Republicans Are Trying to Link Mass Shootings to Trans People

Guns don’t kill people. Trans people do. That’s the absurd claim that a wave of conservatives are making following conflicting reports about the gender identity of the Nashville shooter who killed three nine-year-olds and three adults at a private Christian school on Monday.

“How much hormones like testosterone and medications for mental illness was the transgender Nashville school shooter taking?” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tweeted Monday evening. “Everyone can stop blaming guns now.”

“We seem to be watching the rise of trans terrorism,” Fox News’ Tucker Carlson said in a nine-minute screed Tuesday night. “Yesterday’s massacre did not happen because of lax gun laws. Yesterday’s massacre happened because of a deranged and demonic ideology that is infecting this country with the encouragement of people like Joe Biden.”