Moments before Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on stage at a Utah college, he was confronted with a question tied to one of his most contentious talking points.
“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” an audience member asked Kirk, 31, during his event at Utah Valley University.
Kirk’s reply was curt: “Too many.”
In reality, transgender people have been responsible for only a tiny fraction of mass shootings. According to the Gun Violence Archive, just 0.11% of such incidents over the past decade involved transgender suspects.
That same audience member—who has not been identified—told Kirk the number is five, and asked if the Turning Point USA founder if knew how many total mass shooters have been in America over the past ten years.
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