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Why are Trans people able to buy guns?

Rhode Island ice rink shooting suspect's gender identity was source of past family conflict: docs
Robert ( Roberta ) Dorgan is accused of opening fire during youth hockey game in what police called a 'family dispute'

Gender Dysphoria is a mental problem. I thought those with mental problems could not buy guns.

2 weeks ago in Canada another Trans person killed 9 people. It seems that .1% of people are committing
50% of mass shootings.

Why isn't anyone talking about this phenomenon?
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Gender Dysphoria is no longer categorized as a mental illness, so unless they have a labeled mental illness, it doesn't apply. Plus in many states, whether you have a mental illness or not isn't even looked at.

Edit: And yes, many people are already mentioning this. They have been since before this last one.
@DogMan You listed only what the DSM is. GD was removed from the list several years ago. It is no longer considered a mental illness. You don't remember that? It did hit the news and was all over online. Homosexuality also used to be considered a mental illness. That was removed quite some time prior.
DogMan · 61-69, M
@Magicianzini GD is still considered a DSM-5 mental disorder.
@DogMan It's a diagnosis, not a mental illness .. according to DSM-5, to be specific. It's addressed by confirming the person's gender and "usually" offering CBT to treat the distress (anxiety and depression) that comes from dealing with society re: one's perceived gender.

It wasn't long ago where it was considered a mental illness according to the DSM-5 - but that since has quite recently changed. As I said, even homosexuality was once considered a mental illness.

Classifications evolve.. if the DSM-5 is what interests you.
DogMan · 61-69, M
This is part of the problem. Anyone that does not accept and celebrate the trans lifestyle
is labeled a bigot. Why does everyone have to go along with everything everyone does.

See attached response by the killer a day before he snapped.


The killer said it best, if you do not play along, then you are bashing.

Below is the mean tweet that set him off.

trollslayer · 46-50, M
@DogMan I don’t know anything about this person, but based on appearance alone I would not have a problem. I’ve been around many trans people in my life, and none have felt threatening to me.
trollslayer · 46-50, M
@DogMan I will add this person does not look like the trans people I have been around. To me, this looks more like a man wearing women’s clothes - that is not the same as being trans. Again, I don’t know the story here.
DogMan · 61-69, M
@trollslayer Yeah, I say if you can pull it off, go for it. This guy can't pull it off.
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
2 weeks ago in Canada another Trans person killed 9 people. It seems that .1% of people are committing
50% of mass shootings.

Wow! Did you major in statistics? Those two events are cherry picked out of how many mass shootings in just the last few months?

Dorgan clearly had mental issues around his gender identity, not being able to settle on one, exhibiting and expressing flashes of anger and threats of action. That does not extrapolate into labeling ALL trans-gender people. Most are quietly trying to sort out their gender identity ambiguity and transitioning, if that is their decision.
DogMan · 61-69, M
@dancingtongue Who is labeling ALL trans people?
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
@DogMan Your original statement went from talking about a shooter with Gender Dysphoria to the prior Canadian shooter, asking why no one is talking about the connection between Trans people and mass shootings. Sounds like extrapolating a couple of people with established mental health problems to ALL trans people to me.

And followed up in a response to another post:

This is part of the problem. Anyone that does not accept and celebrate the trans lifestyle
is labeled a bigot.

You don't have to accept and celebrate the trans lifestyle. But you shouldn't blanketly assume that a couple of individuals with acknowledged mental issues, apparently at least partially tied to gender identification issues but both considered primarily domestic violence issues against their parents, are representative of all trans people.
DogMan · 61-69, M
Historically trans people have not been involved with mass murders as the following says.

The Gun Violence Archive, an independent organization that tracks gun-related violence in the U.S., defines mass shootings as incidents in which there are “a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident.” Under this standard, there were 5,748 mass shootings between Jan. 1, 2013, and Sept. 15, 2025, according to the GVA. “OF THAT NUMBER OF INCIDENTS, there have been FIVE CONFIRMED Transgender shooters,” Mark Bryant, the GVA’s founding executive director, told us in an email.

The problem is that those 5 mass murders were committed within the last two years, and now
the total is seven, in the past two years. From 2013 to 2023 Zero murders by trans people.

Why the change?
sree251 · 41-45, M
@DogMan
Why the change?

If you asked me, trans people are part of the LGBT phenomenon. It used to be just lesbians and gays, a harmless lot best left to themselves. Guns are abhorrent to them and the two do not mix. Then, the trans strain got virulent and started affecting mainline macho men. These guys need order in their lives. They are freight trains that need to run on tracks. When we start messing with traditional social structures, we are fooling with those tracks.
Timeforsun · 51-55, F
And I have not heard any of the typical gun grabbers saying anything. It's interesting who they don't mind having guns and who they want to strip guns away.
DogMan · 61-69, M
@Timeforsun Exactly, strange isn't it. But they are blaming the people that do not love and
accept trans people as normal.
DogMan · 61-69, M
The crazed transgender dad who shot up a high school hockey game in Rhode Island threatened to go “BERSERK” in a trans-rights rant just a day before he massacred two family members and injured three others.

Robert Dorgan, who also identified as Roberta Esposito, killed himself after opening fire at the Pawtucket ice rink where his son was playing on Monday afternoon — less than a week after another transgender gunman shot up a school in one of Canada’s deadliest mass shootings.

The night before the bloodshed, the 56-year-old dad — who underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2020 — made an ominous post on X in anger at someone calling trans Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride a man.
Vericusalt · 26-30, F
I saw an FBI man on TV and he said 97.5% of the mass shootings are by men.
DogMan · 61-69, M
@Vericusalt It sounds like you are counting trans women as men.
Vericusalt · 26-30, F
@DogMan Not according to the experts. It's heterosexual men. Angry heterosexual men who have a grievance with soceity.
PatKirby · M
@Vericusalt

So men have a monopoly on violence?
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trollslayer · 46-50, M
2nd amendment…
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
That small a percentage of the population should never have statistics as high as they have for something like self deletion or gun violence.
Carla · 61-69, F
Why are trump supporters able to buy guns?
Just days ago, in texas, a straight, white man shot his daughter dead over a disagreement about trump.
Carla · 61-69, F
@DogMan do you blame jim jones on his cults actions?
DogMan · 61-69, M
@Carla Nope I blame individuals.
sree251 · 41-45, M
@DogMan
what was his name? I would like to look it up?

Look it up in link below. It was an accident. Nothing to do with argument if any.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/11/british-woman-lucy-harrison-unlawfully-killed-by-father-kris-harrison-texas
AbbeyRhode · F
The propaganda media will never say a word about it, because treating mental illness by mutilating people, including children, is part of the Democrats' sick, perverted agenda.
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craig7 · 70-79, M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Yes,and they still don't look convincing!

 
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