLU lawyer argued that legislation that restricts access to hormones and surgeries for gender-questioning youth is “akin to killing us” and has since claimed that Republican legislators “want to control and eradicate us.”
The person who argued before SCOTUS in Skrmetti (a woman pretending to be a man) is telling people legislation is genociding them.
what these delusional people are actually admitting is that they would not exist nor survive in a natural setting, but only one in which there are drastic and unnatural medical interventions available. sounds like natural selection has already made its ruling.
Just as the leftists proclaim that it is wrong, racist, etc to eliminate crime in DC, they proclaim it to be genocide when society/legislators want to eliminate the mental illness of trans men wanting to change into women via the use of hormones, drugs and disgusting surgeries. This is all demonic to its core, lies for truth and evil in place of good. And the public is falling for it. Hold on to your hats! We're in for a bumpy ride, people!
I mean I'm sure there are, but I just said that to avoid making a generalization about a group and coming off as, dare I say it - transphobic - hahaha.
The truth is that there is no real movement. No cohesive, singular goal like with something such as gay marriage. This trans thing appeared out of nowhere and it was not a ground-up, grassroots movement based on equality, justice and human rights. No one here gave a shit about trans people. Normies just lumped them in with gay and thought everything was OK. It's a top-down movement from think tanks and corporations to distract and divide. Now that it's a trend, a new victimhood, and a shield to protect people from their bizarre behavior the numbers have exploded with posers. People with true gender dysphoria - not Munchausen or hipster gender dysphoria - is an incredibly small number of people. And those people are not denied any civil right en masse. I would bet that 99.9999% of violence against trans people is when a Jon finds out his prostitute is a guy after the blowjob.
Same as you don`t see the deluded/narcissistic gay men who like to pretend (this month)they are women complain about their fellow travellers only trying to do drag shows for children..and never any shows for adults like retirement homes etc....
Pretty much how I feel about it. And the men wanting to be women are already the lowest of the low and are outcasts as is with a hatred of society so you know… color me skeptical of the whole “plenty just wanting to live their lives” thing.
Well, to be fair, mental illness can produce delusional thinking. Those making the claims are not lying, they believe what they are telling us. But that belief is delusional.
Most of the cases are, at least recently, teen girls going through puberty, often autistic, easily impressionable, and subject to groupthink delusions. They are not in control and often terrified.
It’s the damn activists and irresponsible medical professionals that are the driving force behind a lot of this that are the liars.
Well, you won't notice the trans people just living their lives because they are going to work, coming home, not committing crimes or filming themselves being misgendered in public places, hoping to not be noticed. Not every member of a minority feels called to activism.
I can think of a few, like that Buck Angel and Scott something. Both are bio women who call themselves transsexuals I think. But they do appear to be in the minority.
" Is it mental illness associated with the trans condition? Is it depression spawned from the unfortunate condition that leads them to be medicated with SSRIs and antipsychotics, which seem to cause violent tendencies in some people?"
"mental illness" ..."trans condition"... "medicated with SSRIs and antipsychotics"
I'm wondering along the same lines. Hormonal imbalance has long been known as a contributor to aggressive behavior. I watched and listened to Dudett's video and it sounded batshit crazy.
The part where you said "plenty of trans just want to live their lives" is by definition not true. These people who volunteer to have their bodies mutilated and their body functions destroyed with hormones and drugs are beyond the pale. They are so far over the edge and so invested in their mental aberrations as to be completely anti-social. I do not believe they are capable of merely living their lives while being hopped up on drugs and the wrong hormones for their gender. Medical practitioners are creating monsters who can't possibly function as normal-thinking, feeling human beings. They are Dr Mengele's, experimenting like gods on poor, defenseless, sick young people. Lock them up!
Exactly. The prescribers of these meds and hormones that inflame mentally ill young men and women should be prosecuted for murder in these cases. They are knowingly aiding and abetting and exasperating the mentally ill to commit aberrent crimes rather than freeing them from their delusions. The medical practitioners in these cases are just as deranged as the patients. Where did they get their medical degrees? Out of a Cracker Jacks box?
Katie Daviscourt, who reports on Antifa's continued protests at the ICE facility in Portland, was looking through court records recently since the protests began, and she noted that 99% of them are "trans" or "non-binary." These are not well people. And yet Democrats want to pretend it's a civil rights issue like any other. Sure, mentally ill people have human rights but it's not a good call to make all of society affirm their delusions (and codify these protections by putting "gender identity" on level with sex).
"Katie Daviscourt, who reports on Antifa's continued protests at the ICE facility in Portland, was looking through court records recently since the protests began, and she noted that 99% of them are "trans" or "non-binary."
Yes. As someone else above noted: they are just cult members.
They’re also obsessed with recruitment and troll for disenfranchised or depressed people looking for an answer. Being a cash cow, the medical community is just as complicit. These people have psychological problems, some quite severe, long before they “discover” they were born in the wrong body. ROGD anyone? The root issues go unaddressed, and then you have carnage or suicide. This is true evil.
Immediately I think of Jeffrey Marsh. That may be the creepiest MFer of all. Staring into the camera with his ridiculous makeup and telling kids HE loves them and that they should go no contact with their parents.
You’re a silly, silly boy Pat. If you’ve got studies to prove me wrong, let’s see them. This whole ugly chapter in psychology is starting to unravel as the casualties pile add. Prove me wrong.
I strongly believe the rhetoric employed by trans-activists is entirely inappropriate and serves as a catalyst to the gender-cult mass shooters we’re seeing more and more of.
What worries me is that all the media are making the murderer into a super villain, famous!! I'm afraid this inspires other mentally ill guys wanting to become famous, no matter how, to perform the next massacre. But, hey, great clickbait and a chance to express their virtue.
Why is no one tracking these people who lovingly publish online “manifestos?" The govt seems willing and able to track perfectly sane political views it deems potentially dangerous, so why not extend its expertise to perfectly insane views that are explicitly criminal?
Aren't there algorithms used to identify potential terrorists for LE watch-lists? i see these mass shooters as domestic terrorists rather than garden-variety thugs.
Uh, stop and think about that for a second - no tracking until convicted of a crime? A) How do you think plots and conspiracies are prevented? B) What if you received a tip about an upcoming crime, but refused to act on it because “no conviction”. You’d be an ass and hopefully made into a public spectacle as an object lesson in how not to act/think.
Well, of course there are instances where there is reasonable suspicion that a crime will be committed and surveillance is warranted. That may happen on TV and in the criminal world, but among the regular population, that is a rarity. Nobody can really judge if their oddball friend or relative is capable of going off the deep end. If every wacko with outrageous opinions or even those who deviate from the norm are reported to the authorities and tracked as potential pre-crime suspects, we’d be living in a surveillance state, not unlike what is happening in communist China with AI, facial recognition and other advanced technology.
I'll take my chances with living in a free society with minimal governmental and law enforcement involvement.
There are 2 methods of institutional confinement for 2 different populations, although there is some overlap among the criminally insane. I,ll take my chances with run of the mill thugs, even crazy people, who are at least recognizably human. The criminally insane can't be "dealt with" in any reasonable manner.
"Well, of course there are instances where there is reasonable suspicion that a crime will be committed and surveillance is warranted. That may happen on TV and in the criminal world, but among the regular population, that is a rarity."
Prove that statement- that it's a "rarity".
Are you saying there is no real-world value or application for profiling? Seriously hope you don't have any position of importance in law enforcement...
Profiling may tell you who may have committed a crime or who is likely to commit a crime, but it can't tell you when or if that crime will be committed. You can't foresee the future. Precrime doesn't work and it shouldn't be a thing.
Here is my question to ChatGPT, followed by the summary of its answer which I find to be consistent with my argument.
Q: Are there statistics regarding how many mass shootings or terrorist attacks are pre-emptively thwarted in the US by law enforcement surveillance?
A: Bottom line
Public evidence suggests many U.S. plots and would-be attacks are disrupted, but the share attributable specifically to law-enforcement surveillance programs is small in the available data and not tracked in a consistent public metric. Most disruptions appear to start with tips, informants, targeted investigations, and behavioral-threat assessments, not bulk collection.
Perhaps you can cite some instances where law enforcement have demonstrated that they have thwarted imminent mass killings by disturbed, homicidal psychopaths.
I will modify my earlier post by saying, "unless they are known criminals", not necessarily proven and convicted in a court of law.
That works. "Known" crazy people who threaten EXPLICIT harm need to be removed from gen pop. I find it shocking that these people, KNOWN to LE, are allowed the freedom to commit such crimes.
That's so funny because the first thing I saw - maybe an X post - was an ammo clip with 'Kill Trump' written on it. So when the a deceitful media tries to deflect from the shooter being trans there is probably a thread to be pulled on with the trans violence angle
Another lie by omission from the CBC, which I wake up to every morning: "The FBI is investigating this as an anti-Catholic hate crime." No mention of the domestic terrorism component, which is clearly the more genuine motive. In Andy Ngo's excellent piece, he cites from this killer's manifesto the desire to inspire others to kill. You only go after children if your goal is to freak people out to the maximum extent possible.
The WH has tweeted a translation of the journal. It covers most of his problems since 7th grade. He is quite introspective at times, and very open about his condition. I would recommend everyone interested to read it. It is fascinating in a horrible way.
This man was a tortured soul who desperately needed help.
Update - just learned a friend lost an adult child in the west coast. All detailed discussion of losses in families while families are still grieving should be private, not public.
We might consider respecting the feelings of the families before all else.
And you, by clearly and flatly stating "his" weapon, seem to be about on The Times's level. Why is "who" the shooter is such a ridiculous debate with everyone? Some asshole becomes the latest mass-shooting fuckwad. Maybe we should talk about victims vs. identities and whether the shooter loved or hated Trump?
There are an awful lot of mass-shooting fuckwads around, and any progress towards a possible solution demands a thorough exploration of motives and causes. If drugs/teachers/parents/bullies/isolation/illness/electronics/ideology etc etc are common denominators, one or in particular combination, they need to be identified so that possible alleviations may be put in place. You can"t hope to solve a problem without accurately naming the stresses. The idea of a young man targeting large numbers of little kids after barricading the doors to prevent escape is more serious than just some asshole acting out his fuckwad fantasies.
I understand your frustration at what you consider knee-jerk reactions - it's like mine when politicians start yammering about gun-control, but these mass murder/suicides have become a terrible symptom of rampant cultural disease.
It’s so many things in our present culture. The entertainment industry has to be addressed and never is in these discussions. Probably a good 80 percent of what people are watching is gore porn. There’s something like 8 spinoffs from The Walking Dead. Are flesh eating zombies really that compelling?? We’re changing people’s brain chemistry. I don’t know what the answer is.
Nope, perfectly serious. It has worked amazingly well for us. I happen to believe you reap what you sow. My ideas of fruitful harvest might not be everyone's, and that's fine. To each his own.
That is nonsense imo. Without straining towards virtue, life would be a hellscape. Without rules, we live in a natural state, which is chaos. "The noble savage" is a romantic fantasy with no basis in reality.
You are one of a very, very, very few who actually want to know motive to understand why this continues to occur.
There’s one more common denominator—guns. But no one wants to talk about that, like no one is actually concerned with what social media is doing to people’s brains. Drugs won the Drug War, so it doesn’t do any good to talk about that. Bullies have been around forever. The teaching profession gets nowhere near the respect it used to. Too damn many parents, having never said NO to a child, wonder why the child goes looking for a Columbine.
And it’s all about distraction. It’s one more thing to keep us unfocused on the ongoing theft of the bottom 90%’s money by the top 10%.
No one in power wants mass shootings to end. 1. They keep us distracted, and 2. The blame game between the tribes reinforces number 1.
Hence my point—who gives a shit who did it? It’s done, and can’t be undone. Can’t blame it all on the media either, since they know damn well by our clicks and likes what stories we’re looking at.
If we don’t give a shit who did it, or why, it will continue. The past can't be undone, but if there's no hope for better, there,s no hope at all. I don't want to live that way, however much the truth inclines.
That said, i am as pessimistic as you. All the horror rings hollow, until it happens to us.
The real horror is that we throw up our hands in the pretend horror that lets it continue to happen.
Of course it will continue. No one is seriously addressing causes, and there are a LOT of guns. You're exactly right in pointing out our throwing up of hands and pearl clutching when it happens, but everyone's fine soon after, and hey! it's a holiday weekend! College football starts! Jerry Jones proves he's as bad at running a Dallas team as Nico Harrison with the Mavericks! Distractions.
It will almost surely continue for us as a society but I’m here to preach that individual parents can remove their children from toxic influences if they care enough to make hard choices.
Just as in all knife-attacks the common denominator is knives, and in bombings the common denominator is bombs and in vehicles-driving-through-crowd attacks the common denominator is vehicles....
" No one is seriously addressing causes, and there are a LOT of guns"
There were a lot of guns 60 years ago, too- and not so many mass shootings. Some other "common denominators" have changed since then. Any thoughts on what those might be?
The most obvious common denominator is people who are willing to kill others.
The weapon of choice may change, but the evil behind the act will always be the same. The erosion of the sanctity and value of human life is what we may want to look into a bit more thoroughly.
Murder has always happened, all the time, everywhere, and will continue. The only way to end that would be to magically grant us all perfect living conditions. Ain't happening. So deal.
Of course it will continue to happen. Who said it wouldn't? I'm not having trouble dealing with anything. The 30,000+ annual gun deaths in this country will continue, including about 4 children per day on average. If no one can get excited over 4 kids wasted every day, why should I bother with 2, 12, or 26 or more happening all at once? Drops in the bucket. No one wants to fix it.
According to the Brady Institute: "60% of gun deaths are suicide and 37% are homicide — including the 1% of mass shootings. The remaining 3% of gun deaths include law enforcement involved shootings, unintentional shootings and those that were undetermined.
Because he was mentally ill and a manifestation of that is his "gender dysphoria". It's in the DSM-5. Now add prescription or perhaps illicit drugs and they could be contributing factors. It's critical to name the problem and challenge all medical professionals to figure out how best to treat the mentally ill.
I would much prefer to put those beautiful innocent Catholic children and seniors who were 100% targeted to get all of the attention. Instead the media would prefer to take a side and most of us are effing sick of it!
The media absolutely “picks sides”. They are complicit in the evil when they can’t see who the actual victims are. And you’re correct, zero mammals can ever change their sex. It’s the great lie.
This isn’t a conservative thing. This is a human - science thing. The continuum of one’s hormones (more or less progesterone/estrogen) is broad, which can obviously make a man or woman more or less feminine or masculine. Thinking you’re born “in the wrong body” is no different than the 85 lb woman who thinks they are fat. It’s all the same body dysmorphia.
1. We know full well you wouldn't be saying that if the shooter was a conservative Christian MAGA guy who shot up a bunch of trans kids.
2. This dude was a dude. It's not a matter of opinion or something that can be changed with a label. Humans come in two sexes, the technology does not exist to turn one into the other, and people who think otherwise are simply deluding themselves.
I’ll go slower. Whenever a mass shooting occurs, dipshits in both tribes want to know if they can blame it on the other. That’s more important than whether the fucker gets caught. With no concern at all for those killed or their families. It’s all about “can we put points on the board?” It’s retarded.
Your comment was itself an effort to put points on the board, as you say. I responded to that directly. Can't imagine you didn't get what I was saying, so I guess you're still trying to score points.
The bedrock reality is that people cannot change our sex, however much the NYT, or you, or anyone would like to pretend we can. Pointing that out isn't engaging in status competition. It isn't even making an argument. It's just stating a fact.
You're treating a delusional mental illness as if it is a legitimate point of view. And you're doing it to "score points". I'm guessing most of the people you know are doing the same thing. Please stop.
(Sigh) The story is not about whether one can change one’s sex or not. Take your bedrock realities somewhere relevant. The story is about innocent people being murdered.
