Brianna Keilar challenged Sebastian Gorka for promoting a connection between a Minneapolis Catholic school shooting and a prior Nashville incident by focusing on transgender identity. Keilar cited the Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center finding that 96 percent of 172 mass attacks from 2016 to 2020 were committed by non-trans men. Keilar warned that zeroing in on a shooter's transgender status can obscure broader patterns of school shootings as an epidemic. Gorka argued the attack carried ideological content and urged focus on attacks at Christian or Catholic schools. Keilar added CNN data showing only three of 32 major school shootings since 2020 involved transgender shooters.
When you're looking at the Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center, looking at 172 mass attacks in the US between 2016 and 2020, 96 per cent were non-trans men. I know you're focusing on this shooter being trans. The shooter was trans and that is certainly of note, but are you missing the bigger picture here when you zero in on that instead of more broadly these school shooters as an epidemic, and you perhaps miss [what] connects them all?
By CNN's count, when you look at 32 school shootings since 2020, in which you have four or more people who have been killed, only three of those shootings were committed by transgender shooters... it's simple math. We can't stick with your facts because they're not accurate.
So, don't conflate different data sets just to make a political point. There was an ideological content to this attack. That's what terrorism is.
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