The Trump administration is supposedly looking at……..

Prohibiting transgender people from owning firearms, their justification being that supposedly, “Statistically, the trans population has been prone to violence.” White House Senior Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka made similar remarks: "In just a couple of years, we have seen seven mass shootings involving people of transgender nature or who are confused in their gender. Seven in just the last couple of years. That is inordinately high."

Let’s look at real facts here:

1) Crime and terrorism experts still agree: There is no evidence that transgender people are more likely to commit gun violence than others.
2) The Violence Prevention Project at Hamline University studied mass shootings that it defined as shootings in public places that resulted in four fatalities excluding the shooter. Its analysis found that males were the perpetrators in 98% of the shootings, female shooters accounted for 2% of the attacks and transgender people accounted for less than 1%. (The Minneapolis incident would not qualify as a mass shooting under Hamline’s definition.)
3) The number of mass shootings in the U.S. since 2018 ranges from the tens to the thousands, depending on the data and criteria used to measure them. The most expansive definition comes from Gun Violence Archive, a nationally recognized source for gun violence data, which counts any incident in which four or more people are shot or killed, excluding the shooter — the only definition under which the Minneapolis incident would qualify. If all seven shooting incident attackers included in Gorka and Fox News’ lists were counted, that would be seven out of 4,147 mass shootings from 2018 to 2025, based on Gun Violence Archive data — a rate of 0.17% as of Aug. 28.
4) When PolitiFact asked Fox News for evidence, they said Gorka posted a list of six incidents on X. Out of nine cases Fox News and Gorka cited going back to 2018, four involved shooters who identified as transgender, a PolitiFact review of news reports, investigations and court records found. One was nonbinary, which means they did not see themselves as exclusively male or female; in the other cases, the perpetrator’s gender identity was not as clear as Fox News and Gorka framed. Two incidents did not qualify as a mass shooting by any definition — one because it was not a shooting, and the other because the gunfire resulted in one injury, no fatalities.
5) When Fox News was approached for evidence, a spokesperson sent Statista data showing that, as of Aug. 11, there had been 60 mass shootings since 2018. The spokesperson listed six cases of shooters who she said were experiencing gender dysphoria, or the experience of distress that some people feel when their sex and gender identity don’t align. Of the nine incidents that Gorka and Fox News together mentioned, one involved a Molotov cocktail tossed at Tesla vehicles in Kansas City in March, not a shooting. Another, in which a transgender person was wanted in connection to a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas, left one police officer injured and resulted in no fatalities. And not all of the cases involved shooters who clearly identified as trans. In a 2023 Philadelphia shooting, for example, an adviser to the district attorney’s office said the suspect "has not identified themselves as trans," NBC News reported. And defense attorneys for the suspect in a 2022 shooting at Colorado’s Club Q nightclub — who was apprehended after the attack — wrote in court documents that the shooter identified as nonbinary. After a 2024 shooting at Perry High School in Iowa, people claimed the shooter was trans because his social media posts contained LGBTQ+ symbolism and messages in support of transgender people. Officials, however, did not comment about the shooter’s gender identity. Even in the Minneapolis case, tabloid reports premised on a YouTube video said the shooter’s writings included some ambiguity around being transgender. In other words, in most of the cases, the shooter did not clearly identify as transgender, but had shown some interest in LGBTQ+ issues; contrary to what the Conservative media seems to feel, one does not equate to the other.
6) Judging by any of the multiple definitions of a mass shooting, the number of trans mass shooters would not show any statistical evidence that trans shooters are disproportionately more prone to violence than nontransgender people. An August 2025 report from the LGBTQ+ policy research center Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles found that 2.8 million people ages 13 and above identify as transgender in the U.S. That’s 1% of people in the U.S. aged 13 and older. “If trans persons are 1% of the general population, but only 0.17% of the population of mass shooters, then they are under-represented in this group," said Laura Dugan, Ohio State University of human security and sociology professor.

And finally……

7) A 2023 FBI report on active shooters cited the Covenant Presbyterian School shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, where the assailant was identified by authorities as "female/transgender male." All of the other 48 active shooters in that year were male, the report said. “When you're looking at the average violence across the community, disproportionately, you know it's white, straight men," said Mia Bloom, Georgia State University professor of communication and Middle East studies.

Statistics show that 98% of shooters in mass shooter events are male, and 53% of them are white, 21% black, 9% Latino, 7% Asian, 4% Middle Eastern, and 1% Native American.

Based on those numbers, shouldn’t the Trump administration be restricting gun ownership by White Males? Or perhaps they should be looking at some real form of gun control? Something like increased background checks? Restricting the sale of high volume magazines? Or some other real solution?

Oh, and as an aside, just before he was shot, Charlie Kirk was asked if he knew how many mass shootings had really been perpetrated by a transgender person. Know what his answer was? “Too many.”

So OK, even one mass shooting is too many - but Charlie Kirk and his type never use real facts. It’s too easy to pull crap off of the internet and use transgender people as an easy scapegoat to push their prejudice and hate mongering.

But the irony that he was talking about gun control when he was shot is pretty clear - and how long before Fox News and MAGA world tries to blame the shooting on a transgender person?