There’s no possible way to track everyone who makes insane violent threats, even when accompanied by acts that bring them to the attention of authorities. We lack the manpower and infrastructure now to do that, even when its in our face. And that’s where we do have the political will which, frankly, we mostly don’t. There’s very little that can be done UNTIL somebody crosses the line into actual criminal conduct - its the price we are already paying for living in a free society. Then the obvious happens and everyone scratches their head or gets indignant “why didn’t somebody do something”!? Many times, someone did report something disturbing about the individual, but “the system” couldn’t deal effectively with the information because, for the most part, it had its hands more than full triaging cases of actual fuckups who had already done something awful. Forget worries about a surveillance state - the volume of criminal or near-criminal conduct in society already overwhelms the system. What is absurd is the lengths officials must go to and the obstacles put in the way of the state acting when some disturbed person is right on the edge of acting out, has made their plans explicit, and who has a proven history of criminal insanity. Involuntary commitment is next to impossible. And its not an “only on tv dramas” situation. Go spend a week with the county prosecutors of any mid-size metro area and you’d see the true amount of outrageous shit people pull (you may have to spend an extra week in a rural area, but only because of reduced population density). So what you’re advocating is essentially already the default status quo and it isn’t working. To REQUIRE a criminal conviction just takes it to the next level of insanity.
One has only to read the black box warning labels on SSRIs and anyone sane will understand why school shootings became a "thing" with their introduction and widespread use! Another in a long list of #pharmacrimes against humanity
Cross-sex hormones also wreak havoc. And I've been on an SSRI for years and would have offed myself long ago without it. They may be overprescribed, but they have their uses. And trust me, I care . . . too much sometimes.
Thank you for this post. SSRIs are over-prescribed for sure, but they also save lives. My wife for one. The "care....too much sometimes," quote is spot on. I hope you're doing well.
They totally have their uses, but I think the point is those drugs can have side effects for some people that include violent or suicidal thoughts. I don't think there is a mass shooter that wasn't on some form of meds. I also think you have a point that needs to be examined, which is the mix of those drugs AND hormone therapies
You have a point, but when it comes to mass shooters on meds, is it really cause and effect or are mass shooters just suffering from mental illness and people have been trying to treat it?
I read/heard somewhere that if you give a man or boy female hormones it doesn't turn them into a beautiful young woman, but actually a menopausal old woman.
As a menopausal woman myself, you do NOT want to go there.
For many years we've been going through the same thing, but with more official pressure, regarding the prescription of benzodiazepine tranquilizers. Without going into detail I will tell you that I have combat - adjacent permanent injuries. Ideally, I would be prescribed 5 mgs of clonazepam at bedtime, and I was, until a few years ago, when what one of my doctors called "a reign of terror" began to be prosecuted in my state by its medical bureaucrats. There may be a doctor somewhere in this state who would prescribe those 5 mgs per evening, but I doubt it.
They're terrorized by the possibility that their licenses to practice will be yanked. Because they are, my dose was abruptly cut from 5 mgs to 3. That isn't enough to provoke a crisis, but my sleep hasn't been as good since.
Like SSRIs, benzodiazepines are major league drugs, and they should never be regarded casually, but one interesting quality they have is that when a patient reaches a needed dose, it's rare that eventually he finds himself needing a higher dose. Yet about fifteen years ago, a superspreader - like phenomenon of horror about what benzodiazepines MIGHT do to long time medical users of them in large amounts swept the medical profession.
I regard it as medicine's first major mass idiocy of the 21st century; medicine is prone to mass idiocies the way a boyhood friend of mine who died early of lung cancer was prone to pleurisy when we were children.
Many patients suffer significant side effects to these drugs but take them anyway because they otherwise wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. I've known some suicides but there was always plenty going on besides the drugs. I don't know any mass murderers. I also don't know, and neither does anyone else, how these drugs mix with cross-sex hormones to affect a developing brain. I'd hazard a guess that the results might be far short of optimal.
Glad to hear that! As should be evident to everybody, we do not all react to pharmaceuticals the same way. We don't all react to bee stings the same way. Or anything else for that matter. The COVID shots are a prime example.
Either your meds are affecting your ability to logic or you never had the ability.
How many allergy meds include a black box warning about their potential to cause suicidal and/or homicidal thoughts/tendencies? Oh, right! The answer is exactly NONE.
Wasn’t it proven a few years ago that while SSRIs target serotonin uptake, the evidence linking serotonin and depression is extremely weak? I remember the outcry that SSRIs work, even though we can’t prove how they work!
They work to relieve my anxiety, particularly as fall comes on. They’ve worked for other people that I know. It’s not something I have to take on faith. But my problem is anxiety, not depression.
How? Are you telling me that I didn't experience what I've experienced? The science behind SSRIs isn't hard. I'd read up on it before I start yammering on about how other people have been "duped."
Its very likely that you are both right. Something can help one person but hurt the next, there is no drug or treatment that provides 100% guaranteed outcome. Which is why i support vaccines but 100% oppose vaccine mandates.
I myself have very peculiar reactions to small amounts of some substances, like echinacea, certain fillers and "inert' substances used in meds.
I have a mild dairy intolerance but if i eat a sausage that uses milk solids as fill that is 24 hours of pain, sweating, cramps, lower body explosions, etc.
There is becoming lots of data that SSRI's make "some" people psychotic, sociopaths, just like some people develop irreversible mental issues from THC where others exhibit no issues (this is where the explosion of drug addicts comes from, decriminalize THC and give access to all and that small susceptable percentage suddenly because a huge number of actual people, lives ruined forever.)
What a rude, asinine thing to say. If we were all having an actual instead of virtual conversation, and this were still a decent society, someone would slug you.
Have you no shame, NYT! It takes ignorance and the bad faith of politics to overlook the well described negative effects of the kind of extensive hormone altering drugs that sex changes require. Even the relative smaller doses taken by women bodybuilding for strength and muscle building have been implicated in dangerous health effects. Taking the amount of testosterone required to lose female characteristics and take on male features is a massive assault on the brain and body. Doing this to the developing bodies of minors is nothing less than disgraceful, criminal. The same is true for biological males seeking to lose male characteristics by increasing the amount of estrogen. THese dangers are not only supported by common sense and observation, but also decades of research and clinical evidence.
Please read the book, "Delivered From Distraction," by Edward Hallowell, M.D., and John Ratey, M.D. The book is about ADD, and it deserves its status as a classic.
ADD is real. It has nothing to do with the way a child is raised. It's a brain based disorder. Four parts of the brain show up with differences from the norm on imaging studies of ADD patients.
I've GOT the damned brain type, so don't expect me to remember which parts of the brain they are, but there are four which are slightly but significantly smaller than the same parts in you normies. This makes the wiring in those parts of the brain somewhat looser, and yes, that is where the term "he's not too tightly wrapped" comes from.
Because of the brain differences, what the authors liken to "gates" in parts of the brain fail to slam shut as they should when the sufferer needs to calm down.
Ritalin works by increasing the ability of those gates to slam shut.
It really is. And people, children most of all, deserve the dignity which comes with others' awareness that the person is not a hellion, is not acting in bad faith, but is a victim of a central nervous system which has some kinks which can be medicated.
You'll find this funny: years ago, I had a fine neurologist who himself had severe ADD. He refused to take medication for it because he said it impaired his creativity. He and I hit it off in many ways and he did me a lot of good. This was at a time when prescriptions were still handwritten. New patients were warned by a nurse always to check their prescriptions before they left the office. The doctor might have forgotten to sign a prescription.
The doctor's ADD was so bad that, unmedicated as he was, he needed a nurse with a particularly strong personality to ''manage" him. At my first appointment with him, I heard her whisper/yell, "Kevin, you're fifteen minutes behind!" He had gotten caught up in reading something.
right on. the media and politicians have been protecting pharmakeia for a long time. its the fucking drugs. millions of people have firearms and they dont go out on shotting sprees. the autopsies of shooters are always covered up ot never even conducted because of the drugs.
I have written on this extensively for years, going back to Columbine. Harris was on Luvox, whose side effects include dissociation and akathisia. It was originally believed that Harris and Klebold committed suicide when they realized they were trapped in the school's library, but it was actually Harris who killed Klebold, then took his own life.
Thousands of murders are attributed to this family of drugs. England bans their use for anyone under the age of 21. After HIPPA kicked in, no one reports what Adam Lanza or any of the other drug zombies were on, but you can assume it was from this family of drugs.
I am not medically trained, but I am the widow of a wonderful man who took different anti-epileptic medicines over the years for his partial epilepsy. Several of these made him paranoid. One made him suicidal. When those particular drugs were discontinued, he returned to himself. I keep wondering how long this neurological devastation because of pharmaceuticals will go on. Illegal drugs can also cause paranoia and schizoid breaks. Why is the Left so invested in their gun control narrative that they give only glancing notice to the role of drug-induced mental illness in these mass shootings? Why do many on the Left continue to argue for "housing first" and "harm reduction" when it's clear that the mentally ill and drug addicted should receive treatment in long-term residential facilities where drugs of all kinds can either be monitored for efficacy or banned. Families and jails are now the caretakers for the severely--sometimes dangerously--mentally ill and/or addicted.
"Advocates" for the mentally ill crippled our institutional solutions for the the problem back in the '80s. Now it's near impossible to get an unstable individual committed because they have to have buy-in. There's no committing them against their will.
My sister-in-law's schizophrenic and we were unable to do anything with her until she got into it with the cops. Needless to say, these types of "solutions" can get someone killed. How many seriously mentally ill people, like the Annuciation shooter, are wandering around at this moment simply because they haven't killed someone yet? What's it going to take?
Clearly it's madness that some of the very drugs used to treat depression in this country state on the box a very real possibility of suicidal/homicidal ideation. It's like treating an alcoholic with Everclear.
The media has its biases and this incident lays some of them bare. We're not allowed to honestly address gender dysphoria or any other psychosis for fear of upsetting the subject. The Left will push housing (does nothing), and "harm reduction" (polypharmacy). I cringe when I hear the talking heads say the shooters needed medical intervention because that only means on thing: more pills. Like that's solved anything yet.
And anti-Catholic bigotry is probably the most acceptable bigotry in the country as far as the media's concerned. They can't bring themselves to say shooting through a church window during a morning kids' Mass is anti-Catholic. They wouldn't say shit with a mouthful, apparently.
Tim Walz was given a chance a few years ago to extend state security to private schools. He did nothing. However, he fretted over the trans community like they were newborns. He was sure to protect them.
We have to protect ourselves apparently. My late afternoon walking route takes me by the local Catholic church/school. Yesterday, the parish priest was sitting outside and we chatted for a bit and this came up in conversation. Because of this event, they will now be locking the doors once the school mass starts and a couple of the parishioners who have been in law enforcement will be outside keeping an eye on things.
Did you notice, we never heard much about the pair after the shooting? Or their parents. Where in God's name were the parents?
Harris' dad took a call from the gun shop. The owner said "Your silencers came in." Harris' dad says "I didn't order any silencers." and hangs up. If it were you, don't you think you'd ask your kid what's up with that? But nothing.
Dissociation is where mentally you can't separate reality from fantasy. The boys had a programmers kit to build battlezones in Doom (remember Doom?). They recreated their high school in the game and, from there, they plotted how they'd approach the school, which classrooms they'd go to, etc. Their plan was to demand a plane and then fly it into a building for the finale.
This was long before 9/11. Evil has an imagination most of us can't comprehend.
"Evil has an imagination most of us can't comprehend."
IMO, satan is fully-grounded in the reality of the human condition- including ALL of our vulnerabilities. he doesn't use imagination, he just starts the avalanche high above the village below, then sits back to admire the wreckage...
What really gets overlooked is some people are simply broken. In previous societies, we banished or killed such broken people, because they are toxic to society. This is not a "fixable" thing. Some people aren't meant for the living. Our society is way too death-phobic. Life and Death. Those who don't want to be alive shouldn't be coerced to live.
Can you imagine SSRI’s plus Estrogen, plus pot, plus maybe a little anti anxiety and/or ADHD meds and then top it off with Pabst Blue Ribbon. Who is the medical professional prescribing this? What are the mental health records, what was the treatment plan. It is a public safety and human rights too if you ask me.
About 20 years ago my aunt was on so many drugs she could barely function. The “doc” or as I like to say Quack who gave her these (including Methadone- cuz every elderly lady needs that). eventually lost his license.
Well, since the perpetrator was in the process of a gender change, that would be sex hormones, which are proven to alter behavior. The state-run media does backflips to avoid that inconvenient fact, however.
Trannys keep slaughtering innocent Christian children, yet right wing extremists are supposedly the biggest threat Americans face. If a right wing extremist ever decides to go slaughter everyone at one of those mutilation factories, you can bet every headline will make sure you know it was a right wing extremist with ties to Donald Trump that committed the targeted hate crime. There’s no reason to bother with these fake journalists any longer. Unless you’re looking for material for a stand up act.
The whole "right-wing extremists are the greatest threat facing our country" thing was so ludicrous and laughable I thought no one would ever take that brand of Democrat seriously ever again. I was wrong.
I have a great friend that's a Democrat that has slowly gone Leftist (seems to be drifting back toward the middle now) not by choice, but because he didn't realize CNN, MSNBC, NYT, everything was poisoning his brain. He thought that was the news.
Anyway, he started buying guns. He has an amazing collection of great guns. The rabbit hole he went down learning about guns and becoming an enthusiast rivals any right-wing country boy I've ever known. The reason he stocked up? After the 2016 election he was convinced white nationalists would be kicking in his doors (he's white). I said, "if anyone is kicking in your doors or climbing in your windows, it ain't going to be a white nationalist."
Matt and Walter's satirical description of the NYT as a "government in exile" has opened my eyes. All my friends who quote "The Times" are also people who believe everything that is wrong is because of Trump and the "terrible times" his election has inflicted on "our democracy".
Does he still vote for people who would like to make him a criminal simply for owning all that stuff, and think that it's the other side who are authoritarian?
Yes and yes. Interesting, right? He does start hoarding things like XL magazines when word of them being banned comes down. An unusual paradox to live in.
Progressives are the left and it is progressives who embrace crime and violence as legitimate career choices. It pays well, and you don't have to do much more than show up when the bat (shite crazy) signal is projected into the sky.
The chief of police in mpls is named O’Hara. Chief O’Hara may have put out the bat signal after consulting commissioner Gordon but who knows. Batman can fight joker, riddler, and king Tut but he cannot stop this kind of violence.
This person was not a left-wing extremist. He references a popular right-wing, pro-gun podcaster and says he should be president. His video is a mosaic of shooters' names, racist language and Neo-nazi references. There was no coherent philosophy in any of it. Don't politicize what happened.
Update: It appears his dad worked for Esri for 30 years. Huge intel contractor that works with DoD, CIA, Lockheed, etc. This might explain why he was using Russian, which always struck me as odd. Also might give some insight into his mindset.
Profile on Linked In, Flash Intel, Scrubbed from Dun and Bradstreet
Yes, he may have had an incoherent point of view, but the NYT chose to only print elements that carried their leftist narrative, e.g., not clarifying that Trump wasn't just "mentioned", but the exhortation was to kill him. Also, not to list the number of attacks on Christian churches and schools was blatant bigotry. Catholic Voice has reported that in the past few years, these attacks have numbered in the hundreds. Both this attack and the MSM reportage of it are hate crimes.
I agree the reporting is disturbingly skewed. I'm not okay with that. The NYT should have mentioned what you point out. But to say he was a left-wing extremist doesn't fit who this person seemed to be. If anything, the lack of coherence and any clear motive seems like a sign of BPD - but that's an amateur take.
He was nuts first and foremost, but if we're going to play the political affiliation game (and we sure would if he could be cast as a righty) he strikes me as much more left than right. I suspect he mentioned Brandon H. in order to mess with people and cause the sort of conversation we're having right now.
What would the NYT and the rest of the left wing media coverage look like if a guy wearing a MAGA hat and an NRA coat went into a gay bar and shot it up? Would they be promoting the "let's not jump to conclusions" narrative. Would they be trying to prevent any backlash on conservatives? It makes me wonder if they are all literally Insane?
There was one J6. "Jessica" Watkins. He was let off in Trump's blanket pardon of J6ers. I think he was responsible for amassing weapons outside the Capitol that day, but I don't think he actually had any inside (unless I'm mistaken). (I got into a back and forth with him on X once and I think he was remorseful. I remember he didn't like how he looked in photos from that day... LOL.)
