{"id":115175,"date":"2026-02-17T17:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=115175"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:07:15","slug":"115175","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=115175","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLUF<br \/>\nI would only add it&#8217;s time to treat the mental illness like we used to and not play into and reinforce the delusions. We&#8217;re costing lives playing this game. It needs to stop. And perhaps we should be looking at treating transgenderism itself as a mental illness, again. The indicators are clearly there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/eric-florack\/2026\/02\/17\/trans-shooters-the-patterns-are-well-established-n4949591\">Trans Shooters: The Patterns Are Well Established.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here we go again, I note this morning with a sad shake of the head. Our Catherine Salgado\u2019s piece on the Rhode Island hockey game shooter reports that he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/catherinesalgado\/2026\/02\/16\/breaking-hockey-game-shooter-identified-as-transgender-n4949590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identifies as \u201ctransgender.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lesson that comes from encouraging mentally ill people to indulge their insanity and to express violent hatred against those who do not affirm their illness is written in the blood of children killed at the high school hockey game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/eric-florack\/2026\/02\/02\/the-curious-case-of-george-zinn-and-what-it-tells-us-n4949008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my column on the case of George Zinn?<\/a>\u00a0He\u2019s the one who jumped up, claiming that he was the one who shot Charlie Kirk, not Tyler Robinson? Both Zinn and Robinson shared at least one trait: mental Illness, which includes sexual deviancy. Remember, I\u2019ve already written about Zinn, in which I quoted a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/01\/us-news\/george-zinn-elderly-man-who-falsely-claimed-he-shot-charlie-kirk-to-distract-police-sentenced-for-child-sex-crimes\/?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter#Echobox=1769927782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Post article:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The elderly man who falsely claimed he shot Charlie Kirk to create mass confusion during the conservative influencer\u2019s assassination cried out in court as he was sentenced to prison for keeping \u201cgraphic\u201d sexual photos of children.<\/p>\n<p>George Zinn, 71, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor on Thursday after police discovered the vile photos on his cellphone when he was detained at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>He also pleaded no contest to an obstruction of justice charge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p data-pasted=\"true\">Then, too, there\u2019s the case of Robinson himself, who was romantically involved with Lance Twiggs, himself another victim of transgenderism, and who, according to contacts within his family,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/tyler-robinson-roommate-transgender-2129832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201chates conservatives and Christians,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and who, according to other sources, influenced Robinson&#8217;s politics in the year they had been dating.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the mass shooting last August at Annunciation Catholic Church and Catholic School in Minnesota. The shooter? Robert &#8220;Robin&#8221; Westman, who shot some 19 people, including 14 children, two fatally, before pointing the gun at himself.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/i-wish-i-never-brain-washed-myself-minnesota-school-shooter-had-trans-regret\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">His manifesto<\/a>\u00a0told us the story: &#8220;I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brainwashed myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next on this bloody hit parade is Audrey \u201cAiden\u201d Hale, who in March 2023 entered the Covenant school in Nashville, killing three young students and three staff members before being shot and killed by police.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we have the case of Anderson Lee Aldrich, who on Nov. 19, 2022, killed five people and injured 40 at Club Q, in Colorado Springs, an LGBTQ nightclub. He\u2019s serving a life sentence.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more, of course, but I think the pattern is pretty firmly established. Part of that pattern is the knee-jerk response of blaming conservatives and Christians for the attacks. It doesn\u2019t need to make sense; it just needs to be repeated, often and loudly.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That brings us up to date, so back to the Rhode Island hockey rink:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=2023581037834744210&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Feric-florack%2F2026%2F02%2F17%2Ftrans-shooters-the-patterns-are-well-established-n4949591&amp;sessionId=5beb27a00996274e9656b78ad17588059a3b7f87&amp;siteScreenName=PJMedia_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"2023581037834744210\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Catherine&#8217;s been doing a good job of covering these events for us. She points out, &#8220;This shooting comes a few days after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/rick-moran\/2026\/02\/11\/at-least-9-dead-25-wounded-in-canadian-school-shooting-n4949368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-pasted=\"true\">mass shooting<\/a>\u00a0committed by a transgender-identifying young man in Canada, who murdered his mother and 11-year-old brother.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not forget Bondi Beach, in Australia, which not only matches the pattern under discussion but also points out the fantasy that banning guns will prevent such attacks. \u00a0In that case,<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/eric-florack\/2026\/02\/13\/our-twisted-media-going-all-out-to-maintain-the-narrative-n4949455\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0I said at the time:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We all watched the other day as the legacy media reinvented the nomenclature for a murderous gunman who considered himself a woman and shot up innocents, including elementary school kids. It was a \u201cgunperson,\u201d we were told, whom the media went out of their way to call \u201cher\u201d and she\u201d and even correct anyone who used what they call the \u201cincorrect pronouns.\u201d They held, apparently, that the killer&#8217;s feelings were more important than the number of people with bullets in them because this troubled man was &#8220;transgender.&#8221; (Yes, I said &#8216;man&#8221;.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the number of dead in that case, it seems clear that banning guns isn&#8217;t the solution. But more to the point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; such people are committing such crimes at a much higher rate than the general population. A report out from the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Jan. 9 of this year says that nearly 50% of trans-identifying people have sex crime convictions, as opposed to around 10% of the general male population. We used to commit such people to the local R wing, where they could get the kind of mental health care they need, or at least the public is protected from them. But our press wants us to play into their fantasy. We have to go to the press outside of our country to find people asking questions like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/cross-sex-drugs-driving-trans-140025899.html\" target=\"_self\" data-pasted=\"true\">Are cross-sex drugs driving trans shooters to kill?<\/a>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Catherine correctly asks, and I&#8217;ll quote her because I can&#8217;t do better than she does here, &#8220;How many transgender shooters does it take to stop leftists from lauding the delusion that one can change one\u2019s biological sex and demand everyone agree?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I would only add it&#8217;s time to treat the mental illness like we used to and not play into and reinforce the delusions. We&#8217;re costing lives playing this game. It needs to stop. And perhaps we should be looking at treating transgenderism itself as a mental illness, again. The indicators are clearly there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLUF I would only add it&#8217;s time to treat the mental illness like we used to and not play into and reinforce the delusions. We&#8217;re costing lives playing this game. It needs to stop. And perhaps we should be looking at treating transgenderism itself as a mental illness, again. The indicators are clearly there. 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