Trans Woman School shooting TN

It's a fair question. I can only think that it must be because the shooter only recently transitioned. Reading the Daily Mail's article on it they say that according to their Linked In profile the shooter was now identifying as a man.

The same article quotes the mother of the shooter referring to "my daughter". Separately the mother is described as "Very religious".

It’s more a prime example of how language is used to bend perceptions and influence reality.

Basically it’s sleight of language - they’re a woman, who is transgender. That’s proper use of Person First language, as opposed to referring to the individual in question as a transgender man, when they’re… obviously not a man. That’s using Identity First language.

Things were way less complicated when all you’d to do was mind your Ps and Qs 😂

It's the only one, because some people are both trying to illicit sympathy for this shooter and politicize it to their advantage. The fact that that's happening tells you all you need to know about modern ideologues. They wouldn't dare try something similar with any of the white male shooters, yet they'll gladly do it for one of their "oppressed" groups". I'm not saying that we shouldn't try and understand the motivations of these types, we should, but the people doing it here are only doing it in the name of spin, and not out of some sort of deep care about what leads people to do something like this.

Hope she burns. RIP to the victims.

Yes, the title should be changed to something like. . 'Another nuthouse with assault rifles kills six in school shooting'.

Not sure what thread you're reading. I can't see anyone trying to "illicit sympathy for this shooter".

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Strongly disagree. The person who committed the atrocity in Las Vegas would have had a far harder time doing what they did using only handguns, a knife or a board with a nail in it. Impossible, even, I would say.

There's a whole culture around mass shootings in the States and something about that way of killing which draws would-be perpetrators to it. It's not that they'd switch to improvised explosives or something like that if assault weapons became too difficult to get. If it was just about killing people, you'd already see a larger variety of methods in these kinds of massacres, a lot more bombings etc. There is a cultural attraction to guns and being the gunman which cannot be replaced by knives, bows and arrows or bombs.

Unless guns were totally outlawed, these kinds of shootings would continue to some degree, but sensible restrictions would at least severely reduce what your average maniac can do.

If Sandyhook couldn't convince Americans to cop the fcuk on, nothing will. They're a lost cause.

RIP to the victims.

Not everyone can drive trucks or make pipe bombs.

Everyone can pull a trigger.

Even 4 year olds.

It's a misguided cockeyed talking point from gun advocates, sure if we ban guns they will all hire trucks.

If we could have killed the same number of people with those methods (I strongly disagree with that assertion btw) why didn't he use them instead?

Why do the vast, vast, vast majority of spree killers choose to use automatic weapons?

right, but in countries which went on to restrict access to guns and have zero access to these types of guns, what happened?

are you getting the equivalent of 3000 mass killings over 5 years replaced with truck violence, rolling pin murders?

mmmmm

no

a great example is the uk, you surely have access to a tv, watch the news? are there widespread mass truck killings? its say 20% of the population right, so 120 mass murders per year, in ireland, 12 per year

indeed, once you create a victim identity for any group you are indoctrinating them with a loser outlook in life. By definition the individual is different to the group with their own challenges and potentials.

Or more likely the gender dysphoria is an expression of the mental health issues the individual had.

In the case of the Vegas shooting you have a large congregation of people in a confined space. He could have hired or stolen a large truck and ploughed through the crowd

Come back with those goalposts.

Where is your evidence of in exchange for assault rifles all these mass murderers will just use cars or trucks instead?