Perfect! Right and Left are rigidifying their superficial pet “explanations” for why a mass shooter did what she did
Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| March 2026
Ideological bigots make ONE shooter the poster for Canada’s 100,000 transgender individuals and 5 million teens/young adults long before facts are known.
Back in 2020, 51-year-old alcoholic, arsonist, and police car enthusiast Gabriel Wortman carried out multiple shootings, killing 22 people in Nova Scotia in 2020 – the deadliest shooting rampage in Canadian history.
Strangely, no one argued there was something terribly wrong with middle-aged men, or blamed them for being straight or buying booze, accelerants, and used cop cars.
October 2017
The Canadian government since banned 2,500 types of assault weapons, including the dozens America’s worst mass shooter, 64-year-old heavy drinker and gambler Stephen Paddock, assembled.
Paddock fired more than 1,000 rounds from his hotel room perch at a Las Vegas music festival, killing 60 people, wounding at least 413, and causing 450 more injuries in the ensuing panic.
Recalls satirist Kinky Friedman’s tune memorializing 1966’s University of Texas Tower shooter Charles Joseph Whitman, whose rampage took a leisurely 96 minutes to gun down 45 people with his .36 Magnum, killing 14 (47 total casualties, adding two knife murders back home). No one suggested a crisis among ex-Eagle Scouts, ex-Marines, or men with flat-top crewcuts, though Friedman did warn, “There’s still a lot of Eagle Scouts around.”
Also, “Who are we to say the boy’s insane?” You see, nothing much changed in half a century except that Paddock used far more lethal AR10/15 bumpstocked riflery and took a mere 10 minutes to inflict 473 gunshot and 927 total casualties in Las Vegas.
Strangely, no one argued there’s a crisis among aging adults or called for older people to be banned from guns, drinking, and gambling.
No one, despite this unsettling fact: Paddock’s gunfire killed and injured more people in 10 minutes than are killed and injured in all school shootings in 5 years. That shocker is one gun-rights and gun-control lobbies alike absolutely ban from ever being mentioned in American media and political forums.
February 2026
Now, a mass shooting by Canadian 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar killing 9 and injuring 25 is generating the next predictable round of sweeping generalizations.
It must have been her “transgender identification” (right wingers, delighting in misgendering, called her “him”). Ban the 100,000 Canadians who identify as transgender, the large majority under age 25. They’re all guilty!
It must have been that she was “‘addicted to gore and violence web sites” (mainstream/liberal/Leftists). Surely blaming video games and “addictive” social media will be next. Ban 5 million young Canadians from everything: gender transitions, social media, Grand Theft Auto, whatever pops into aging heads must be “the problem.”
Fun for all!
Don’t bother us with details
The tragedy couldn’t have anything to do with the slowly emerging facts that Jesse’s family was bizarrely “nomadic” and moved every few months, that her parents were bitterly divorced and estranged, that authorities had seized firearms from her home and then for no apparent reason returned them, that she had dropped out of school years earlier and been repeatedly detained for mental health troubles, that her mother was a “conservative-leaning libertarian” who declared of anti-transgender bigots, “Do you have any idea how many kids are killing themselves over this kind of hate?” … and more to be discovered.
Complications! No fun!
If everyone else can speculate, so can I. Citing neuroscience: the left-right opiners’ over-25 brains, far from being “developed” and “mature,” are deteriorating relics losing memory and learning genes and cognition by the day. You can tell I’m losing it.
I suggest that’s why the accusers after every tragedy involving a young person blare the same quick recitations before the facts are even nearly known.