Far Right Spreading Misinformation That Lakewood Shooter Was Trans

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

The far-right is desperate to make "trans terrorism" a thing. So desperate, in fact, that it's willing to push out incorrect or false information just to shore up their baseless narrative that trans people are inherently dangerous.

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The shooter was also being treated for schizophrenia, according to a Facebook post by her ex-mother-in-law, Rabbi Walli Carranza. Carranza described her as a "very sweet and loving woman," and railed against the fact that Texas does not have a "red flag law" in place that would allow concerned family members to remove firearms from people believed to be a danger to themselves or others. The shooter legally purchased her AR-15 in December 2023, police said.

"[The shooter] had a particular kind of schizophrenia that caused her to become violent," Carranza told KHOU, a CNN affiliate. "She threatened her husband, my own son, and we still couldn't get intervention."

In addition to having an extensive history of mental health troubles, the shooter has a long criminal record which includes, among other things, forgery, theft, assault of a detention officer, and unlawful carrying of a weapon.

The far-right has been laser focused on the concept of "trans terrorism""just one prong of their all-out assault on LGBTQ rights"ever since a transgender man carried out a mass shooting at a Christian school in Nashville where he was once a student.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2024-02-13 01:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Didn't she have "Free Palestine" painted on her gun? And the kid was a human shied (dead now). NBC says they found anti-semitic writings in her house.

www.nbcnews.com

She went after the Spanish only sermon, and was from Guatemala as of 2003 or something like that, legal immigrant.

So a South American Woke Nazi, not a trans. We've seen those before.

#2 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2024-02-13 05:47 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Yeah, in the mirror every time you shave... or do you still have to shave since the treatments?

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-13 06:31 PM | Reply

"Didn't she have "Free Palestine" painted on her gun?"

That's not enough to take away her Second Amendment rights.

"NBC says they found anti-semitic writings in her house."

That's not enough to take away her Second Amendment rights either.

"And the kid was a human shied (dead now)."

Do we know if he was killed by the cops yet?

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-13 06:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#3 Don have terrorism to support somewhere? Someone to censor? A Jew to hate? You're a woke Nazi monster, Corky. And you sure as hell aren't a Christian.

#5 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2024-02-13 09:11 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

And you sure as hell aren't a Christian.

#5 | Posted by HeliumRat

Let me guess, REAL christians support the politician who is the total opposite of everything jesus taught his followers to be?

#6 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-13 09:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Texas allowed a literal ------ person to buy an AR15. Their policies got these people killed. Theres zero denying it so they have to retreat into a delusional world where wokeness is the problem, therefore the shooter needs to be trans.

#7 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-13 09:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Speaks, pretty sure the FBI had to give the okay first but I'm glad to know you have zero clue as to how firearm transactions take place.

#8 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-02-13 09:23 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

@#5 ... You're a woke Nazi monster, Corky. And you sure as hell aren't a Christian. ...

[said in reply to #3]

Wow, just friggin's wow.

I mean, how can an alias destroy its credibility in just one post?

If you need an example, look at #5 on this thread.

I, in the past have, let's say, humored that alias regrading the UFO things it has posted.

Those posts were fun, and had a modicum of facts behind them.

But in #5, the alias has just gone, well, my opinion is bat-crap crazy.

Wow.

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-13 09:32 PM | Reply

@#8 ... pretty sure the FBI had to give the okay first ...

If your current alias is "pretty sure," evidence please.

thx.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-13 09:34 PM | Reply

What's hilarious about Hrat, well, besides most of his posts.... is that you can always tell when you've struck a nerve; when you've hit home with a remark.

So, Hrat... these are on sale now, don't dawdle!

www.walmart.com

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-13 09:49 PM | Reply

Maybe the real lesson is not that "trans" people are potentially dangerous, but really, people who go to church are dangerous. That does seem to be more in line with the current reality in America.

#12 | Posted by moder8 at 2024-02-13 09:51 PM | Reply

Astute observation, my dear M8.

Truth is that Evangelicals make up just 14 percent of the US population.

They are just really squeaky wheels.

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-13 09:56 PM | Reply

@#8 ... pretty sure the FBI had to give the okay first ...
If your current alias is "pretty sure," evidence please.
- GasLighter

Texas Currently Contacts FBI for All Firearms Background Checks

The Texas Department of Public Safety is required to provide federal prohibited person information to the FBI for use with the National Instant Criminal Background Check system (NICS.)

Texas forwards the information to NICS via its Criminal Justice Information System for all checks.
www.usacarry.com

The shooter legally purchased her AR-15 in December 2023, police said..

The question is if the FBI said "NO", would Texas ignore?

#14 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-02-13 10:15 PM | Reply

When a schizophrenic trans man does good deeds, they don't get questioned and deadnamed.

