• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    21 hours ago

    “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” the person asked. Kirk responded, “Too many.”

    …The answer is 5.

    Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”

    “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk asked.

    It’s apparently impossible to know the exact number…but it is in the high hundreds, or even thousands. If you include gang violence, then the number is almost 7000.

    These kinds of arguments are so disingenuous they are practically lies, in and of themselves.