Matt Landis
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No idea, but it seems most often to be because they felt bullied or excluded, and lacked the tools or guidance to get help and express their pain without violence. As noted, almost all mass shooters are cisgender men. Less than 1/4 are diagnosed with mental illness. Almost none are trans.
August 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
No idea, but it seems most often to be because they felt bullied or excluded, and lacked the tools or guidance to get help and express their pain without violence. As noted, almost all mass shooters are cisgender men. Less than 1/4 are diagnosed with mental illness. Almost none are trans.
Clearly I’m not an expert on this, but I think bullying and social exclusion was thematic in male shooters. I would expect no less when the shooter is trans. Kids that are hurt try to hurt others, sometimes with guns. I don’t know what to do to help, but hurting and excluding more kids ain’t it.
August 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Clearly I’m not an expert on this, but I think bullying and social exclusion was thematic in male shooters. I would expect no less when the shooter is trans. Kids that are hurt try to hurt others, sometimes with guns. I don’t know what to do to help, but hurting and excluding more kids ain’t it.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I’m sure you have them, but @johnkeimm.bsky.social and @realbramw.bsky.social are DC favorites!
Good question. The vast majority of mass shooters are cisgender males. How many until we start to treat those identities as causal, or even just correlated? nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic....
Public Mass Shootings: Database Amasses Details of a Half Century of U.S. Mass Shootings with Firearms, Generating Psychosocial Histories
Persons who committed public mass shootings in the U.S. over the last half century were commonly troubled by personal trauma before their shooting incidents, nearly always in a state of crisis at the ...
nij.ojp.gov
August 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Good question. The vast majority of mass shooters are cisgender males. How many until we start to treat those identities as causal, or even just correlated? nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic....