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2025-08-27 22:24:21 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

The majority of mass shooters in the U.S. are men (95%) and white (52%). Only 2% of mass shooters between 2016 and 2020 were transgender, with more recent reports pointing to 1.1%. https://www.secretservice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-01/usss-ntac-maps-2016-2020.pdf https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2022 https://rockinst.org/gun-violence/mass-shooting-factsheet/ https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/public-mass-shootings-database-amasses-details-half-century-us-mass-shootings https://ammo.com/research/mass-shootings-by-shooters-race https://www.theviolenceproject.org/mass-shooter-database/ https://www.thetrace.org/2025/07/mass-shootings-trans-misinformation/ https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/majority-of-us-mass-shooters-are-cis-men-not-transgender-or-non-binary-people-idUSL1N363273/ https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

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• The majority of mass shooters in the U.S. are men (95%) and white (52%). Only 2% of mass shooters between 2016 and 2020 were transgender, with more recent reports pointing to 1.1%. https://www.secretservice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-01/usss-ntac-maps-2016-2020.pdf https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2022 https://rockinst.org/gun-violence/mass-shooting-factsheet/ https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/public-mass-shootings-database-amasses-details-half-century-us-mass-shootings https://ammo.com/research/mass-shootings-by-shooters-race https://www.theviolenceproject.org/mass-shooter-database/ https://www.thetrace.org/2025/07/mass-shootings-trans-misinformation/ https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/majority-of-us-mass-shooters-are-cis-men-not-transgender-or-non-binary-people-idUSL1N363273/ https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/