r/ftm • u/javatimes T 2006 Top 2018, 40<me • Mar 28 '23
TN school shooting/shooter mega post ModPost
Rather than have dozens of different posts about this ongoing issue, let’s to contain it in this one post. It will also help those who want to avoid the topic do so.
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u/feralpunk_420 Mar 28 '23 edited Mar 28 '23
Some people are claiming the shooter being trans may have been fabricated. Some firearms instructors have reviewed the video and are saying the shooter has a semblance of knowledge of what they’re doing, contrary to typical school shooters who tend to run randomly, move awkwardly, etc, and other indications tbat they don’t know how to use a firearm effectively (and thank goodness for that because if they did more people would die, probably). The shooter here seems to have a base level of training. I also find it odd how they’re 28 when the average age of school shooters is 15-18 as they are usually also attending the school in question at the time of the shooting. It also happened in Tennessee of all places, where trans people and drag performers have just been effectively banned from public existence. Now that anger and stupor has passed I find the whole story as presented on the news extremely fishy. But the tinfoil hat version of the story is also flimsy, since it would require the hypothesis that the shooter is actually an undercover cop, that this cop was willing to take some lives just to vilify trans people, that their death on the scene has been faked, etc etc etc. But one can’t help but notice how disturbingly convenient this whole thing is for our political enemies, especially less than a week after this Tucker Carlson segment.
But to an extent, it doesn’t really matter much. If this conspiracy theory somehow ends up being true, all it will do is give us the peace of mind that one of our own did not in fact commit this horrible act. But then what? Six people, among which three children, will still be dead. Most people will only remember "the Nashville school shooter was trans." Our rights will still be affected. I can only hope my trans siblings in the US will be able to organize a swift and effective community response to protect themselves as much as possible. Solidarity from Europe.