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Americans are right to be alarmed when familiar patterns emerge in the wake of mass violence, and conservative voices like Rob Finnerty have been blunt about what they see: a cluster of high-profile attacks where the assailant’s gender identity was later reported as transgender or nonbinary, and a mainstream media reflex to change the subject. That pushback isn’t about persecuting a vulnerable community — it’s about demanding honest reporting and common-sense public safety.
Take the horrifying attack outside a Catholic school in Minneapolis, where investigators found evidence of a planned massacre and later reports indicated the shooter identified as transgender; the case exposed not only a sickening loss of life but also how quickly officials moved to manage the narrative rather than confront the troubling facts. Law-abiding parents want to know whether ideology, untreated mental illness, or online radicalization played a central role, not whether the story will be reshaped to suit political comfort.
Compare that to the recent shooting at a Rhode Island arena where authorities identified the perpetrator in media reports as a trans woman; families who watched their loved ones gunned down deserve straight answers about motive, background, and access to lethal weapons. Conservatives are unapologetically focused on protecting communities and children, and we won’t accept that the first response to every tragedy is to hush inconvenient details.
Across the border in Canada, investigators described the Tumbler Ridge school shooter as a transgender woman, another instance where identity and ideology intersected with extreme violence and raised urgent questions about access to firearms and warning signs missed by institutions. These are not attacks on a class of people — they are demands for accountability when people who espouse radical or self-destructive worldviews gain the means to slaughter innocents.
That said, inconvenient facts don’t justify sloppy generalizations, and fact-checkers have pushed back against memes that claim a statistical epidemic of “trans shooters.” PolitiFact and other outlets note that trans people are a tiny fraction of the population and do not, by current data, commit mass shootings at a higher per-capita rate — which only strengthens the argument that any honest debate must be rooted in verified evidence, not viral lists. Conservatives still maintain that even a handful of linked cases demands scrutiny of radical online subcultures, mental-health failures, and policing gaps.
The heart of our position is simple: protect children, secure schools, and enforce the laws we already have while insisting on transparency from officials and the press. If the left’s answer is to reflexively condemn anyone who raises questions as hateful, then we have an alarming culture shift where the pursuit of truth about violent acts is being criminalized. Americans want safety and candor, not spin.
So let’s stop playing defense and start acting like patriots who put people over politics: beef up mental-health interventions, tighten dangerous-person protections, stop the elevation of radical online echo chambers, and demand the media stop massaging facts to preserve a narrative. We can and must do this without scapegoating an entire community — but we will not be bullied into silence when patterns of violence meet ideology and ideology meets access to guns.