They are certainly not insane. They lack integrity, are sell-outs to the Democratic party, as their readership is 98% Democrats. Even at that, they are losing readership as the Internet eclipses them. They are desperate and will stoop as low as they have to in order to stay relevant. Shaming them will have no effect. Thank you, Matt, and others who call them out. This is how we the scandalized stay centered, and hopeful. Bravo, Matt!
Reading the reader comments sections after several such articles will give you an excellent idea of the types of readers the NY Times is hanging desperately onto. Mostly highly “committed” (or about to be) pseudo intellectual leftists, with a smattering of sensible “old style liberals” who get shouted down with massive sloganeering any time they challenge the editorial wisdom. These people will keep the NYT afloat for some time.
Would they be mocking prayer if it was a mosque? I was about to add synagogue but remembered Jews are no longer a favored group to them. And they are right now encouraging backlash on gun owners, so yes they'd be calling for blood if a right-coded person did something like this.
Wow. “Readers, these are the facts, but you are not reach this conclusion”. I don’t know what the Times is doing here, but it certainly isn’t journalism.
These reactions make me wonder what would happen if, God forbid, we had another 9/11-type attack. Not that our response back then (war wise, Patriot Act-wise) was necessarily smart, but there was a true sense of unity as a country. Today I fear it would be another divisive flashpoint that we’d endlessly argue about.
You'd be surprised but within days the left was warning about Islamophobia, some were claiming "we have to put it in context and many opposed even the incursion into Afghanistan claiming we should just arrest Bin Laden. To give one example Cheryl Crow made the brilliant statement that "If we dont want war we shouldn't have enemies." This prompted Andrew Slullivan's classic piece "The Deep Thought of Cheryl Crow." I remember it like it was yesterday. It drove me and many others like Glenn Reynolds and Roger Simon right out of the Democratic party.
Yup, I remember it too, Freedom Lover. I saw the Towers burn with my own naked eyeballs from the Jersey palisades. This pathology of blaming the victim reached its highest point on October 7, 2023 when those who were raped until their pelvises were broken, burned alive, beheaded with shovels, and kidnapped and tortured were depicted within minutes as deserving of their fate. The Left looks upon the Face of Evil and then kisses it full on the mouth.
I watched the Pentagon burn from my living room window and I completely agree about the Left just sticking their metaphorical tongues deep down the gaping maw of evil.
Um... I'm amazed that I would be asked to clarify who the victims and who the perpetrators of the atrocities committed on October 7, 2023 were... and so I won't attempt to. If you can't figure that out, Cosmo T Kat, I cannot help you.
According to educated sources who have been working on deeper intelligence than the daily newspaper, the consensus is that more Israelis were killed by the IDF, from tanks and helicopters, than were killed by Hamas. Their data was drawn from eyewitness, active soldiers, and the evidence of automobiles incinerated snd buried after the initial attack.
“Feb 09, 2025
Ex Israel Army Chief Admits Using Hannibal Directive Against Own Soldiers”
This is also consistent with the motivation of Hamas to take live hostages for the purpose of exchange. My sources are the Israeli Press and independent experts who have analyzed this data thoroughly.
There is no more room for lies in this tragic world.
"...more Israelis were killed by the IDF, from tanks and helicopters, than were killed by Hamas..." Can you even hear yourself? Only the last line of your post rings true; you should commit it to memory.
I wouldn’t be surprised, I was there like you were. And I remember those voices too. But my memory is that they were a very small albeit vocal minority, and the majority of people thought they were idiots and treated them as such.
I have noticed that the loudest voices are the most desperate. They are unable to maintain in their desperation, and 'hop like birds between opinions", to quote a famous prophet who worried like you do. And certainly the "priests of Ba'al" continue to do damage. But in the end, I believe the steadfast voices will prevail this time.
No I am not misremembering it. The original piece was written in his blog The Dish and was titled as I say it. I have never seen this and I dont read and have never read Salon. Its either another piece or a reprint of his blog piece with a different title.
The search phrase "Sullivan The Deep Thought of Cheryl Crow" appears to be a typo for Sheryl Crow, a well-known American singer-songwriter. A specific work or concept by this name does not exist. However, the phrase is likely a reference to her introspective lyrics and candid commentary on personal experiences and social issues. . . In a 2024 interview with The Guardian, Crow reflected on the best value she could teach her children. She responded that she wants to help them reconnect with their innate sense of empathy, which she feels people learn to "desensitize" themselves from over time. . ."
AI is completely wrong. The essay was a condemnation of the absurd anti American left using Crow's statement as an example. It was written in his Blog back in the good old days of the original Blogosphere so I doubt it's even available online any longer. Its 24 years old.
Crisis to crisis no solutions forthcoming. This shooting/shooter event is yet another reflection of the mal pathology poisoning the American psyche--American life --and American discourse. The MSM distortion of American life and healthy human reality is exactly why We the People are all in on subscription journalism. Again corny me: Truth is light. A healthy Republic cannot exist inside a lie. The children in the church and the child with the gun were all OUR children. The lie is an industrial for profit enterprise and this tragedy is the lie made manifest.
There was more unity than we had prior to 9/11 where the Democrats cut Bush up every single day as having stolen the election. But it really didn't last that long. A few months maybe.
For sure. But at least we had a few months and some unity that would happened was awful and we needed to punish those who did it and make sure it could never happen again. Then it all went down the toilet.
Can't find the reference anymore, but a young woman wrote a piece years later about how she was studying abroad in Paris on 9/11 and had a left-wing anti-American friend group, but when the planes hit she was horrified. Then her friends called to invite her to a party to celebrate the attack, and she realized just how radical they were.
The Left hasn't changed. The Left has been what it is for hundreds of years. What changed is social media and smartphones. Now groups like those 9/11-celebraters have a lot more influence, which has created more of them, and they aren't afraid to broadcast who they are to any audience.
In the 2002 election cycle, Democrat candidates fell over themselves to campaign as being friends with GWB. They ran ads with videos of themselves hugging GWB. The vibe was that you had to transcend partisanship, and the more you did that the more you deserved votes. It's inconceivable that such "unity wins elections" messaging would emerge today, no matter the catastrophe that preceded it. I blame the increased strength of internet bubbles for that.
But a change in the power of these bubbles is not the same as saying they didn't exist 25 years ago.
Ugh, that brought us the stupid Patriot Act. We are now on notice that no catastrophe or emergency, no matter how real or urgent it seems, is important enough to make us give up our individual rights, even "temporarily".
What is the value of "a true sense of unity as a country" when it is the emotional response to a highly suspicious event that results in the illegal attack on another nation on the other side of the globe, and the deaths of millions of innocent people? It could be argued that unity only has value when it is based on truth and justice.
The governor of California blamed the republicans even though Minnesota is run by a democratic governor and democratic mayor and there were 3 attacks in California this week with one attack killing 5 people.
Also Mayor Frey admonished the public on X about the futility of “thoughts and prayers” since that’s what the children were doing when murdered. That’s an impressive level of cynicism. And they wonder why voter registration in all thirty states that track party affiliation show a decline for team blue.
I hope that Matt and Walter cover the evil clown Psaki's reaction, even worse than the Minneapolis soy boy Mayor's, where she produced tears while raging at those devout people who would dare pray for the dead in this horrible case. Calling her a she-demon is too kind to demons.
Assigning collective guilt to alphabet people (or even noticing this murderer was a tranny) is a war crime, but punishing all gun owners is morally righteous. Politicizing this even is wrong unless it's the left doing it.
And there were four shooting incidences in MPS in 13 hours including another Catholic (Jesuit) school, Cristo Rey. You really have to dig to find that info. I was listening to Megyn Kelly yesterday and she had Liz Collins on her pod who did the documentary on Minneapolis after George Floyd. That's how I heard about it. She even said that the police scanners are blocked so journalists can't grab the information in real time! MPS and much of MN has just lost their marbles.
Once again (COVID, Russiagate, Hunter Laptop and now the current tragedy) the NY Post trumps the NY Times. At least people in that city have one reliable newspaper.
This may be the most egregious example of “conservatives pounce” I’ve ever seen. And to express such mystified agnosticism of the shooter’s motive given the release of his or her manifesto on social media is pretty gross.
CNN was caught off guard, scrambling to decide how they were going to handle the trans issue.
Erin Burnett aired video of the Minneapolis police chief, speaking outdoors, referring to the killer as "he". This produced tight lips and a furrowed brow, poor Erin. They also showed the photo of him (the killer) w/ lipstick and pigtails. Within an hour Anderson Cooper stated they would not show photos of the killer.
So they can bury it, like they did w/ the Nashville shooter & (both) Trump shooters -- and we still don't know who the Baltimore Key Bridge "ship pilot" was, or Rebecca Lobach's (DC helicopter pilot) social-media history... #MoveAlong #NothingToSeeHere
Yeah, earthy-bookworm, it's disheartening to see people cowed into submission on this issue. Insistence on preferred pronouns is just another symptom in the constellation of symptoms in this epidemic of gender dysphoria. This illness -- and it is an illness, not a civil right -- is about control, just like an eating disorder. "You can't make me eat." "You have to call me by the name I choose and the pronouns I choose." "I'm in charge here."
A couple of years ago, I tested a 12-year-old girl for a language delay/disorder, perhaps autism, whose mother informed us that her daughter went by "they/them." It was evident who held the power in the relationship. I was indifferent to this demand; I didn't have a dog in the fight. If she wanted my report to refer to her as "they/them," it was no skin off my nose.
I happen to wear my wristwatch with the dial on the inside of my wrist, rather than the outside. The young lady I was testing scowled at my watch and asked, "Why do you wear your watch like that?" I explained that I simply find it easier to look at my watch face with my palm open toward me, without having to turn my forearm and elbow over to look at the outside of my wrist.
"Well, I don't like it," she said rather stridently. It was clear that she wanted and fully expected me to alter my personal behavior to suit her. "Well, I'm not going to change it for you," I replied. She huffed and pouted a little, but then we returned to the task at hand. But this incident gave me a bit of insight into what living with her must be like at home, and why mom looked so beaten down.
It's not an identity, it's a disorder. And we're doing these people no favors by indulging their delusions. Just look what we're doing with the so-called "Furries." Honestly, are there no adults left in the room to say, "Enough with this nonsense already."
I think furries should be fed “furry” food like Pedigree and Purina or if they are cats. some nice raw liver.. hmm dogs like raw meat too.. and garbage.. and of course made to walk on all fours and use a litter box. or made to pee outside. even in winter and rain..many dogs wear “pinch” collars. thye must no wear clothes and must sniff the b utts or even lick the butts of others furries of the same species.. cat furries must kill and eat rats and birds.. dog furries must kill cat furries. or at least chase them up trees... and most importantly. furries must be neutered at an early age so they do not cause “overpopulation"
Where is the outrage in the psychology/social work profession? Have they learned nothing from the eating disorder scourge? Or, do they, too, lack the courage or ethical conviction to come forward to warn the public about this latest transhumanist attack on ...yes, humanity.
Psychology and social work have been captured by the woke cult. Social work has been that way for a long time, politically correct, controlling females for the most part. Psychology got there more recently. And yes, they lack the common sense, discernment and ethical conviction to do anything besides be among the most active membership of the woke cult.
Excellent point. The Daily Mail blocked me when I posted a similar comment although several others got through. They lost me as a potential paid subscriber.
He's good on a number of topics but boy does he make bad arguments about Israel. I think he's so used to discovering bad behavior by western politicians and institutions that he gives their anti-western counterparts the benefit of the doubt.
No, it is the sick person who has a disorder, not us. We do not have to go along with their sick fantasies. Why should we indulge and appease these lost souls? This is what the left has been doing and what broke the society, and brought many young people into a delusional dysfunctional state, and made many even physically disfigured for life. I absolutely refuse to go along with this insanity.
One of the reasons for the "We" may be that in British English collective nouns take plural verbs more often than in American English, e.g. "The government are meeting to discuss imposing stricter regulations on social media".
"Mentally ill tranny (redundant, yes) commits another act of politically motivated terrorism against a religious institution and its congregants" is far too impolite. Heck, if this was true, people may start looking at trannies like they're a danger to themselves and others, and respond accordingly.
Of course, respond accordingly people will, regardless of how reality is repackaged for their consumption. I've never observed bald faced lies of having the effect of placating those being lied to.
Using a simple binomial model (n ≈ 300 shooters since 2018, trans share p ≈ 0.006):
• Expected trans/gender-fluid shooters: ~1.8
• If actual is 6 → tail probability ~1.0% (P≥6 = 1.013e-02)
• If actual is 10 → ~0.0018% (P≥10 = 1.751e-05)
• If actual is 12 → ~0.000039% (P≥12 = 3.936e-07)
So at 10–12 cases, that’s orders of magnitude above chance given the population share.
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📊 Mass Shooting Statistics (2018–2025)
• Total mass shooters (approx.): ~300
• Trans/gender-fluid share of U.S. population: ~0.6%
• Expected number of trans shooters (if proportional): ~1.8
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🔎 Actual vs. Expected
• If actual = 6
• Expected = 1.8
• Over-representation = 3.3× higher than expected
• Probability of ≥6 just by chance: ~1% (1 in 100)
• If actual = 10
• Expected = 1.8
• Over-representation = 5.6× higher than expected
• Probability of ≥10 just by chance: ~0.0018% (1 in 55,000)
• If actual = 12
• Expected = 1.8
• Over-representation = 6.7× higher than expected
• Probability of ≥12 just by chance: ~0.000039% (1 in 2.5 million)
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✅ Plain Conclusion
• With 10–12 actual cases, the odds of that happening “just by chance” are vanishingly small.
• This is not random noise — it’s a real and extraordinary overrepresentation of trans/gender-fluid individuals in mass shootings compared to their population size.
Root cause is likely the SSRI drugs that says on the FDA warning labels include suicide and mass murder ideation….. time for these drugs to be an automatic “ disqualification” to own a gun or operate heavy machinery for that matter.
I THINK you're trying to say something important on this post, Marlene, but there's a hella lot of people who've never went near a Stats course.
Could you translate this into plain English that someone w/an 8th grade education could understand?
For example, what IS the generally accepted %age of the general population that 'is' tranny? And what is the source of that figure; can it be trusted? How could we arrive at a solid number?
You've shown some good work, but I don't have any context to understand it within.
The best surveys (like the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and UCLA’s Williams Institute studies) put the U.S. share around 0.6% of the population. That means about 6 in every 1,000 people. The number isn’t exact—it depends on how you ask the question—but 0.5–0.7% is a solid, generally accepted range.
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2. What we’d expect if mass shooters matched the general population.
If there have been about 300 mass shooters since 2018, and if transgender people made up shootings at the same rate as their share of the population (0.6%), then you’d expect only about 2 shooters total to be transgender.
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3. What we actually see.
Reports (depending how you classify) suggest 6 to 12 transgender or gender-fluid shooters in that period. That’s way above the expected number of 2.
• If it’s 6, that’s about 3 times higher than expected.
• If it’s 10–12, that’s 5–7 times higher.
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4. Why this matters statistically.
If shootings were truly random, the chance of seeing 10–12 transgender shooters out of 300 is astronomically low—like the odds of flipping a coin and getting heads 20 times in a row. In other words: this isn’t “just chance.”
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✅ Plain Conclusion:
Transgender people make up less than 1% of Americans but possibly 2–4% of recent mass shooters. That’s a huge over-representation. Whether the number is 6, 10, or 12, the odds of it happening by chance are so tiny that it points to something real going on.
Oh wow, thanks for this, I REALLY appreciate you taking the time to clarify.
Now... as far as your analysis is concerned...
WHOAAA!
This puts everything into an entirely new light for me; I agree that 'there's something goin' on'. Just what that is, I don't know. All I would come up with would be theories and opinions. However...
Something indeed is going on. The mayor was first of all commiserating with the shooter’s group (trans community) instead of the dead and traumatized
children. Am I missing something ? Is there an anti- children thing going on that I missed? Is it about Christians having children ? I am a bit confused .
I also think that we need to work on the definition of “mass shooting” before examining this proportionality…most definitions are based on number of people shot and they do not exclude gang or domestic violence.
