Sorry: Ignoring how often recent high-profile shootings have a trans aspect, as most media are trying to do, does no one any good.
The latest news: Nicholas Roske, who plotted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022, claimed (after being caught) to be a woman.
Last week, Roske drew a sentence of just eight years from an obscenely sympathetic progressive judge, far below sentencing guidelines and the 30 years prosecutors sought.
Other examples:
* Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson was in a relationship with a transitioning biological male.
* Robin Westman, the Minneapolis school shooter who killed two kids and injured 21 others in August, identified as a transgender woman.
* Audrey Hale, who killed six people at Nashville’s Convent School in 2023, was also transgender.
* Alec McKinney, who took part in the 2019 Colorado charter school shooting, was born female but identified as male.
* Snochia Moseley, a transgender (male to female), murdered three and injured three others in 2018 in a Maryland Rite Aid warehouse shooting.
* The “Zizian” radical-left trans cult has been linked to multiple murders across the country.
How many make a “trend”?
Shamefully, most media outlets bury any possible connection, often even leaving the trans angle out entirely in stories on these killings.
Some deny it outright: “No, there is not an ‘epidemic’ of shootings by trans people,” stressed a USA Today headline in August.
Google’s AI Overview goes out of its way to insist that “transgender people commit a vanishingly small percentage of mass shootings.”
Yet the rash of trans killers should at least raise the question of whether there’s a connection between their sexual identification and violence.
Trans people are, in fact, a tiny percentage of the population: Are they behind a disproportionate share of assassinations or mass shootings?
Obviously, the overwhelmingly vast majority of trans people aren’t killers of any kind, but simply denying that a lot of recent high-profile killers have been trans can only feed public paranoia about the issue.
Perhaps it’s simply that people grappling with violent mental illness are more likely to seize on a trans identity these days, because parts of the broader culture are pushing that ID so heavily.
Whatever the answer, looking into it can only help prevent violence.
And, just as with their suppression of discussion of Hunter Biden’s laptop, the Wuhan lab leak and other COVID “heresies,” media that aim to shut down simple discussion here will mostly just discredit themselves.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
