Feb. 1: Cop Killings, Background Checks, Hagel’s Ethics

By Eugene Kiely

Posted on February 1, 2013

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Q: Have many of the mass shooters been transgender?

A: The number of transgender mass shooters in the U.S. varies depending on how “mass shooting” is defined, but is relatively small. The Gun Violence Archive, which uses a broader definition, lists five mass shootings by transgender or nonbinary people since January 2013. That’s less than 0.1% of the mass shootings it says happened in that period.

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