May I ask why you think the important thing is to be modest in assessing statistics and probabilities of transgender murderers, rather than stopping them and mourning their poor wee victims?
If you want to go into this further we shouldn't stop at mass shootings. I almost can't keep up with the acts of violence they perpetrate on a smaller, though still horrific, scale. Shooting in Shrewsbury, MA, just this week comes to mind.
I think the victims of these crimes- the ones killed, the ones wounded, and those of us left to worry about the next time- are so important that we have to be as correct as possible in assessing the problem.
I’m having a hard time doing that because of media obfuscation. Here’s the list I’ve compiled so far (which is up to 7), and again, bc of media reports that leave much to be desired w/re to detail and clarity, I’m resigned to simply calling someone like Carriker (PA) a “cross-dresser”.
I absolutely think the percentages that you noted in your first post would change- increase, in fact- if we clarify the definition of “mass-shooting” to exclude gang and domestic violence.
My statistical analysis of trans murderers keeps getting flagged and suppressed in X and i was banned for a day for talking about this frankly and with numbers.
Oh, it gets better. The local Fox outlet (KMSP) cut away from its coverage of a vigil at the school to show a 15 minute democratic/socialist diatribe Media not biased at all
Not to mention he said he regretted transitioning. I have personal experience that this is mental illness. The suicide rate is drastically high even after transitioning. Normalizing it is not the answer here. Being gay is not the same thing at all. But the person I know (and have known for 40 years) is mentally ill. Instead of attributing this behavior to it, they try to say being trapped in a man's body is responsible for all the crazy shit he has done. This does not mean any adult should not be able to identify or dress as the Easter bunny if they want to. Normalizing it for our children and surgery and hormones are a completely different story. Leftists want us to accept that this is just a normal choice and they are confusing our children. His mother probably added to this poor guy's problems and it's a shame. Then the left lies about how the right wants to erase trans people or mentally ill people. That is adding to violence and there is no low they won't stoop to for power. This is going to make that harder for them, but they never use any sense at all.
He's in the household. Mother has become infamous because she signed the name change. There's a picture of the dad's bday post to him in the rainbow colors.
"His mother probably added to this poor guy's problems and it's a shame."
His mother is 100% responsible for aiding and abetting his "gender dysphoric" delusions. He was 17 when they made the appointment to change his name to a female moniker. He had been catechized (in elementary school) for at least 8 years at this Catholic school. She was an employee of the same church/school, retiring four years ago. And STILL she signed off on his name change to a female name. She is described as Catholic and I can tell you with 100% certainty that she was not in full communion with the Church OR Christianity by deciding to abet the delusion that somehow God was wrong when he gave her a son and 17 years later that son said, uh no, I'm really a girl" and she says, "ok."
Her faith cannot be set aside in this scenario. The family had to be completely deluded to throw away their faith to choose this path vs getting their son the real help he needed. And he's no longer a "poor guy" when everyone around him looks the other way while he spirals into more crazy.
I had a brother who died by his own hands. He was 18 (three weeks from HS graduation). Males in general (and I have 6 brothers) are incredibly vulnerable to mental illness at this age. Her son was no different except he was aided in his delusion to continue on this disastrous path. My parents had no idea back in 1986 that Paul was going through something and would have sought help for him had they known.
Well, I daresay you are at least partially right. I feel a bit sorry for his mother, too, though, because she has also been intimidated by this narrative--if you were told your son would die if you didn't let him transition, are you 100% sure you'd oppose it? I am pretty sure I would have, but in Canada they have jailed fathers who opposed this kind of crap, even for not using their child's "preferred" pronouns or names.
I know he was troubled and she didn't make good decisions, (what does the father say about all this) but I also don't like to sit in judgment quite in that way. It's enough she made bad decisions and I don't want to judge her spirituality. That's for God to do. This culture created him AND her no doubt.
But I do agree with you without going quite there, that worshipping the state rather than God probably accounts for a lot of what ails us. I went to Oral University,, but I tend to see spirituality a bit like Jordan Peterson--nobody has all the answers. There have been some bad things done in the name of religion, too, but I'll take my chances with people who worship something bigger than themselves. :) The whole thing is very sad.
And I will say that faith does figure in this disaster. Perhaps we can't see what we are to learn from it all just y et...
No, absolutely not. I'm a devout Catholic and I would reassure my son that God made him perfectly. I would move our family from that insane city/state where the culture is corrupted by adult fantasies and delusions. I can assure you that Ascension would not have indoctrinated him but the greater MPS area did and his parents allowed it. Add'l info is already coming out about him bouncing from high school to high school. That's when you make a massive move to get your son to a rural area, home school, take away phones/social media, and touch grass. There are many, many resources to help parents of children to find potential solutions. But, as far as we know, they didn't do that.
Of course God will judge their ultimate fate but I find it wholly appropriate to judge the Catholic who says God is wrong.
Aside: My college roommate's adopted daughter identified as a boy 7th-the beginning of 12th grade. My friend indulged pronouns and name changes and a binder. Her father did not. My friend once said "what if God did make a mistake" and of course I assured her that He never does. How did this whole thing get started you might ask? Playing games on-line with strangers. One such stranger introduced the idea. My friend should have removed ALL screens at the least and seriously considered moving. The psychs were of no help. Perhaps her daughter, who had an open relationship with her bio mom, thought that if she was a boy, her bio mom would have wanted to keep her. Why? Because the bio mom went on to have 3 sons. But no psychs would even attempt to try to get to the root of the problem. She is now a very happy, content college student who will likely regret those years but, thanks be to God, she never had any irreversible / life altering changes.
Most of them encourage it, as do teachers. It's an easy diagnosis, like ADD used to be, but an expensive "fix," requiring a vast array of experts and drugs. Ritalin at least was simple and cheap.
Hm, again, I think I'd do what you say you would do. But I do blame the intimidating nature of these liberals. Too. And they are to blame for his actions to a large degree as well. As well as the parents. And you make a pretty good case for that in this post. It's a very sad thing.
I’ll just say that where my friend lives is very similar to MPS. Also will add that I have a son who is the exact age of this very evil, mentally ill man who took the innocence of so many children and the life of two.
They also lied by omission stating his weapon had ‘Trump’ written on it implying it was some kind of tribute. It said ‘Kill Trump’ on the rifle and also on the optical device. Slime from top to bottom.
ABC News spoke that claim on the air. "The name of President Trump written on the gun", clearly intended to imply Trump support as strongly as the facts could be twisted to do.
"No evidence the shooter targeted Catholics", said by the same people who endlessly insist that everyone who voted against Barack Obama was motivated by racism.
I have a feeling when I'm shooting indiscriminately throught the windows of the Annunciation during morning Mass that I'm probably targeting Catholics, but that's a stretch for the microcephalics at ABC News.
He was specifically targeting Catholic children.
.. anencephalics at ABC News.
Anencephalics have no brain, microcephalics are pinheads.
Either of whom politicize everything suck.
If they're still doing "comment of the week" this one wins by a mile
LOL!
Look, Mr. Deplorable, we *can't* look inside the motivation of a marginalized trans-woman killer!
Our psychic insight only works on the white racists in fly-over states who voted *for* Obama but against Hillary!
Yeah, that leftist logic that asserted that fly-over racists who voted for Obama but failed to turn out for Hillary is amongst the most stupid political arguments I’ve ever heard. And they said it out loud; and often.
It is a clear hallmark introducing the ascendency of magical thinking taking over the Dems. And they just cannot let it go. But for the fact that they 1) brought this on themselves and 2) they express these views with zealousness of religious rage… where was I?
Wowzer! Deplorable, huh? Everyone in flyover country is deplorable. You have stopped being human. Seek help.
I never claimed to be *human,* Katherine!
Just putting on my Hillary Lizard People voice for a little sarcasm!
I found that pretty darned clear as sarcasm, myself.
Seriously miss the point much (and often)?
Clearly sarcasm from Ralph...
“No evidence the shooter targeted Catholics” ARE YOU JOKING? Did they ACTUALLY say that? I wanna tear my hair out holy fuck.
Upper Class Twit of the Year quality.
Bro what?
It's not a reference to you, Molly. It's an allusion to a Monty Python sketch, The Upper Class Twit of the Year Contest, which is hilarious. What I was saying is that the reporter who said there was no evidence that the gunman targeted Catholics is so dumb he or she would qualify to be in such a contest.
ABC also said his messages were critical of Israel neglecting that what he also wrote that "6,000,000 isn't enough" which pertains not to Israel but, rather, to Jews generally.
That's a new height of "anti-Zionism not anti-Semitism"
The trans community here in Minnesota is obsessed with revenge, porn, guns, and mocking Christianity. I have been submerged in their seriously sick online presence for years until they have abandoned Facebook for twitter than X and now Bluesky. I am not a gamer but Twitch is a platform where they seem to find a lot of support. It’s a cult. It can not be argued to be anything else. It’s the same lonely young males in particular who find a willing audience who rachets up their world view, violent fantasies and AGP. These people should be under some kind of watch. They openly call for violence against women, children and Christians all the time. This is not a 1st Amendment issue. This is a terrorism issue.
There's now a Manson-like cult of trans who call themselves the Zizians. They were responsible for the murder of a Canandian Mounty earlier this year.
6 in the US. 3 in ‘22 and 3 in ‘25. If wiki is to be believed anyway
The truth is there are plenty of trans folks trying to live their lives, but the disproportionate amount of violence in that community shouldn't be ignored. Is it mental illness associated with the trans condition? Is it depression spawned from the unfortunate condition that leads them to be medicated with SSRIs and antipsychotics, which seem to cause violent tendencies in some people? A little from column A and a little from column B? Testosterone and other hormone supplementation? Hormones mixed with other meds? I've known some pretty aggressive trans people and it seems like more than a 'chip on the shoulder' situation. I've joked that a trans guy (woman? - the male that wants to be female) is like a woman with serious PMS, but man bones and muscles. Scary.
Start with the premise that you have come to believe that you are a different person than your physical body strongly indicates that you are. I would call it psychic disassociation. Not conducive to good mental health, I would think.
And it takes people much more brilliant than the rest of us to point out that women can have penises. Reality be damned, magical thinking offers much more comfort. But, wouldn’t accepting a false reality to deal with an unacceptable but true reality indicate that those agreeing (including the mental health specialists and “allies”) be suffering from the same delusions by proxy?
It wasn't that long ago that the DSM clearly designated this as a disorder: "Gender Identity Disorder."
Lumping this in with gay rights was a massive mistake. In MN it was literally illegal for any mental health professional to gently direct him to recognize that he is, in fact, male. So when you require by law that nothing but "affirmative" mental health support is available to him, he had no chance to get well and learn to accept himself and his reality. This started when he was a minor. Walz and the MN legislature codified the ban on conversion therapy that made it impossible for him to face reality in a therapeutic setting. He stated himself that the fantasy couldn't hold. He wished he hadn't "brainwashed himself" into believing he was trans. He didn't do it alone, the parents, legislators, teachers, activists, and health professionals along the way each did their part to build up a literal delusion. It had to fracture eventually, and here we are. These deaths belong, in part, to all of them.
I keep hearing about the "plenty of trans folks trying to live their lives," but see no evidence of same. In particular, I see very few trans-identified individuals speaking out against trans violence, or against trans-identified males cheating at women's sports, or the mutilation of children. Why is that, I wonder? Maybe because the silent trans-identified people are in agreement with the activists?
We were told silence is violence, except when it comes to this. They DON'T call it out because it's so pervasive. I mean, just look at the t-shirts and other merchandise about "protect trans kids." The one on the lieutenant governor that is a popular design.. has a giant knife on it. There are other ones about trans rights that have large guns on them.
Democrats and trans activists feed into the phobia indoctrination of this group. A research who used to use the pen name Eliza Mondegreen (I can't remember her actual name) has written extensively on this.
https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-violent-rhetoric-of-trans-activists-has-to-stop/
From that piece: "Take trans activist and American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Chase Strangio. Two years ago, the ACLU lawyer argued that legislation that restricts access to hormones and surgeries for gender-questioning youth is “akin to killing us” and has since claimed that Republican legislators “want to control and eradicate us.”
The person who argued before SCOTUS in Skrmetti (a woman pretending to be a man) is telling people legislation is genociding them.
https://elizamondegreen.substack.com/p/phobia-indoctrination-not-trans-genocide?utm_source=publication-search
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/trans-phobia-indoctrination
what these delusional people are actually admitting is that they would not exist nor survive in a natural setting, but only one in which there are drastic and unnatural medical interventions available. sounds like natural selection has already made its ruling.
“We were told silence is violence, except when it comes to this.”
Nice play on my comment, LOL!
Looks like silence is still collusion with violence, just directed towards a different group of victims than the left planned to target.
Just as the leftists proclaim that it is wrong, racist, etc to eliminate crime in DC, they proclaim it to be genocide when society/legislators want to eliminate the mental illness of trans men wanting to change into women via the use of hormones, drugs and disgusting surgeries. This is all demonic to its core, lies for truth and evil in place of good. And the public is falling for it. Hold on to your hats! We're in for a bumpy ride, people!
I mean I'm sure there are, but I just said that to avoid making a generalization about a group and coming off as, dare I say it - transphobic - hahaha.
The truth is that there is no real movement. No cohesive, singular goal like with something such as gay marriage. This trans thing appeared out of nowhere and it was not a ground-up, grassroots movement based on equality, justice and human rights. No one here gave a shit about trans people. Normies just lumped them in with gay and thought everything was OK. It's a top-down movement from think tanks and corporations to distract and divide. Now that it's a trend, a new victimhood, and a shield to protect people from their bizarre behavior the numbers have exploded with posers. People with true gender dysphoria - not Munchausen or hipster gender dysphoria - is an incredibly small number of people. And those people are not denied any civil right en masse. I would bet that 99.9999% of violence against trans people is when a Jon finds out his prostitute is a guy after the blowjob.
Well you bought the propaganda. Good luck
"Normies just lumped them in with gay and thought everything was OK."
Uh...no. And go piss up a rope. "Normies" didn't do this.
Signed,
A "Normie"
Same as you don`t see the deluded/narcissistic gay men who like to pretend (this month)they are women complain about their fellow travellers only trying to do drag shows for children..and never any shows for adults like retirement homes etc....
Pretty much how I feel about it. And the men wanting to be women are already the lowest of the low and are outcasts as is with a hatred of society so you know… color me skeptical of the whole “plenty just wanting to live their lives” thing.
Because by definition, to call oneself born in the wrong body is to be a LIAR
Well, to be fair, mental illness can produce delusional thinking. Those making the claims are not lying, they believe what they are telling us. But that belief is delusional.
Most of the cases are, at least recently, teen girls going through puberty, often autistic, easily impressionable, and subject to groupthink delusions. They are not in control and often terrified.
It’s the damn activists and irresponsible medical professionals that are the driving force behind a lot of this that are the liars.
Bad parents, homophobic parents, been causing delusional kids since the 1800s when the stupidity of "born in the wrong body" was first labelled.
Well, you won't notice the trans people just living their lives because they are going to work, coming home, not committing crimes or filming themselves being misgendered in public places, hoping to not be noticed. Not every member of a minority feels called to activism.
I can think of a few, like that Buck Angel and Scott something. Both are bio women who call themselves transsexuals I think. But they do appear to be in the minority.
" Is it mental illness associated with the trans condition? Is it depression spawned from the unfortunate condition that leads them to be medicated with SSRIs and antipsychotics, which seem to cause violent tendencies in some people?"
"mental illness" ..."trans condition"... "medicated with SSRIs and antipsychotics"
I think you answered your own questions there.
I'm wondering along the same lines. Hormonal imbalance has long been known as a contributor to aggressive behavior. I watched and listened to Dudett's video and it sounded batshit crazy.
Transtifa
No such thing as "trans folks"
There are two SEXES
ZERO men are EVER women
ZERO people are EVER born in the wrong body
ZERO mammals can EVER change sex
The part where you said "plenty of trans just want to live their lives" is by definition not true. These people who volunteer to have their bodies mutilated and their body functions destroyed with hormones and drugs are beyond the pale. They are so far over the edge and so invested in their mental aberrations as to be completely anti-social. I do not believe they are capable of merely living their lives while being hopped up on drugs and the wrong hormones for their gender. Medical practitioners are creating monsters who can't possibly function as normal-thinking, feeling human beings. They are Dr Mengele's, experimenting like gods on poor, defenseless, sick young people. Lock them up!
