https://www.advocate.com/voices/far-right-ignores-maga-shooters
When shooters are MAGA and anti-LGBTQ+, the right suddenly loses its appetite for conspiracy theories
A trans roommate becomes a national scandal, but MAGA shooters barely make the news
by John Casey
October 01 2025 7:00 AM EST
Tragically, another week in America, and more mass shootings. A Mormon church in Michigan. And from a boat, shots were fired into a waterfront bar in North Carolina. Different places, different victims, different families left shattered.
Yet there was one glaring similarity, and that is that both shooters were reportedly fueled by MAGA, anti-LGBTQ+ rage.
Let the silence from the far right and the Trump administration begin.
Where are the wall-to-wall news stories dissecting every detail of their families? Where are the frantic Kash Patel and Pam Bondi tweets connecting roommates or cousins or neighbors to a transgender individual with some imagined radical-left conspiracy?
Where is all the breathless speculation? It’s not there, because the shooters don’t fit the right’s favorite homophobic and transphobic talking points.
Compare this silence with the frenzy that followed the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. The second the far right learned that Kirk’s shooter had a trans roommate, someone who had absolutely nothing to do with the crime, the smear campaign went into overdrive.
Consider how the New York Post plastered “trans roommate” across its coverage as though being transgender was itself evidence of guilt. Patel sent out scores of accusations and misinformation. Online trolls spread false claims about “trans messages” written on bullet casings, which was not true.
In fact, that roommate is likely to be the government’s key witness against the shooter. But the damage was done. The LGBTQ+ community was once again dragged through the mud, vilified as if every queer person in America had pulled the trigger.
So, now we have the North Carolina shooter, who left behind a trail of anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracies. The Michigan shooter, who walked into a house of worship with MAGA ties and rage against the Mormon Church.
But because they are straight white MAGA men, the coverage disappears after one day. The far right doesn’t want to talk about it. No frantic digging into their roommates’ social media. No attempts to smear their families. No tweets from Bondi about the evils of being trans. The hypocrisy is ridiculous.
Before Kirk was murdered, one of the last questions he answered from the stage was about transgender mass shooters. “Too many,” he responded, when asked how many there had been in the past decade. But the opposite holds true. That same disinformation machine roared into action after his murder, not to deal with the actual shooter but to turn the spotlight on an innocent trans roommate.
But after last weekend’s shootings, the spotlight went dim. Because if we look too closely at these latest shooters, we’d have to face the fact that the very movement that spends an inordinate amount of time demonizing LGBTQ+ Americans is also the one that is all about guns, machoness and hate.
It’s redundant and jaded, but America has really become a shooting gallery, and it bears repeating every time we have these mass shootings. Honestly and sadly, you can’t keep track anymore, whether it's schools, concerts, churches, or lakeside bars.
While the bullets are dangerous, so are the lies that can be associated with them when it fits the narrative of the far right. The lie that queer people are somehow driving this violence. The lie that trans Americans are waiting on every rooftop. The lie that MAGA violence is a fantasy concocted by the “radical left.”
Mass shootings have no place in this country. None. Zero. But neither does scapegoating marginalized communities just to score political points. Every time Patel or Bondi or right-wing media launch another baseless smear, they put a target on LGBTQ+ Americans.
They normalize hate. And by doing so they put queer people at great risk. They also, cruelly, make the next shooting more likely.
And presiding over it all is Trump, who glorifies violence with his ICE raids and military invasions of cities. He who revels in hate speech even at a memorial service and who wraps his arms around the gun lobby while demonizing marginalized communities that his base so eagerly vilifies.
He won’t stop, mainly because he doesn’t want to, and also because he doesn’t know how. If Trump thinks you think he’s wrong, he just digs in more. That’s why his words are like lighter fluid, and his followers are the coals who soak in it..
Where is the outrage after last weekend? Why aren’t these shooters’ roommates being stalked by reporters? Why isn’t every MAGA Facebook post blazing with trans hate? Why does the fury only spin out of control when there’s a queer person in the vicinity?
