“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” an audience member asked.
“Too many,” Kirk responded to applause from the crowd.
The attendee informed him that the total was five and continued: “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”
“Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk replied before, just seconds later, he was struck by the bullet and fell from his chair, prompting the panicked crowd to disperse in terror.
The reason he brought up that point was to support his proposition that trans people are violent.
Here is the context. It really was an attempt to paint trans people as violent.
The reason he brought up that point was to support his proposition that trans people are violent.