Exactly. The prescribers of these meds and hormones that inflame mentally ill young men and women should be prosecuted for murder in these cases. They are knowingly aiding and abetting and exasperating the mentally ill to commit aberrent crimes rather than freeing them from their delusions. The medical practitioners in these cases are just as deranged as the patients. Where did they get their medical degrees? Out of a Cracker Jacks box?
You’re a real riot 🙄 Like a “woman with serious PMS”, but with the male inclination for violence.
Katie Daviscourt, who reports on Antifa's continued protests at the ICE facility in Portland, was looking through court records recently since the protests began, and she noted that 99% of them are "trans" or "non-binary." These are not well people. And yet Democrats want to pretend it's a civil rights issue like any other. Sure, mentally ill people have human rights but it's not a good call to make all of society affirm their delusions (and codify these protections by putting "gender identity" on level with sex).
"Katie Daviscourt, who reports on Antifa's continued protests at the ICE facility in Portland, was looking through court records recently since the protests began, and she noted that 99% of them are "trans" or "non-binary."
Yes. As someone else above noted: they are just cult members.
They’re also obsessed with recruitment and troll for disenfranchised or depressed people looking for an answer. Being a cash cow, the medical community is just as complicit. These people have psychological problems, some quite severe, long before they “discover” they were born in the wrong body. ROGD anyone? The root issues go unaddressed, and then you have carnage or suicide. This is true evil.
Immediately I think of Jeffrey Marsh. That may be the creepiest MFer of all. Staring into the camera with his ridiculous makeup and telling kids HE loves them and that they should go no contact with their parents.
Jeffrey Marsh actually scares the crap out of me. If the eyes are the windows to the soul, one look will tell you who owns his.
Nice hat , Violet ! 😄
You’re a silly, silly boy Pat. If you’ve got studies to prove me wrong, let’s see them. This whole ugly chapter in psychology is starting to unravel as the casualties pile add. Prove me wrong.
Hello, Vi !!!
I wasn't disagreeing with you at all.
I just didn't want you to go to New York.
GB
How are things in Bedford Falls these days, George? ;)
I’m from NY 😃
They have found a hell of a niche as a protected class. It's amazing that such people are considered victims by so many.
Remember - Politically expedient lives matter
and yes.. all about sucking in those vulnerable people. this amazed me,,,who knew.. may these two and their ilk rot forever..no mercy..https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise
I strongly believe the rhetoric employed by trans-activists is entirely inappropriate and serves as a catalyst to the gender-cult mass shooters we’re seeing more and more of.
What worries me is that all the media are making the murderer into a super villain, famous!! I'm afraid this inspires other mentally ill guys wanting to become famous, no matter how, to perform the next massacre. But, hey, great clickbait and a chance to express their virtue.
This must be what FBI Director Patel was referring to as domestic terrorism. Maybe he'll go after them and have them locked up in asylums.
Sounds like Reddit.
Why are you still there? What a cesspool !
One more year until retirement. Then I am gone.
Why is no one tracking these people who lovingly publish online “manifestos?" The govt seems willing and able to track perfectly sane political views it deems potentially dangerous, so why not extend its expertise to perfectly insane views that are explicitly criminal?
I don't like the idea of government tracking anybody unless they have proven, in court, to be a criminal.
Aren't there algorithms used to identify potential terrorists for LE watch-lists? i see these mass shooters as domestic terrorists rather than garden-variety thugs.
They are domestic terrorists. What else could they be called?
I don,t like it either but it (govt) doesn't seem to mind whenever it suits. I can live with the govt hauling online threats into court.
Uh, stop and think about that for a second - no tracking until convicted of a crime? A) How do you think plots and conspiracies are prevented? B) What if you received a tip about an upcoming crime, but refused to act on it because “no conviction”. You’d be an ass and hopefully made into a public spectacle as an object lesson in how not to act/think.
Well, of course there are instances where there is reasonable suspicion that a crime will be committed and surveillance is warranted. That may happen on TV and in the criminal world, but among the regular population, that is a rarity. Nobody can really judge if their oddball friend or relative is capable of going off the deep end. If every wacko with outrageous opinions or even those who deviate from the norm are reported to the authorities and tracked as potential pre-crime suspects, we’d be living in a surveillance state, not unlike what is happening in communist China with AI, facial recognition and other advanced technology.
I'll take my chances with living in a free society with minimal governmental and law enforcement involvement.
There are 2 methods of institutional confinement for 2 different populations, although there is some overlap among the criminally insane. I,ll take my chances with run of the mill thugs, even crazy people, who are at least recognizably human. The criminally insane can't be "dealt with" in any reasonable manner.
"Well, of course there are instances where there is reasonable suspicion that a crime will be committed and surveillance is warranted. That may happen on TV and in the criminal world, but among the regular population, that is a rarity."
Prove that statement- that it's a "rarity".
Are you saying there is no real-world value or application for profiling? Seriously hope you don't have any position of importance in law enforcement...
Rest assured that I would never take up any position in law enforcement. I have too much respect for individual, sovereign liberty.
Profiling may tell you who may have committed a crime or who is likely to commit a crime, but it can't tell you when or if that crime will be committed. You can't foresee the future. Precrime doesn't work and it shouldn't be a thing.
Here is my question to ChatGPT, followed by the summary of its answer which I find to be consistent with my argument.
Q: Are there statistics regarding how many mass shootings or terrorist attacks are pre-emptively thwarted in the US by law enforcement surveillance?
A: Bottom line
Public evidence suggests many U.S. plots and would-be attacks are disrupted, but the share attributable specifically to law-enforcement surveillance programs is small in the available data and not tracked in a consistent public metric. Most disruptions appear to start with tips, informants, targeted investigations, and behavioral-threat assessments, not bulk collection.
Exactly! It’s that sort of childish idealism that got us in this preventable mess
One can be criminal and executing crimes long before getting to court. You just want to wait for the next massacre? Ghoulish...
Perhaps you can cite some instances where law enforcement have demonstrated that they have thwarted imminent mass killings by disturbed, homicidal psychopaths.
I will modify my earlier post by saying, "unless they are known criminals", not necessarily proven and convicted in a court of law.
That works. "Known" crazy people who threaten EXPLICIT harm need to be removed from gen pop. I find it shocking that these people, KNOWN to LE, are allowed the freedom to commit such crimes.
And for that, the bar should be high. The American standard in law should remain "innocent until proven guilty".
Bingo.
That's so funny because the first thing I saw - maybe an X post - was an ammo clip with 'Kill Trump' written on it. So when the a deceitful media tries to deflect from the shooter being trans there is probably a thread to be pulled on with the trans violence angle
Another lie by omission from the CBC, which I wake up to every morning: "The FBI is investigating this as an anti-Catholic hate crime." No mention of the domestic terrorism component, which is clearly the more genuine motive. In Andy Ngo's excellent piece, he cites from this killer's manifesto the desire to inspire others to kill. You only go after children if your goal is to freak people out to the maximum extent possible.
The WH has tweeted a translation of the journal. It covers most of his problems since 7th grade. He is quite introspective at times, and very open about his condition. I would recommend everyone interested to read it. It is fascinating in a horrible way.
This man was a tortured soul who desperately needed help.
And their answer was to turn him into a girl.
I'll be grateful if Matt and Walter skip the topic entirely.
Update - just learned a friend lost an adult child in the west coast. All detailed discussion of losses in families while families are still grieving should be private, not public.
We might consider respecting the feelings of the families before all else.
Then nothing will ever be discussed, because "closure" is as elusive as The Loch Ness Monster.
And you, by clearly and flatly stating "his" weapon, seem to be about on The Times's level. Why is "who" the shooter is such a ridiculous debate with everyone? Some asshole becomes the latest mass-shooting fuckwad. Maybe we should talk about victims vs. identities and whether the shooter loved or hated Trump?
There are an awful lot of mass-shooting fuckwads around, and any progress towards a possible solution demands a thorough exploration of motives and causes. If drugs/teachers/parents/bullies/isolation/illness/electronics/ideology etc etc are common denominators, one or in particular combination, they need to be identified so that possible alleviations may be put in place. You can"t hope to solve a problem without accurately naming the stresses. The idea of a young man targeting large numbers of little kids after barricading the doors to prevent escape is more serious than just some asshole acting out his fuckwad fantasies.
I understand your frustration at what you consider knee-jerk reactions - it's like mine when politicians start yammering about gun-control, but these mass murder/suicides have become a terrible symptom of rampant cultural disease.
It’s so many things in our present culture. The entertainment industry has to be addressed and never is in these discussions. Probably a good 80 percent of what people are watching is gore porn. There’s something like 8 spinoffs from The Walking Dead. Are flesh eating zombies really that compelling?? We’re changing people’s brain chemistry. I don’t know what the answer is.
By electronics I mean to include movies, tv, video, games, social media, AI, etc etc etc
We are letting our children swim in a sewer.
Homeschool, limited electronics, family dinner table.
Unlimited reading and discussion from the western canon.
A small theologically conservative church wouldn't hurt either imo.
These very bad times call for drastic measures.
A cautionary tale: https://archive.is/Yt5h5
I hope you’re being tongue in cheek. Can you believe the suggestions you listed might be considered “drastic measures??”
Nope, perfectly serious. It has worked amazingly well for us. I happen to believe you reap what you sow. My ideas of fruitful harvest might not be everyone's, and that's fine. To each his own.
There have always been murders and always will be.
No one obeys the 10 commandments.
They're nothing more than a virtue signal, a set of regulations elites hold above the heads of the plebs, when it suits them.
That is nonsense imo. Without straining towards virtue, life would be a hellscape. Without rules, we live in a natural state, which is chaos. "The noble savage" is a romantic fantasy with no basis in reality.
You are one of a very, very, very few who actually want to know motive to understand why this continues to occur.
There’s one more common denominator—guns. But no one wants to talk about that, like no one is actually concerned with what social media is doing to people’s brains. Drugs won the Drug War, so it doesn’t do any good to talk about that. Bullies have been around forever. The teaching profession gets nowhere near the respect it used to. Too damn many parents, having never said NO to a child, wonder why the child goes looking for a Columbine.
And it’s all about distraction. It’s one more thing to keep us unfocused on the ongoing theft of the bottom 90%’s money by the top 10%.
No one in power wants mass shootings to end. 1. They keep us distracted, and 2. The blame game between the tribes reinforces number 1.
Hence my point—who gives a shit who did it? It’s done, and can’t be undone. Can’t blame it all on the media either, since they know damn well by our clicks and likes what stories we’re looking at.
If we don’t give a shit who did it, or why, it will continue. The past can't be undone, but if there's no hope for better, there,s no hope at all. I don't want to live that way, however much the truth inclines.
That said, i am as pessimistic as you. All the horror rings hollow, until it happens to us.
The real horror is that we throw up our hands in the pretend horror that lets it continue to happen.
Of course it will continue. No one is seriously addressing causes, and there are a LOT of guns. You're exactly right in pointing out our throwing up of hands and pearl clutching when it happens, but everyone's fine soon after, and hey! it's a holiday weekend! College football starts! Jerry Jones proves he's as bad at running a Dallas team as Nico Harrison with the Mavericks! Distractions.
It will almost surely continue for us as a society but I’m here to preach that individual parents can remove their children from toxic influences if they care enough to make hard choices.
"There’s one more common denominator—guns"
Just as in all knife-attacks the common denominator is knives, and in bombings the common denominator is bombs and in vehicles-driving-through-crowd attacks the common denominator is vehicles....
" No one is seriously addressing causes, and there are a LOT of guns"
There were a lot of guns 60 years ago, too- and not so many mass shootings. Some other "common denominators" have changed since then. Any thoughts on what those might be?
The most obvious common denominator is people who are willing to kill others.
The weapon of choice may change, but the evil behind the act will always be the same. The erosion of the sanctity and value of human life is what we may want to look into a bit more thoroughly.
Murder has always happened, all the time, everywhere, and will continue. The only way to end that would be to magically grant us all perfect living conditions. Ain't happening. So deal.
Of course it will continue to happen. Who said it wouldn't? I'm not having trouble dealing with anything. The 30,000+ annual gun deaths in this country will continue, including about 4 children per day on average. If no one can get excited over 4 kids wasted every day, why should I bother with 2, 12, or 26 or more happening all at once? Drops in the bucket. No one wants to fix it.
According to the Brady Institute: "60% of gun deaths are suicide and 37% are homicide — including the 1% of mass shootings. The remaining 3% of gun deaths include law enforcement involved shootings, unintentional shootings and those that were undetermined.
"...30,000+ annual gun deaths in this country..."
Majority of those are suicide, it should be noted.
Because he was mentally ill and a manifestation of that is his "gender dysphoria". It's in the DSM-5. Now add prescription or perhaps illicit drugs and they could be contributing factors. It's critical to name the problem and challenge all medical professionals to figure out how best to treat the mentally ill.
I would much prefer to put those beautiful innocent Catholic children and seniors who were 100% targeted to get all of the attention. Instead the media would prefer to take a side and most of us are effing sick of it!
It's not "picking a side". Governments should grant no fake sex id.
ZERO men are EVER women
ZERO people are EVER born in the wrong body
ZERO mammals can EVER change sex
The media absolutely “picks sides”. They are complicit in the evil when they can’t see who the actual victims are. And you’re correct, zero mammals can ever change their sex. It’s the great lie.
Tons of Conservatives think it's possible to be born in the wrong body, they just believe the numbers are smaller.
This isn’t a conservative thing. This is a human - science thing. The continuum of one’s hormones (more or less progesterone/estrogen) is broad, which can obviously make a man or woman more or less feminine or masculine. Thinking you’re born “in the wrong body” is no different than the 85 lb woman who thinks they are fat. It’s all the same body dysmorphia.
You measure "Conservatives" by weight? So, four 500lb fatboy conservatives= 1 ton = twenty 100lb skinny conservatives?
The math is too much to think about.
1. We know full well you wouldn't be saying that if the shooter was a conservative Christian MAGA guy who shot up a bunch of trans kids.
2. This dude was a dude. It's not a matter of opinion or something that can be changed with a label. Humans come in two sexes, the technology does not exist to turn one into the other, and people who think otherwise are simply deluding themselves.
Well, you missed my entire point.
I’ll go slower. Whenever a mass shooting occurs, dipshits in both tribes want to know if they can blame it on the other. That’s more important than whether the fucker gets caught. With no concern at all for those killed or their families. It’s all about “can we put points on the board?” It’s retarded.
Your comment was itself an effort to put points on the board, as you say. I responded to that directly. Can't imagine you didn't get what I was saying, so I guess you're still trying to score points.
The bedrock reality is that people cannot change our sex, however much the NYT, or you, or anyone would like to pretend we can. Pointing that out isn't engaging in status competition. It isn't even making an argument. It's just stating a fact.
You're treating a delusional mental illness as if it is a legitimate point of view. And you're doing it to "score points". I'm guessing most of the people you know are doing the same thing. Please stop.
(Sigh) The story is not about whether one can change one’s sex or not. Take your bedrock realities somewhere relevant. The story is about innocent people being murdered.
Then why did you bring it up in your initial comment?
FFS! Not you again! How is it your hot takes are always so off-base?
In English, please?
95% of violent crime is by men.
This dude is a dude, the delusions he lives by make him more violent, not less violent.
What I meant was calling things like family dinner time, etc “desperate measures.”
