Nearly a week after a ‘trans’-identifying gunman went on a rampage in western Canada killing eight and injuring dozens more in one of the deadliest shootings in the country’s history, a man pretending to be a woman shot and killed multiple members of his family at a youth hockey game in Rhode Island Monday.
Rhode Island Slayings
The 56-year-old biological man, who underwent so-called gender reassignment surgery in 2020, opened fire at the Pawtucket ice rink where one of his sons was playing Monday afternoon. According to a GoFundMe set up for the surviving family members, the gunman murdered his elder son and ex-wife and critically wounded her parents before turning the gun on himself.
The New York Post reported a woman leaving the Pawtucket police station in the wake of the disturbing murders identified herself as the gunman’s daughter and told reporters her father “has mental health issues” and was “very sick.”
“He shot my family, and he’s dead now,” she said.
Tumbler Ridge Tragedy
In the remote town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, an 18-year-old male, who law enforcement said had been identifying as a girl since the age of 12, shot and killed his mother and step-brother at their family home before murdering six more and injuring dozens at the nearby Tumbler Ridge Secondary School last Tuesday.
The victims at the school included a female teacher, three female students, and two male students between the ages of 13 and 17. The gunman was found dead at the scene from what authorities called a “self-inflicted injury.”
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) came under fire for what they did and did not say about the suspect in the aftermath of the shooting. An initial alert issued about the active shooter at the school described the suspect as a “female in a dress with brown hair.”
The police superintendent later characterized the shooter in a press briefing as a “gun person,” fueling speculation that the shooter may have identified as ‘transgender.’ RCMP eventually confirmed the speculation, identifying the shooter as a resident of Tumbler Ridge who was born male and began presenting as a girl around the age of 12.
At a press conference, the deputy police commissioner pushed back on claims that authorities were withholding the information about the shooter, instead saying the department is simply respecting his identity.
“We’re not hiding it,” he said. “I will say this. We identify the suspect as they chose to be identified in public and in social media. I can say that Jesse was born as a biological male who approximately– the information that I have, approximately six years ago began to transition to female and identified as female both socially and publicly.”
When a journalist subsequently referred to the shooter as a “he,” the commissioner issued a correction. “So, the suspect is identifying as an 18-year-old female,” he responded.
Manufactured Delusion
These two tragedies mark the latest acts of violence in North America to be carried out by members of the so-called ‘trans’ community. On Tuesday’s show, Buck Sexton joined Megyn to talk about his new book, Manufacturing Delusion, which takes a look at “how the left uses brainwashing, indoctrination, and propaganda against” the average person.
He said the rise of radical gender ideology is one such example. “Menticide is based on artificial breakdown and deconditioning. The artificial breakdown… in the case of the trans situation… is… people not only are led to believe that you can’t tell the difference between a man and a woman, or that a baby is ‘assigned gender at birth,'” Sexton explained. “We have all on the right been making jokes about the pronouns thing for a long time… but it’s actually gotten quite serious, as we see with more and more of these mass shooting incidents involving trans individuals.”
“If I can’t tell the difference between a man and a woman, or rather, if I’m willing to have someone else tell me that there is no difference biologically… what else am I open to,” he added. “What other kind of persuasion, what other kind of rewriting of my basic circuitry is possible?”
Megyn said the alert that went out to Tumbler Ridge residents in the wake of the massacre illustrates just how dangerous this “rewriting” has gotten. “The initial alert described the shooter as a ‘female in a dress with brown hair.’ I mean, that’s just dangerous. You’re just actually endangering lives. It was a man dressed as a woman pretending to be female,” she noted. “He was a biological male who started identifying as female… and they appeased him, they coddled him, they affirmed him, and he, like so many – including the guy who just shot up the Rhode Island ice skating rink yesterday – was driven to madness.”
“None of the coddling or appeasing wound up helping him, and it actually endangered their families and those around them, including the community,” she continued. “And even in death, in a place as nutty as Canada – I’m sorry to my Canadian friends, but your country’s lost its mind – they will lecture you on pronouns, posthumously, standing in a field of blood with the 25 people who are still struggling to save their lives, with eight dead all around them.”
Sexton believes that comes from a “weaponization” of kindness, in which people are told to ‘affirm’ instead of getting individuals like these two murderers the mental health services they needed. “I hate when people weaponize kindness,” he lamented. “The most beautiful human thing is to be kind to each other and to take care of each other.”
“But when they say, ‘Be kind, use the pronouns’ or ‘pretend that the 200-pound guy who is, you know, breaking girls noses on the female lacrosse field is just a girl like everybody else,’ first of all, they’re being quite unkind to those women,” Sexton concluded. “And in the case of these horrible situations with these mass shootings, it really is evil for the state and for the society.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Sexton by tuning in to episode 1,254 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Channel (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.