"You know, 96% of attackers when you're looking at the US Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center, looking at 172 mass attacks in the US between 2016 and 2020 96% were non-trans men, Keilar said. So I know you're focusing on this shooter being trans. The shooter was trans and that is certainly of note. But are you missing the bigger picture here when you zero in on that instead of more broadly these school shooters as an epidemic and you perhaps miss the through line that connects them all?"
"You are using data based upon the predominant gun violence which is gang-on-gang violence with zero ideological content. If you remove all of that, the gang violence on the streets of Chicago, LA, Detroit, then you come down to a much smaller data set. So it's like those who say, you know, gun violence in America causes so many deaths, and then fail to note that the majority of the stats they are using refer to also suicides by gun which, of course, is not what we are talking about here today."
A tense exchange centered on whether attention to a Minnesota school shooter's transgender identity obscures broader patterns of mass violence. US Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center data reported 96% of attackers were non-trans men across 172 US mass attacks from 2016 to 2020. The White House counterterrorism official challenged the applicability of those statistics to school mass shootings, arguing that gang-on-gang violence and firearm suicides inflate overall gun-violence numbers. The official urged isolating mass school shootings, particularly attacks at Christian or Catholic schools, and characterized the incident as ideologically motivated terrorism rather than ordinary criminal violence.
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