There’s no possible way to track everyone who makes insane violent threats, even when accompanied by acts that bring them to the attention of authorities. We lack the manpower and infrastructure now to do that, even when its in our face. And that’s where we do have the political will which, frankly, we mostly don’t. There’s very little that can be done UNTIL somebody crosses the line into actual criminal conduct - its the price we are already paying for living in a free society. Then the obvious happens and everyone scratches their head or gets indignant “why didn’t somebody do something”!? Many times, someone did report something disturbing about the individual, but “the system” couldn’t deal effectively with the information because, for the most part, it had its hands more than full triaging cases of actual fuckups who had already done something awful. Forget worries about a surveillance state - the volume of criminal or near-criminal conduct in society already overwhelms the system. What is absurd is the lengths officials must go to and the obstacles put in the way of the state acting when some disturbed person is right on the edge of acting out, has made their plans explicit, and who has a proven history of criminal insanity. Involuntary commitment is next to impossible. And its not an “only on tv dramas” situation. Go spend a week with the county prosecutors of any mid-size metro area and you’d see the true amount of outrageous shit people pull (you may have to spend an extra week in a rural area, but only because of reduced population density). So what you’re advocating is essentially already the default status quo and it isn’t working. To REQUIRE a criminal conviction just takes it to the next level of insanity.
To channel John McEnroe, You cannot be serious! Just when you think it's impossible for them to sink any lower...
What kind of meds. was the murder on?
crux of the biscuit right there.
anti-depressants to numb the depression
makes you not care . . .not care . . not good
One has only to read the black box warning labels on SSRIs and anyone sane will understand why school shootings became a "thing" with their introduction and widespread use! Another in a long list of #pharmacrimes against humanity
Cross-sex hormones also wreak havoc. And I've been on an SSRI for years and would have offed myself long ago without it. They may be overprescribed, but they have their uses. And trust me, I care . . . too much sometimes.
Thank you for this post. SSRIs are over-prescribed for sure, but they also save lives. My wife for one. The "care....too much sometimes," quote is spot on. I hope you're doing well.
Thank you. I live and don’t just survive. I hope the same is true for your wife.
They totally have their uses, but I think the point is those drugs can have side effects for some people that include violent or suicidal thoughts. I don't think there is a mass shooter that wasn't on some form of meds. I also think you have a point that needs to be examined, which is the mix of those drugs AND hormone therapies
You have a point, but when it comes to mass shooters on meds, is it really cause and effect or are mass shooters just suffering from mental illness and people have been trying to treat it?
I read/heard somewhere that if you give a man or boy female hormones it doesn't turn them into a beautiful young woman, but actually a menopausal old woman.
As a menopausal woman myself, you do NOT want to go there.
For many years we've been going through the same thing, but with more official pressure, regarding the prescription of benzodiazepine tranquilizers. Without going into detail I will tell you that I have combat - adjacent permanent injuries. Ideally, I would be prescribed 5 mgs of clonazepam at bedtime, and I was, until a few years ago, when what one of my doctors called "a reign of terror" began to be prosecuted in my state by its medical bureaucrats. There may be a doctor somewhere in this state who would prescribe those 5 mgs per evening, but I doubt it.
They're terrorized by the possibility that their licenses to practice will be yanked. Because they are, my dose was abruptly cut from 5 mgs to 3. That isn't enough to provoke a crisis, but my sleep hasn't been as good since.
Like SSRIs, benzodiazepines are major league drugs, and they should never be regarded casually, but one interesting quality they have is that when a patient reaches a needed dose, it's rare that eventually he finds himself needing a higher dose. Yet about fifteen years ago, a superspreader - like phenomenon of horror about what benzodiazepines MIGHT do to long time medical users of them in large amounts swept the medical profession.
I regard it as medicine's first major mass idiocy of the 21st century; medicine is prone to mass idiocies the way a boyhood friend of mine who died early of lung cancer was prone to pleurisy when we were children.
Lillia, I wish you the best with your SSRI.
Good to hear the SSRIs helped you, but it's a fact that some (not all) will have negative psychological side effects.
I’ve not actually met anyone that did have a negative reaction, at least to the one I take.
Many patients suffer significant side effects to these drugs but take them anyway because they otherwise wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. I've known some suicides but there was always plenty going on besides the drugs. I don't know any mass murderers. I also don't know, and neither does anyone else, how these drugs mix with cross-sex hormones to affect a developing brain. I'd hazard a guess that the results might be far short of optimal.
Glad to hear that! As should be evident to everybody, we do not all react to pharmaceuticals the same way. We don't all react to bee stings the same way. Or anything else for that matter. The COVID shots are a prime example.
Thank you. I woild hate for all people on SSRIs to be stigmatized.
We’ll always have anecdotes.
Both ways. Some people are allergic to bananas. I knew one once. But nobody is suggesting nobody gets to eat bananas.
Either your meds are affecting your ability to logic or you never had the ability.
How many allergy meds include a black box warning about their potential to cause suicidal and/or homicidal thoughts/tendencies? Oh, right! The answer is exactly NONE.
Read my comment again.
Wasn’t it proven a few years ago that while SSRIs target serotonin uptake, the evidence linking serotonin and depression is extremely weak? I remember the outcry that SSRIs work, even though we can’t prove how they work!
They work to relieve my anxiety, particularly as fall comes on. They’ve worked for other people that I know. It’s not something I have to take on faith. But my problem is anxiety, not depression.
You've been duped
How? Are you telling me that I didn't experience what I've experienced? The science behind SSRIs isn't hard. I'd read up on it before I start yammering on about how other people have been "duped."
Its very likely that you are both right. Something can help one person but hurt the next, there is no drug or treatment that provides 100% guaranteed outcome. Which is why i support vaccines but 100% oppose vaccine mandates.
I myself have very peculiar reactions to small amounts of some substances, like echinacea, certain fillers and "inert' substances used in meds.
I have a mild dairy intolerance but if i eat a sausage that uses milk solids as fill that is 24 hours of pain, sweating, cramps, lower body explosions, etc.
There is becoming lots of data that SSRI's make "some" people psychotic, sociopaths, just like some people develop irreversible mental issues from THC where others exhibit no issues (this is where the explosion of drug addicts comes from, decriminalize THC and give access to all and that small susceptable percentage suddenly because a huge number of actual people, lives ruined forever.)
What a rude, asinine thing to say. If we were all having an actual instead of virtual conversation, and this were still a decent society, someone would slug you.
I’m pretty sure his vape pen wasn’t for SSRIs.
He had extreme guilt over vaping, and eventually gave it up for cigarettes.
And hormones to change your gender
Have you no shame, NYT! It takes ignorance and the bad faith of politics to overlook the well described negative effects of the kind of extensive hormone altering drugs that sex changes require. Even the relative smaller doses taken by women bodybuilding for strength and muscle building have been implicated in dangerous health effects. Taking the amount of testosterone required to lose female characteristics and take on male features is a massive assault on the brain and body. Doing this to the developing bodies of minors is nothing less than disgraceful, criminal. The same is true for biological males seeking to lose male characteristics by increasing the amount of estrogen. THese dangers are not only supported by common sense and observation, but also decades of research and clinical evidence.
I wonder if anyone is keep stats? Not all of these stories make national news. Google Connor MacCallister
did. wow.... brutal. just like he wanted it
She. Fake man.
Probably started with ritalin and then added on more chemicals as the years went by.
Please read the book, "Delivered From Distraction," by Edward Hallowell, M.D., and John Ratey, M.D. The book is about ADD, and it deserves its status as a classic.
ADD is real. It has nothing to do with the way a child is raised. It's a brain based disorder. Four parts of the brain show up with differences from the norm on imaging studies of ADD patients.
I've GOT the damned brain type, so don't expect me to remember which parts of the brain they are, but there are four which are slightly but significantly smaller than the same parts in you normies. This makes the wiring in those parts of the brain somewhat looser, and yes, that is where the term "he's not too tightly wrapped" comes from.
Because of the brain differences, what the authors liken to "gates" in parts of the brain fail to slam shut as they should when the sufferer needs to calm down.
Ritalin works by increasing the ability of those gates to slam shut.
I read "driven to Distraction" years ago, same authors, wonderful book
It really is. And people, children most of all, deserve the dignity which comes with others' awareness that the person is not a hellion, is not acting in bad faith, but is a victim of a central nervous system which has some kinks which can be medicated.
You'll find this funny: years ago, I had a fine neurologist who himself had severe ADD. He refused to take medication for it because he said it impaired his creativity. He and I hit it off in many ways and he did me a lot of good. This was at a time when prescriptions were still handwritten. New patients were warned by a nurse always to check their prescriptions before they left the office. The doctor might have forgotten to sign a prescription.
The doctor's ADD was so bad that, unmedicated as he was, he needed a nurse with a particularly strong personality to ''manage" him. At my first appointment with him, I heard her whisper/yell, "Kevin, you're fifteen minutes behind!" He had gotten caught up in reading something.
All children with ADHD deserve to be blessed with parents and teachers like your neurologist's nurse.
Too many otherwise end up in failure - or jail.
They won’t be reporting on that issue until we make it illegal for pharma to advertise. Basic corruption.
Absolutely true.
right on. the media and politicians have been protecting pharmakeia for a long time. its the fucking drugs. millions of people have firearms and they dont go out on shotting sprees. the autopsies of shooters are always covered up ot never even conducted because of the drugs.
https://substack.com/@sharylattkisson/note/c-149851136?r=16j2g&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I have written on this extensively for years, going back to Columbine. Harris was on Luvox, whose side effects include dissociation and akathisia. It was originally believed that Harris and Klebold committed suicide when they realized they were trapped in the school's library, but it was actually Harris who killed Klebold, then took his own life.
Thousands of murders are attributed to this family of drugs. England bans their use for anyone under the age of 21. After HIPPA kicked in, no one reports what Adam Lanza or any of the other drug zombies were on, but you can assume it was from this family of drugs.
Better living through chemistry.
I am not medically trained, but I am the widow of a wonderful man who took different anti-epileptic medicines over the years for his partial epilepsy. Several of these made him paranoid. One made him suicidal. When those particular drugs were discontinued, he returned to himself. I keep wondering how long this neurological devastation because of pharmaceuticals will go on. Illegal drugs can also cause paranoia and schizoid breaks. Why is the Left so invested in their gun control narrative that they give only glancing notice to the role of drug-induced mental illness in these mass shootings? Why do many on the Left continue to argue for "housing first" and "harm reduction" when it's clear that the mentally ill and drug addicted should receive treatment in long-term residential facilities where drugs of all kinds can either be monitored for efficacy or banned. Families and jails are now the caretakers for the severely--sometimes dangerously--mentally ill and/or addicted.
"Advocates" for the mentally ill crippled our institutional solutions for the the problem back in the '80s. Now it's near impossible to get an unstable individual committed because they have to have buy-in. There's no committing them against their will.
My sister-in-law's schizophrenic and we were unable to do anything with her until she got into it with the cops. Needless to say, these types of "solutions" can get someone killed. How many seriously mentally ill people, like the Annuciation shooter, are wandering around at this moment simply because they haven't killed someone yet? What's it going to take?
Clearly it's madness that some of the very drugs used to treat depression in this country state on the box a very real possibility of suicidal/homicidal ideation. It's like treating an alcoholic with Everclear.
The media has its biases and this incident lays some of them bare. We're not allowed to honestly address gender dysphoria or any other psychosis for fear of upsetting the subject. The Left will push housing (does nothing), and "harm reduction" (polypharmacy). I cringe when I hear the talking heads say the shooters needed medical intervention because that only means on thing: more pills. Like that's solved anything yet.
And anti-Catholic bigotry is probably the most acceptable bigotry in the country as far as the media's concerned. They can't bring themselves to say shooting through a church window during a morning kids' Mass is anti-Catholic. They wouldn't say shit with a mouthful, apparently.
Tim Walz was given a chance a few years ago to extend state security to private schools. He did nothing. However, he fretted over the trans community like they were newborns. He was sure to protect them.
But who's protecting us?
We have to protect ourselves apparently. My late afternoon walking route takes me by the local Catholic church/school. Yesterday, the parish priest was sitting outside and we chatted for a bit and this came up in conversation. Because of this event, they will now be locking the doors once the school mass starts and a couple of the parishioners who have been in law enforcement will be outside keeping an eye on things.
Whoa.....never knew that Harris killed Klebold, then himself!
Did you notice, we never heard much about the pair after the shooting? Or their parents. Where in God's name were the parents?
Harris' dad took a call from the gun shop. The owner said "Your silencers came in." Harris' dad says "I didn't order any silencers." and hangs up. If it were you, don't you think you'd ask your kid what's up with that? But nothing.
Dissociation is where mentally you can't separate reality from fantasy. The boys had a programmers kit to build battlezones in Doom (remember Doom?). They recreated their high school in the game and, from there, they plotted how they'd approach the school, which classrooms they'd go to, etc. Their plan was to demand a plane and then fly it into a building for the finale.
This was long before 9/11. Evil has an imagination most of us can't comprehend.
So crazy. And look how little we've learned from Columbine--from the murderous thugs in their black coats.
Our politicians via the media are shit which is all too often why we can't get to solutions. It's disgusting.
Gun-control is the easy way out and ALWAYS the road most taken by politicians.
There are so many questions to ask and be answered before gun-control platitudes come up. Shootings are the result, not the cause.
"Evil has an imagination most of us can't comprehend."
IMO, satan is fully-grounded in the reality of the human condition- including ALL of our vulnerabilities. he doesn't use imagination, he just starts the avalanche high above the village below, then sits back to admire the wreckage...
Me either! Makes sense though. Another cover up.
Harris killed Klebold? Citation required.
I'm not your research assistant.
Ok, liar.
Gosh, I wish I really cared what you thought.
Excellent essay, thank you for linking us to it.
Yet another complicating factor (as though we needed more) is the significant number of drug-resistant patients.
What really gets overlooked is some people are simply broken. In previous societies, we banished or killed such broken people, because they are toxic to society. This is not a "fixable" thing. Some people aren't meant for the living. Our society is way too death-phobic. Life and Death. Those who don't want to be alive shouldn't be coerced to live.
Pscyhiatry is a scam, it's a pseudoscience.
None of this bullshit is fixable.
We need to get away from the "fix it" model.
Can you imagine SSRI’s plus Estrogen, plus pot, plus maybe a little anti anxiety and/or ADHD meds and then top it off with Pabst Blue Ribbon. Who is the medical professional prescribing this? What are the mental health records, what was the treatment plan. It is a public safety and human rights too if you ask me.
About 20 years ago my aunt was on so many drugs she could barely function. The “doc” or as I like to say Quack who gave her these (including Methadone- cuz every elderly lady needs that). eventually lost his license.
That video.
Completely demonic - wth is going on?
That’s the most relevant question, and no mainstream media outlet will ask it. All of the news is in the negative spaces.
Well, since the perpetrator was in the process of a gender change, that would be sex hormones, which are proven to alter behavior. The state-run media does backflips to avoid that inconvenient fact, however.
There is no evidence of this.
There is some (and mounting) evidence that trans women who take estrogen for years are at risk for dementia. And for strokes. And cancer.
Hormones?
08/28/25: NYT-Pravda Uppers. ABC-TV-Pravda Quaaludes. NBC-TV-Pravda Poppers.
probably some. b ut more likely. a followers of these despicable cultists.https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise
Thanks for wasting a minute of my day by failing to draw any kind of sane link to the thrust of that article. Blocked.
what they werent taking might be a shorter list
Want some?
Ovary-tine.
left wing extremist commits horrifying murder
checks all the boxes:
--rabidly anti Trump, wants to kill him
--rabidly anti Semite, wants to kill Jews
--LBGTQUVWXYZ supporter
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but we're not supposed to draw any conclusions
hmm
remembering that poll in April that showed over 1/2 of "liberals" favoring violence....
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Trannys keep slaughtering innocent Christian children, yet right wing extremists are supposedly the biggest threat Americans face. If a right wing extremist ever decides to go slaughter everyone at one of those mutilation factories, you can bet every headline will make sure you know it was a right wing extremist with ties to Donald Trump that committed the targeted hate crime. There’s no reason to bother with these fake journalists any longer. Unless you’re looking for material for a stand up act.
The whole "right-wing extremists are the greatest threat facing our country" thing was so ludicrous and laughable I thought no one would ever take that brand of Democrat seriously ever again. I was wrong.
I have a great friend that's a Democrat that has slowly gone Leftist (seems to be drifting back toward the middle now) not by choice, but because he didn't realize CNN, MSNBC, NYT, everything was poisoning his brain. He thought that was the news.
Anyway, he started buying guns. He has an amazing collection of great guns. The rabbit hole he went down learning about guns and becoming an enthusiast rivals any right-wing country boy I've ever known. The reason he stocked up? After the 2016 election he was convinced white nationalists would be kicking in his doors (he's white). I said, "if anyone is kicking in your doors or climbing in your windows, it ain't going to be a white nationalist."
Matt and Walter's satirical description of the NYT as a "government in exile" has opened my eyes. All my friends who quote "The Times" are also people who believe everything that is wrong is because of Trump and the "terrible times" his election has inflicted on "our democracy".
Does he still vote for people who would like to make him a criminal simply for owning all that stuff, and think that it's the other side who are authoritarian?
Yes and yes. Interesting, right? He does start hoarding things like XL magazines when word of them being banned comes down. An unusual paradox to live in.
Progressives are the left and it is progressives who embrace crime and violence as legitimate career choices. It pays well, and you don't have to do much more than show up when the bat (shite crazy) signal is projected into the sky.
With the USAID money all but cut off, I doubt their stupid protests will be attracting significant numbers any more.
The chief of police in mpls is named O’Hara. Chief O’Hara may have put out the bat signal after consulting commissioner Gordon but who knows. Batman can fight joker, riddler, and king Tut but he cannot stop this kind of violence.
Especially when he is no longer trying to.
This person was not a left-wing extremist. He references a popular right-wing, pro-gun podcaster and says he should be president. His video is a mosaic of shooters' names, racist language and Neo-nazi references. There was no coherent philosophy in any of it. Don't politicize what happened.
Update: It appears his dad worked for Esri for 30 years. Huge intel contractor that works with DoD, CIA, Lockheed, etc. This might explain why he was using Russian, which always struck me as odd. Also might give some insight into his mindset.
Profile on Linked In, Flash Intel, Scrubbed from Dun and Bradstreet
https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/events/defense-intelligence-summit/agenda?date=2025-07-15
Yes, he may have had an incoherent point of view, but the NYT chose to only print elements that carried their leftist narrative, e.g., not clarifying that Trump wasn't just "mentioned", but the exhortation was to kill him. Also, not to list the number of attacks on Christian churches and schools was blatant bigotry. Catholic Voice has reported that in the past few years, these attacks have numbered in the hundreds. Both this attack and the MSM reportage of it are hate crimes.
I agree the reporting is disturbingly skewed. I'm not okay with that. The NYT should have mentioned what you point out. But to say he was a left-wing extremist doesn't fit who this person seemed to be. If anything, the lack of coherence and any clear motive seems like a sign of BPD - but that's an amateur take.
He was nuts first and foremost, but if we're going to play the political affiliation game (and we sure would if he could be cast as a righty) he strikes me as much more left than right. I suspect he mentioned Brandon H. in order to mess with people and cause the sort of conversation we're having right now.
What would the NYT and the rest of the left wing media coverage look like if a guy wearing a MAGA hat and an NRA coat went into a gay bar and shot it up? Would they be promoting the "let's not jump to conclusions" narrative. Would they be trying to prevent any backlash on conservatives? It makes me wonder if they are all literally Insane?
they're not insane, just liars and parasites.
They are all three.......
Imagine if that guy had been at 1/6.
There was one J6. "Jessica" Watkins. He was let off in Trump's blanket pardon of J6ers. I think he was responsible for amassing weapons outside the Capitol that day, but I don't think he actually had any inside (unless I'm mistaken). (I got into a back and forth with him on X once and I think he was remorseful. I remember he didn't like how he looked in photos from that day... LOL.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oath-keepers-jessica-watkins-sentenced-prison-january-6-2021-attack/
They are certainly not insane. They lack integrity, are sell-outs to the Democratic party, as their readership is 98% Democrats. Even at that, they are losing readership as the Internet eclipses them. They are desperate and will stoop as low as they have to in order to stay relevant. Shaming them will have no effect. Thank you, Matt, and others who call them out. This is how we the scandalized stay centered, and hopeful. Bravo, Matt!
Reading the reader comments sections after several such articles will give you an excellent idea of the types of readers the NY Times is hanging desperately onto. Mostly highly “committed” (or about to be) pseudo intellectual leftists, with a smattering of sensible “old style liberals” who get shouted down with massive sloganeering any time they challenge the editorial wisdom. These people will keep the NYT afloat for some time.
hell a a lone wolf jihadist shot up Pulse nightclub killing dozens and the story next day was Republican Ideas Kill.
Would they be mocking prayer if it was a mosque? I was about to add synagogue but remembered Jews are no longer a favored group to them. And they are right now encouraging backlash on gun owners, so yes they'd be calling for blood if a right-coded person did something like this.
They are..........
Wow. “Readers, these are the facts, but you are not reach this conclusion”. I don’t know what the Times is doing here, but it certainly isn’t journalism.
Ha, they stopped doing journalism a very long time ago
Unlike every other topic, where the headline is "Giant Douche Said This; Here's What You Need to Know" about it.
These reactions make me wonder what would happen if, God forbid, we had another 9/11-type attack. Not that our response back then (war wise, Patriot Act-wise) was necessarily smart, but there was a true sense of unity as a country. Today I fear it would be another divisive flashpoint that we’d endlessly argue about.
You'd be surprised but within days the left was warning about Islamophobia, some were claiming "we have to put it in context and many opposed even the incursion into Afghanistan claiming we should just arrest Bin Laden. To give one example Cheryl Crow made the brilliant statement that "If we dont want war we shouldn't have enemies." This prompted Andrew Slullivan's classic piece "The Deep Thought of Cheryl Crow." I remember it like it was yesterday. It drove me and many others like Glenn Reynolds and Roger Simon right out of the Democratic party.
Yup, I remember it too, Freedom Lover. I saw the Towers burn with my own naked eyeballs from the Jersey palisades. This pathology of blaming the victim reached its highest point on October 7, 2023 when those who were raped until their pelvises were broken, burned alive, beheaded with shovels, and kidnapped and tortured were depicted within minutes as deserving of their fate. The Left looks upon the Face of Evil and then kisses it full on the mouth.
I watched the Pentagon burn from my living room window and I completely agree about the Left just sticking their metaphorical tongues deep down the gaping maw of evil.
I don't know why I am continually surprised that every time a tragedy occurs, the Democrat Party talking point is to stick up for the perpetrator.
Who was the victim and who was the perpetrator in your scenario?
Um... I'm amazed that I would be asked to clarify who the victims and who the perpetrators of the atrocities committed on October 7, 2023 were... and so I won't attempt to. If you can't figure that out, Cosmo T Kat, I cannot help you.
According to educated sources who have been working on deeper intelligence than the daily newspaper, the consensus is that more Israelis were killed by the IDF, from tanks and helicopters, than were killed by Hamas. Their data was drawn from eyewitness, active soldiers, and the evidence of automobiles incinerated snd buried after the initial attack.
“Feb 09, 2025
Ex Israel Army Chief Admits Using Hannibal Directive Against Own Soldiers”
This is also consistent with the motivation of Hamas to take live hostages for the purpose of exchange. My sources are the Israeli Press and independent experts who have analyzed this data thoroughly.
There is no more room for lies in this tragic world.
And here come the Nazis right on schedule.
"...more Israelis were killed by the IDF, from tanks and helicopters, than were killed by Hamas..." Can you even hear yourself? Only the last line of your post rings true; you should commit it to memory.
You shouldn't be since there conflicting reports of who did what and why. I wonder which version you embrace.
You are one sick Nazi
I'll pray for you.
I wouldn’t be surprised, I was there like you were. And I remember those voices too. But my memory is that they were a very small albeit vocal minority, and the majority of people thought they were idiots and treated them as such.
The same is true now. Most people I know have no sympathy for a murderer who shoots up a church.
Agree, but whose voices are loudest?
I have noticed that the loudest voices are the most desperate. They are unable to maintain in their desperation, and 'hop like birds between opinions", to quote a famous prophet who worried like you do. And certainly the "priests of Ba'al" continue to do damage. But in the end, I believe the steadfast voices will prevail this time.
"All we are saaaaayyyyying, is give peace a chance."
I think you must be mis-remembering the title of the piece; it is apparently this, from Salon in January 2003:
https://www.salon.com/2003/01/15/crow_2/
No I am not misremembering it. The original piece was written in his blog The Dish and was titled as I say it. I have never seen this and I dont read and have never read Salon. Its either another piece or a reprint of his blog piece with a different title.
Couldn't find it ... but AI had a perspective: "
The search phrase "Sullivan The Deep Thought of Cheryl Crow" appears to be a typo for Sheryl Crow, a well-known American singer-songwriter. A specific work or concept by this name does not exist. However, the phrase is likely a reference to her introspective lyrics and candid commentary on personal experiences and social issues. . . In a 2024 interview with The Guardian, Crow reflected on the best value she could teach her children. She responded that she wants to help them reconnect with their innate sense of empathy, which she feels people learn to "desensitize" themselves from over time. . ."
AI is completely wrong. The essay was a condemnation of the absurd anti American left using Crow's statement as an example. It was written in his Blog back in the good old days of the original Blogosphere so I doubt it's even available online any longer. Its 24 years old.
Portends a lot of what is to come ... and overcome in search of veracity in journalism!!
Here is Andrew Sullivan’s essay on Sheryl Crow, on SALON: https://www.salon.com/2003/01/15/crow_2/
Many thanks!!!
https://www.salon.com/2003/01/15/crow_2/
To be fair some on the left waited until October 8 to blame the Jews for their own slaughter.
Crisis to crisis no solutions forthcoming. This shooting/shooter event is yet another reflection of the mal pathology poisoning the American psyche--American life --and American discourse. The MSM distortion of American life and healthy human reality is exactly why We the People are all in on subscription journalism. Again corny me: Truth is light. A healthy Republic cannot exist inside a lie. The children in the church and the child with the gun were all OUR children. The lie is an industrial for profit enterprise and this tragedy is the lie made manifest.
There was more unity than we had prior to 9/11 where the Democrats cut Bush up every single day as having stolen the election. But it really didn't last that long. A few months maybe.
For sure. But at least we had a few months and some unity that would happened was awful and we needed to punish those who did it and make sure it could never happen again. Then it all went down the toilet.
The unity frightened the Globalists/Democrats. So, they came up with Identity Politics. Country divided. Problem solved.
yup. all unified behind the patriot act. right on schedule...
Can't find the reference anymore, but a young woman wrote a piece years later about how she was studying abroad in Paris on 9/11 and had a left-wing anti-American friend group, but when the planes hit she was horrified. Then her friends called to invite her to a party to celebrate the attack, and she realized just how radical they were.
The Left hasn't changed. The Left has been what it is for hundreds of years. What changed is social media and smartphones. Now groups like those 9/11-celebraters have a lot more influence, which has created more of them, and they aren't afraid to broadcast who they are to any audience.
In the 2002 election cycle, Democrat candidates fell over themselves to campaign as being friends with GWB. They ran ads with videos of themselves hugging GWB. The vibe was that you had to transcend partisanship, and the more you did that the more you deserved votes. It's inconceivable that such "unity wins elections" messaging would emerge today, no matter the catastrophe that preceded it. I blame the increased strength of internet bubbles for that.
But a change in the power of these bubbles is not the same as saying they didn't exist 25 years ago.
if we ever get rid of the deep states FISA 702 system and their illegal mass surveillance, they will false flag another 9/11 and blame us.
Ugh, that brought us the stupid Patriot Act. We are now on notice that no catastrophe or emergency, no matter how real or urgent it seems, is important enough to make us give up our individual rights, even "temporarily".
That's an entirely different conversation.
This happened, the San Bernardino attack. President Obama immediately went on TV to scold Americans about our Islamophobia.
What is the value of "a true sense of unity as a country" when it is the emotional response to a highly suspicious event that results in the illegal attack on another nation on the other side of the globe, and the deaths of millions of innocent people? It could be argued that unity only has value when it is based on truth and justice.
Yes that's what the left sounded like after 9/11. Thanks for providing an example.
I remember when you couldn't find a flag on sale after 9/11, they were so popular. Now, people are afraid to hang them outside their home.
Norm MacDonald was more than a little prescient. https://x.com/normmacdonald/status/809637479674281984?lang=en
The governor of California blamed the republicans even though Minnesota is run by a democratic governor and democratic mayor and there were 3 attacks in California this week with one attack killing 5 people.
Also Mayor Frey admonished the public on X about the futility of “thoughts and prayers” since that’s what the children were doing when murdered. That’s an impressive level of cynicism. And they wonder why voter registration in all thirty states that track party affiliation show a decline for team blue.
I hope that Matt and Walter cover the evil clown Psaki's reaction, even worse than the Minneapolis soy boy Mayor's, where she produced tears while raging at those devout people who would dare pray for the dead in this horrible case. Calling her a she-demon is too kind to demons.
She really makes me think she would be comfortable watching the boxcars full of the proper element roll by.
She is a bigot. It's allowed when it's about Christians. Especially Catholics.
He insulted everyone who holds their belief in prayer sacred. Isn't that what bigots do?
Imagine if someone made fun of the black parishioners Dylan Roof killed.
Assigning collective guilt to alphabet people (or even noticing this murderer was a tranny) is a war crime, but punishing all gun owners is morally righteous. Politicizing this even is wrong unless it's the left doing it.
Newscum has become a petulant child, screaming and waving his hands around, trying to get someone to pay attention to him. Truly pathetic.
a white guy trying to do the hand jive....
And there were four shooting incidences in MPS in 13 hours including another Catholic (Jesuit) school, Cristo Rey. You really have to dig to find that info. I was listening to Megyn Kelly yesterday and she had Liz Collins on her pod who did the documentary on Minneapolis after George Floyd. That's how I heard about it. She even said that the police scanners are blocked so journalists can't grab the information in real time! MPS and much of MN has just lost their marbles.
Once again (COVID, Russiagate, Hunter Laptop and now the current tragedy) the NY Post trumps the NY Times. At least people in that city have one reliable newspaper.
This may be the most egregious example of “conservatives pounce” I’ve ever seen. And to express such mystified agnosticism of the shooter’s motive given the release of his or her manifesto on social media is pretty gross.
CNN was caught off guard, scrambling to decide how they were going to handle the trans issue.
Erin Burnett aired video of the Minneapolis police chief, speaking outdoors, referring to the killer as "he". This produced tight lips and a furrowed brow, poor Erin. They also showed the photo of him (the killer) w/ lipstick and pigtails. Within an hour Anderson Cooper stated they would not show photos of the killer.
So they can bury it, like they did w/ the Nashville shooter & (both) Trump shooters -- and we still don't know who the Baltimore Key Bridge "ship pilot" was, or Rebecca Lobach's (DC helicopter pilot) social-media history... #MoveAlong #NothingToSeeHere
plenty of the pigtailed demon on X
You can learn more about the incident in 15 minutes on X than you will ever learn from mainstream media
ABSOLUTELY!
Even Glenn Greenwald referred to the shooter as "they." Come on, Glenn.
Yeah, earthy-bookworm, it's disheartening to see people cowed into submission on this issue. Insistence on preferred pronouns is just another symptom in the constellation of symptoms in this epidemic of gender dysphoria. This illness -- and it is an illness, not a civil right -- is about control, just like an eating disorder. "You can't make me eat." "You have to call me by the name I choose and the pronouns I choose." "I'm in charge here."
A couple of years ago, I tested a 12-year-old girl for a language delay/disorder, perhaps autism, whose mother informed us that her daughter went by "they/them." It was evident who held the power in the relationship. I was indifferent to this demand; I didn't have a dog in the fight. If she wanted my report to refer to her as "they/them," it was no skin off my nose.
I happen to wear my wristwatch with the dial on the inside of my wrist, rather than the outside. The young lady I was testing scowled at my watch and asked, "Why do you wear your watch like that?" I explained that I simply find it easier to look at my watch face with my palm open toward me, without having to turn my forearm and elbow over to look at the outside of my wrist.
"Well, I don't like it," she said rather stridently. It was clear that she wanted and fully expected me to alter my personal behavior to suit her. "Well, I'm not going to change it for you," I replied. She huffed and pouted a little, but then we returned to the task at hand. But this incident gave me a bit of insight into what living with her must be like at home, and why mom looked so beaten down.