#15 | Posted by AustinTX at 2024-02-13 10:17 PM | Reply

Lamplighter, if you go into a store to buy a gun you MUST pass an FBI background check. So unless it was a Fast and Furious Obama gun, this failure isn't Texas' but the Federal Government.

Furthermore back to topic at hand, even the Houston Chronicle identified the shooter as Trans. So interesting that telling the truth is "misinformation."

#16 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-02-13 10:19 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

@#14 ... @#8 ... pretty sure the FBI had to give the okay first ...
If your current alias is "pretty sure," evidence please.
...

If I had actually stated, "pretty sure the FBI had to give the okay first" that your current alias attributes to me, I would have no issue with responding.

However, your current alias seems to try to ascribe a comment to me that was stated by a different current alias (in #8).

Do try harder.

:)

#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-13 10:28 PM | Reply

@#16 ... Lamplighter, if you go into a store to buy a gun you MUST pass an FBI background check....

What have ye to say about the gun show exemption?

And that is just for starters...

#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-13 10:30 PM | Reply

Lamp, my best friend has his FFL; he manufactures and sells them. Everyone he sells to has to go through the background check and has told me the majority of other small time manufacturers and sellers do the same to avoid down the road liability. If the gun was legally purchased it was a failure on the FBI's system.

#19 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-02-13 10:45 PM | Reply

@#19 ... Everyone he sells to has to go through the background check and has told me the majority of other small time manufacturers and sellers do the same to avoid down the road liability ...

Great for your best fried.

But your current alias' comment side-steps my question...

What about the gun-show exemption?

Gun show loophole
en.wikipedia.org

... Gun show loophole is a political term in the United States referring to the sale of firearms by private sellers, including those done at gun shows, that do not require the seller to conduct a federal background check of the buyer. ...

What say ye?

#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-13 10:50 PM | Reply

What about it? I'm telling you directly from someone within the industry and their practices overall. Have you been to a gunshow and purchased a firearm?

#21 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-02-13 11:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

@#21 ... What about it? ...

A nice deflection from my question to your current alias.

So I ask again, but this time with a follow-up question ...

What about the gun-show exemption? And why does your current alias apparently seem to want to deflect away from answering that question?

Once again, yer up...

#22 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-13 11:15 PM | Reply

Have you personally bought a gun at a gunshow to confirm or deny this?

#23 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-02-13 11:39 PM | Reply

Right. A schizo with a gun labeled "Free Palestine" tries to shoot up a Christian church, and terrorism isn't a motive - ask Corky, he supports terrorism - but instead its anything else.

#24 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2024-02-14 02:35 AM | Reply

"a failure on the FBI's system."

They'll never say killers shouldn't have the right to bear arms.

Never.

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-14 03:43 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#25 She had a fake birth certificate, that's how she got the gun. She was an illegal alien, they all do that. And she should have been deported. But you wouldn't let us. Shame. Shame two times.

#26 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2024-02-14 07:32 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

They'll never say killers shouldn't have the right to bear arms.

One of dementia don's first acts in office was to overturn an Obama policy that people who are claiming social security for "mental illness" could not buy a weapon.

Yet they always say "It's not the gun, it's the person" and then when laws are discussed to prevent mentally ill people from getting weapons they scream "NO!"

#27 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-02-14 07:48 AM | Reply

#27 Yeah, that's now one quarter of America. Had depression once? No gun for you. Read 1984? Paranoia. One day it will be "Delusions of Democracy", just wait.

#28 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2024-02-14 08:38 AM | Reply

They'll never say killers shouldn't have the right to bear arms.

#28 Thanks for demonstrating the point.

#29 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-14 08:45 AM | Reply

Lamplighter, if you go into a store to buy a gun you MUST pass an FBI background check. So unless it was a Fast and Furious Obama gun, this failure isn't Texas' but the Federal Government.
Furthermore back to topic at hand, even the Houston Chronicle identified the shooter as Trans. So interesting that telling the truth is "misinformation."

#16 | POSTED BY BLUEWAFFLES

So you ADMIT there are enough regulations barring people from owning guns who shouldn't have them?

Thank you for that admission!

#30 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-02-14 10:15 AM | Reply

One of dementia don's first acts in office was to overturn an Obama policy that people who are claiming social security for "mental illness" could not buy a weapon.

#27 | POSTED BY NIXON AT 2024-02-14 07:48 AM | FLAG:

Facts First: It's complicated. The Obama administration's rule, which took effect two days before Trump's inauguration, restricted people who required help managing government benefits and had a mental impairment from buying guns. That includes those with eating disorders, cognitive impairments and depression. Multiple disability groups, along with the American Civil Liberties Union opposed the regulation.

#31 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-02-14 10:20 AM | Reply

The ACLU, along with 23 disability groups opposed this rule and supported the bill repealing it. "The thousands of Americans whose disability benefits are managed by someone else range from young people with depression and financial inexperience to older adults with Down syndrome needing help with a limited budget," the ACLU wrote in February 2017, noting the wide range of individuals affected by the rule. "A disability should not constitute grounds for the automatic per se denial of any right or privilege, including gun ownership," the ACLU said in a separate letter that month.