Because it’s always about hate and hypocrisy.
https://www.advocate.com/voices/far-right-ignores-maga-shooters
@Suzianne said"For reasons passing understanding Americans do not relate guns with gun related crimes"
https://www.advocate.com/voices/far-right-ignores-maga-shooters
When shooters are MAGA and anti-LGBTQ+, the right suddenly loses its appetite for conspiracy theories
A trans roommate becomes a national scandal, but MAGA shooters barely make the news
by John Casey
October 01 2025 7:00 AM EST
Tragically, another week in America, and more mass shootings ...[text shortened]... lways about hate and hypocrisy.
https://www.advocate.com/voices/far-right-ignores-maga-shooters
Michael Douglas - The American President 1995
@Suzianne
I've said this before, but it bears repeating: it's the far-right which wreaks more havoc and kills more people than the extreme left. Studies confirm it.
A U.S. Justice Dept. report finds rightwing extremists have killed more Americans than other domestic terrorist groups.
quote:
Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.
end quote
Here is a link to the original study report in full, with "stats", dated Jan. 4, 2024:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911012550/https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism
Moreover, the right wing does not want people to know this. Republicans took this page down from the U.S. govt. web site; it is now available only at an archive site.
@moonbus saidBe impressed that I looked at your link, but did not see where it plainly proves what you ravers are claiming. If MAGA is doing all the mayhem, one would think you would send a flat-out proof of same, not a tome that no one will read. Or, one would think it would have, no matter now many pages it is, a small, very small, para that MAGA does it all.
@Suzianne
I've said this before, but it bears repeating: it's the far-right which wreaks more havoc and kills more people than the extreme left. Studies confirm it.
A U.S. Justice Dept. report finds rightwing extremists have killed more Americans than other domestic terrorist groups.
quote:
Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased i ...[text shortened]... icans took this page down from the U.S. govt. web site; it is now available only at an archive site.
Send us that, or get'off it.
@Suzianne saidYou are right. I googled, and every study and every link and website and government and private studies and reports show that MAGA iis indeed universally responsible, every one. Studies confirm it!
https://www.advocate.com/voices/far-right-ignores-maga-shooters
When shooters are MAGA and anti-LGBTQ+, the right suddenly loses its appetite for conspiracy theories
A trans roommate becomes a national scandal, but MAGA shooters barely make the news
by John Casey
October 01 2025 7:00 AM EST
Tragically, another week in America, and more mass shootings ...[text shortened]... lways about hate and hypocrisy.
https://www.advocate.com/voices/far-right-ignores-maga-shooters
This will save you all a lot of searching, glad to help.
@Suzianne saidits called propaganda hun...they have learned they can lead you as if there was a ring in your nose and they hold the rope...
https://www.advocate.com/voices/far-right-ignores-maga-shooters
When shooters are MAGA and anti-LGBTQ+, the right suddenly loses its appetite for conspiracy theories
A trans roommate becomes a national scandal, but MAGA shooters barely make the news
by John Casey
October 01 2025 7:00 AM EST
Tragically, another week in America, and more mass shootings ...[text shortened]... lways about hate and hypocrisy.
https://www.advocate.com/voices/far-right-ignores-maga-shooters
yo?
@Mott-The-Hoople saidYou have at least heard of facts, yeah?
its called propaganda hun...they have learned they can lead you as if there was a ring in your nose and they hold the rope...
yo?
Irony Man strikes again!
@AverageJoe1 saidBut I don't lie, like you do.
Be impressed that I looked at your link, but did not see where it plainly proves what you ravers are claiming. If MAGA is doing all the mayhem, one would think you would send a flat-out proof of same, not a tome that no one will read. Or, one would think it would have, no matter now many pages it is, a small, very small, para that MAGA does it all.
Send us that, or get'off it.
You might not mind choosing data biased to your opinion, even if untrue. I cannot do this.
If I were to do this, I'd be graded down, most mercilessly, and for good reason.
So I reject your Trumpian plea for more lies. Save your lies for the next Cabinet meeting, maybe Trump will praise you back. (Don't hold your breath.)
@Suzianne saidthis post adds nothing to the conversation just sayin. tighten it up
But I don't lie, like you do.
You might not mind choosing data biased to your opinion, even if untrue. I cannot do this.
If I were to do this, I'd be graded down, most mercilessly, and for good reason.
So I reject your Trumpian plea for more lies. Save your lies for the next Cabinet meeting, maybe Trump will praise you back. (Don't hold your breath.)
@AverageJoe1 saidGiven your givens, it is a bit more of the same.
this post adds nothing to the conversation just sayin. tighten it up
Goober.