It's not an identity, it's a disorder. And we're doing these people no favors by indulging their delusions. Just look what we're doing with the so-called "Furries." Honestly, are there no adults left in the room to say, "Enough with this nonsense already."
I have a friend who teaches at a very well known and prestigious prep school. Astoundingly, the teachers are supposed to respect furries. WTF!
I think furries should be fed “furry” food like Pedigree and Purina or if they are cats. some nice raw liver.. hmm dogs like raw meat too.. and garbage.. and of course made to walk on all fours and use a litter box. or made to pee outside. even in winter and rain..many dogs wear “pinch” collars. thye must no wear clothes and must sniff the b utts or even lick the butts of others furries of the same species.. cat furries must kill and eat rats and birds.. dog furries must kill cat furries. or at least chase them up trees... and most importantly. furries must be neutered at an early age so they do not cause “overpopulation"
All I'm saying is, if furries want to be treated like animals, we should be allowed to hunt them for sport.
They are probably already working on the neutering, thank God!
Where is the outrage in the psychology/social work profession? Have they learned nothing from the eating disorder scourge? Or, do they, too, lack the courage or ethical conviction to come forward to warn the public about this latest transhumanist attack on ...yes, humanity.
Psychology and social work have been captured by the woke cult. Social work has been that way for a long time, politically correct, controlling females for the most part. Psychology got there more recently. And yes, they lack the common sense, discernment and ethical conviction to do anything besides be among the most active membership of the woke cult.
Excellent point. The Daily Mail blocked me when I posted a similar comment although several others got through. They lost me as a potential paid subscriber.
Glenn is creepy and disingenuous. I don't care what he has to say about anything
He jumped the shark on Oct 7.
He's good on a number of topics but boy does he make bad arguments about Israel. I think he's so used to discovering bad behavior by western politicians and institutions that he gives their anti-western counterparts the benefit of the doubt.
I canx my subscription because it felt like the same posts over and over and over again. He takes Hamas at their word, hates Israel.
no kidding he is terrible
Maybe "they" is appropriate for a very confused human with dual personality disorder.
No, it is the sick person who has a disorder, not us. We do not have to go along with their sick fantasies. Why should we indulge and appease these lost souls? This is what the left has been doing and what broke the society, and brought many young people into a delusional dysfunctional state, and made many even physically disfigured for life. I absolutely refuse to go along with this insanity.
The Enlgish monarchy refers to themselves as "We", as in "We are not amused". Now, there's some entitlement for ya!
One of the reasons for the "We" may be that in British English collective nouns take plural verbs more often than in American English, e.g. "The government are meeting to discuss imposing stricter regulations on social media".
Greenwald also said: "not that such labels matter".
Matt, you always bring the proper perspective to the topic at hand. Thank you.
"Mentally ill tranny (redundant, yes) commits another act of politically motivated terrorism against a religious institution and its congregants" is far too impolite. Heck, if this was true, people may start looking at trannies like they're a danger to themselves and others, and respond accordingly.
Of course, respond accordingly people will, regardless of how reality is repackaged for their consumption. I've never observed bald faced lies of having the effect of placating those being lied to.
Trans Shooters
Using a simple binomial model (n ≈ 300 shooters since 2018, trans share p ≈ 0.006):
• Expected trans/gender-fluid shooters: ~1.8
• If actual is 6 → tail probability ~1.0% (P≥6 = 1.013e-02)
• If actual is 10 → ~0.0018% (P≥10 = 1.751e-05)
• If actual is 12 → ~0.000039% (P≥12 = 3.936e-07)
So at 10–12 cases, that’s orders of magnitude above chance given the population share.
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📊 Mass Shooting Statistics (2018–2025)
• Total mass shooters (approx.): ~300
• Trans/gender-fluid share of U.S. population: ~0.6%
• Expected number of trans shooters (if proportional): ~1.8
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🔎 Actual vs. Expected
• If actual = 6
• Expected = 1.8
• Over-representation = 3.3× higher than expected
• Probability of ≥6 just by chance: ~1% (1 in 100)
• If actual = 10
• Expected = 1.8
• Over-representation = 5.6× higher than expected
• Probability of ≥10 just by chance: ~0.0018% (1 in 55,000)
• If actual = 12
• Expected = 1.8
• Over-representation = 6.7× higher than expected
• Probability of ≥12 just by chance: ~0.000039% (1 in 2.5 million)
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✅ Plain Conclusion
• With 10–12 actual cases, the odds of that happening “just by chance” are vanishingly small.
• This is not random noise — it’s a real and extraordinary overrepresentation of trans/gender-fluid individuals in mass shootings compared to their population size.
Trans identified males are reportedly very overrepresented in the incarcerated population of sex offenders in the U.S.
Fact sheet on that here (with sources) on the Women's Liberation Front page re: the federal lawsuit on behalf of incarcerated women affected by the bill Newsom signed that allows men in women's prisons. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f232ea74d8342386a7ebc52/t/670ffbd38b353a5c3aa15b48/1729100755783/Men+in+Women%27s+Prisons+Fact+Sheet.pdf
Root cause is likely the SSRI drugs that says on the FDA warning labels include suicide and mass murder ideation….. time for these drugs to be an automatic “ disqualification” to own a gun or operate heavy machinery for that matter.
"hey heres a drug that can turn you into a mass murderer." dont u think it wiser to ban the drug?
I THINK you're trying to say something important on this post, Marlene, but there's a hella lot of people who've never went near a Stats course.
Could you translate this into plain English that someone w/an 8th grade education could understand?
For example, what IS the generally accepted %age of the general population that 'is' tranny? And what is the source of that figure; can it be trusted? How could we arrive at a solid number?
You've shown some good work, but I don't have any context to understand it within.
Sure Jim,
1. How many people identify as transgender?
The best surveys (like the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and UCLA’s Williams Institute studies) put the U.S. share around 0.6% of the population. That means about 6 in every 1,000 people. The number isn’t exact—it depends on how you ask the question—but 0.5–0.7% is a solid, generally accepted range.
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2. What we’d expect if mass shooters matched the general population.
If there have been about 300 mass shooters since 2018, and if transgender people made up shootings at the same rate as their share of the population (0.6%), then you’d expect only about 2 shooters total to be transgender.
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3. What we actually see.
Reports (depending how you classify) suggest 6 to 12 transgender or gender-fluid shooters in that period. That’s way above the expected number of 2.
• If it’s 6, that’s about 3 times higher than expected.
• If it’s 10–12, that’s 5–7 times higher.
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4. Why this matters statistically.
If shootings were truly random, the chance of seeing 10–12 transgender shooters out of 300 is astronomically low—like the odds of flipping a coin and getting heads 20 times in a row. In other words: this isn’t “just chance.”
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✅ Plain Conclusion:
Transgender people make up less than 1% of Americans but possibly 2–4% of recent mass shooters. That’s a huge over-representation. Whether the number is 6, 10, or 12, the odds of it happening by chance are so tiny that it points to something real going on.
Oh wow, thanks for this, I REALLY appreciate you taking the time to clarify.
Now... as far as your analysis is concerned...
WHOAAA!
This puts everything into an entirely new light for me; I agree that 'there's something goin' on'. Just what that is, I don't know. All I would come up with would be theories and opinions. However...
THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON.
Something indeed is going on. The mayor was first of all commiserating with the shooter’s group (trans community) instead of the dead and traumatized
children. Am I missing something ? Is there an anti- children thing going on that I missed? Is it about Christians having children ? I am a bit confused .
I think the number is 5.
9/20/18- MD- Moseley
5/7/19- CO- McKinney
11.19/22- CO- Aldrich
3/27/23- TN- Hale
8/27/25- MN- Westman
I also think that we need to work on the definition of “mass shooting” before examining this proportionality…most definitions are based on number of people shot and they do not exclude gang or domestic violence.
These are all confirmed:
Denver Shooter - Trans
Aberdeen Shooter - Trans Nashville Shooter - Trans Georgia Shooter - Trans Philadelphia Shooter - Trans lowa Shooter - Gender Fluid
Uvalde Shooter - Trans
Colorado Shooter - Trans Minnesota Shooter - Trans
And the others are being obfuscated.
What is the social utility in ignoring or downplaying this?
I haven’t found confirmation of the uvalde shooter being trans. Will you share that source, please?
May I ask why you think the important thing is to be modest in assessing statistics and probabilities of transgender murderers, rather than stopping them and mourning their poor wee victims?
If you want to go into this further we shouldn't stop at mass shootings. I almost can't keep up with the acts of violence they perpetrate on a smaller, though still horrific, scale. Shooting in Shrewsbury, MA, just this week comes to mind.
I think the victims of these crimes- the ones killed, the ones wounded, and those of us left to worry about the next time- are so important that we have to be as correct as possible in assessing the problem.
I’m having a hard time doing that because of media obfuscation. Here’s the list I’ve compiled so far (which is up to 7), and again, bc of media reports that leave much to be desired w/re to detail and clarity, I’m resigned to simply calling someone like Carriker (PA) a “cross-dresser”.
I absolutely think the percentages that you noted in your first post would change- increase, in fact- if we clarify the definition of “mass-shooting” to exclude gang and domestic violence.
9/20/18, MD, Moseley (Trans)
5/7/19, CO, McKinney (Trans)
11/19/22, CO, Aldrich (Non-B)
3/27/23, TN, Hale (Trans)
7/2/23, PA, Carriker (cross-dresser)
1/4/24, IA, Butler (gender-fluid)
8/27/25 MN, Westman (trans)
The numbers are way to small to draw conclusions, and this text...
"Reports (depending how you classify) suggest 6 to 12 transgender or gender-fluid shooters in that period."
...is courageously shameful science wise.
These numbers are so small you should be listing the names of everyone along with links to your evidence.
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To be clear, I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with anything except that your science so far is just awful.
Out of less than 1 percent of the population- these numbers are staggering.
Denver Shooter - Trans
Aberdeen Shooter - Trans Nashville Shooter - Trans Georgia Shooter - Trans Philadelphia Shooter - Trans
lowa Shooter - Gender Fluid
Uvalde Shooter - Trans
Colorado Shooter - Trans Minnesota Shooter - Trans
Confirmed.
The other 3-5 are disputed and obfuscated in reportage.
And I am sure with the level of media suppression in evidence that it is possible there are more.
Where are the names and links with supporting evidence?
And how could it be possible you don't have this information at the ready to cut and paste?
That is a very serious and sincere question. How do you not have this information at the ready considering your stated interest and assertions?
And what the hell does gender fluid mean? That's going to need a definition.
And how could this be disputed--isn't all this stuff self-identified? Can you deny being trans but still be classified as trans by your methodology?
Try saying tranny on "Free Speech X" -- won't go well.
Are you on X at all? I use 'tranny' all the time.
My statistical analysis of trans murderers keeps getting flagged and suppressed in X and i was banned for a day for talking about this frankly and with numbers.
GDamn it.
yup. and the only place that I know of where you can watch the crazy demon that did this..
Yes, fuckface.
Oh, it gets better. The local Fox outlet (KMSP) cut away from its coverage of a vigil at the school to show a 15 minute democratic/socialist diatribe Media not biased at all
Not to mention he said he regretted transitioning. I have personal experience that this is mental illness. The suicide rate is drastically high even after transitioning. Normalizing it is not the answer here. Being gay is not the same thing at all. But the person I know (and have known for 40 years) is mentally ill. Instead of attributing this behavior to it, they try to say being trapped in a man's body is responsible for all the crazy shit he has done. This does not mean any adult should not be able to identify or dress as the Easter bunny if they want to. Normalizing it for our children and surgery and hormones are a completely different story. Leftists want us to accept that this is just a normal choice and they are confusing our children. His mother probably added to this poor guy's problems and it's a shame. Then the left lies about how the right wants to erase trans people or mentally ill people. That is adding to violence and there is no low they won't stoop to for power. This is going to make that harder for them, but they never use any sense at all.
Where is his father?
He's in the household. Mother has become infamous because she signed the name change. There's a picture of the dad's bday post to him in the rainbow colors.
Right. Nobody mentions him at all and she has apparently lawyered up. They have only been able to talk to neighbors and friends.
"His mother probably added to this poor guy's problems and it's a shame."
His mother is 100% responsible for aiding and abetting his "gender dysphoric" delusions. He was 17 when they made the appointment to change his name to a female moniker. He had been catechized (in elementary school) for at least 8 years at this Catholic school. She was an employee of the same church/school, retiring four years ago. And STILL she signed off on his name change to a female name. She is described as Catholic and I can tell you with 100% certainty that she was not in full communion with the Church OR Christianity by deciding to abet the delusion that somehow God was wrong when he gave her a son and 17 years later that son said, uh no, I'm really a girl" and she says, "ok."
Her faith cannot be set aside in this scenario. The family had to be completely deluded to throw away their faith to choose this path vs getting their son the real help he needed. And he's no longer a "poor guy" when everyone around him looks the other way while he spirals into more crazy.
I had a brother who died by his own hands. He was 18 (three weeks from HS graduation). Males in general (and I have 6 brothers) are incredibly vulnerable to mental illness at this age. Her son was no different except he was aided in his delusion to continue on this disastrous path. My parents had no idea back in 1986 that Paul was going through something and would have sought help for him had they known.
Well, I daresay you are at least partially right. I feel a bit sorry for his mother, too, though, because she has also been intimidated by this narrative--if you were told your son would die if you didn't let him transition, are you 100% sure you'd oppose it? I am pretty sure I would have, but in Canada they have jailed fathers who opposed this kind of crap, even for not using their child's "preferred" pronouns or names.
I know he was troubled and she didn't make good decisions, (what does the father say about all this) but I also don't like to sit in judgment quite in that way. It's enough she made bad decisions and I don't want to judge her spirituality. That's for God to do. This culture created him AND her no doubt.
But I do agree with you without going quite there, that worshipping the state rather than God probably accounts for a lot of what ails us. I went to Oral University,, but I tend to see spirituality a bit like Jordan Peterson--nobody has all the answers. There have been some bad things done in the name of religion, too, but I'll take my chances with people who worship something bigger than themselves. :) The whole thing is very sad.
And I will say that faith does figure in this disaster. Perhaps we can't see what we are to learn from it all just y et...
No, absolutely not. I'm a devout Catholic and I would reassure my son that God made him perfectly. I would move our family from that insane city/state where the culture is corrupted by adult fantasies and delusions. I can assure you that Ascension would not have indoctrinated him but the greater MPS area did and his parents allowed it. Add'l info is already coming out about him bouncing from high school to high school. That's when you make a massive move to get your son to a rural area, home school, take away phones/social media, and touch grass. There are many, many resources to help parents of children to find potential solutions. But, as far as we know, they didn't do that.
Of course God will judge their ultimate fate but I find it wholly appropriate to judge the Catholic who says God is wrong.
Aside: My college roommate's adopted daughter identified as a boy 7th-the beginning of 12th grade. My friend indulged pronouns and name changes and a binder. Her father did not. My friend once said "what if God did make a mistake" and of course I assured her that He never does. How did this whole thing get started you might ask? Playing games on-line with strangers. One such stranger introduced the idea. My friend should have removed ALL screens at the least and seriously considered moving. The psychs were of no help. Perhaps her daughter, who had an open relationship with her bio mom, thought that if she was a boy, her bio mom would have wanted to keep her. Why? Because the bio mom went on to have 3 sons. But no psychs would even attempt to try to get to the root of the problem. She is now a very happy, content college student who will likely regret those years but, thanks be to God, she never had any irreversible / life altering changes.
"The psychs were of no help." I bet.
Most of them encourage it, as do teachers. It's an easy diagnosis, like ADD used to be, but an expensive "fix," requiring a vast array of experts and drugs. Ritalin at least was simple and cheap.
Hm, again, I think I'd do what you say you would do. But I do blame the intimidating nature of these liberals. Too. And they are to blame for his actions to a large degree as well. As well as the parents. And you make a pretty good case for that in this post. It's a very sad thing.
I’ll just say that where my friend lives is very similar to MPS. Also will add that I have a son who is the exact age of this very evil, mentally ill man who took the innocence of so many children and the life of two.
I'm shocked, shocked at media bias....