#32 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-02-14 10:21 AM | Reply

#25 She had a fake birth certificate, that's how she got the gun. She was an illegal alien, they all do that. And she should have been deported. But you wouldn't let us. Shame. Shame two times.

#26 | POSTED BY HELIUMRAT

First, she was trans. Then that got debunked.

Then, its a fake birth certificate. That has already been debunked.

Any other lies?

#33 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-02-14 10:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

He's got plenty of other lies.... well, either they are lies, or he is really that ignorant.

Toss up, I'd say.

#34 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-14 10:45 AM | Reply

"Key questions remained Tuesday about Genesse Moreno's motive in the shooting, and police have given no details about where and how she obtained the rifle in December."

#35 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-02-14 10:51 AM | Reply

When a schizophrenic trans man does good deeds, they don't get questioned and deadnamed. When they do bad things, we discover that there's a gatekeeping committee who denies they were ever trans.

#36 | Posted by AustinTX at 2024-02-14 12:17 PM | Reply

"police have given no details about where and how she obtained the rifle in December."

That means the police know, they just aren't saying.

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-14 12:25 PM | Reply

Speaks, pretty sure the FBI had to give the okay first but I'm glad to know you have zero clue as to how firearm transactions take place.

#8 | Posted by Bluewaffles

everything is always someone else's fault isn't it? No shooting is EVER the fault of the party who let psychos buy guns.

#38 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-14 01:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Right. A schizo with a gun labeled "Free Palestine" tries to shoot up a Christian church, and terrorism isn't a motive - ask Corky, he supports terrorism - but instead its anything else.

#24 | POSTED BY HELIUMRAT

You should probability and get your facts correct before you post them or your efforts at spreading Russian propaganda in order to divide America will be in vain.

The weapon had a sticker that said "Palestine" on it not "Free Palestine".

The devil is in the details and apparently you haven't got one detail right yet.

#39 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-02-14 01:43 PM | Reply

#39... oooooooh just palestine you say?

So you believe the shooter leaned towards Free Palestine or F**k Palestine?

#40 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-02-14 02:01 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"shoot up a Christian church"

It's a shame she didn't burn it to the ground.
Joel Osteen belongs in prison, then hell.

#41 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-14 05:47 PM | Reply

a South American Woke Nazi, not a trans. We've seen those before.

#2 | POSTED BY HELIUMRAT

Replace the word woke with pathological liar and you describe George Santos.

#42 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-02-14 08:07 PM | Reply

Does anyone else feel like Helium would get caught up in red flag laws?

#43 | Posted by jpw at 2024-02-15 09:13 AM | Reply

When a schizophrenic trans man does good deeds, they don't get questioned and deadnamed. When they do bad things, we discover that there's a gatekeeping committee who denies they were ever trans.

#36 | POSTED BY AUSTINTX

Sticking with the lie, huh?

#44 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-02-15 09:56 AM | Reply

That includes those with eating disorders, cognitive impairments and depression

Do you think people with documented "cognitive impairments" and "depression" should be allowed to purchase an AR-15? This is a yes or no question.

#45 | Posted by JOE at 2024-02-15 10:25 AM | Reply

- You're a woke Nazi monster, Corky. And you sure as hell aren't a Christian.

#5 | POSTED BY HELIUMRAT

Why? Because I don't condemn people who have different imperfections than I do?

Jesus and Paul would both be kicked out of rwing churches today for being tolerant of others.

Jesus said...

"Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven."

Paul said...

"You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things."

Imperfections are common among us, we all have them, and they are all equally imperfect.

What we see now are self-righteous hypocrites condemning people who's imperfections are somewhat different than their own.

#46 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-15 10:57 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#39... oooooooh just palestine you say?
So you believe the shooter leaned towards Free Palestine or F**k Palestine?

#40 | POSTED BY KWRX25

Don't know. But I do know this. The facts matter.

#47 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-02-15 10:58 AM | Reply

I've seen some reporting that this person was trans, some that displayed uncertainty and some that this person was not trans.

#48 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-15 06:36 PM | Reply

"trans"

Explain how that is relevant to anything.
Thanks.

#49 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-15 06:38 PM | Reply

@#49 ... Explain how that is relevant to anything. ...

It seems to be that current alias' "go-to" when it apparently tries to deflect or disrupt a thread.

#50 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 06:44 PM | Reply

The real problem is this stupid guilt-by-association game that gets played.

The left absolutely thrives on it to the point of ------ any time they think they find some whacko who did something horrible they think they can tie to their political foes.

The right does it too, sometimes in the same manner but usually to call out hypocrisy.

This is a situation where the two sides are not the same.

#51 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-15 06:44 PM | Reply

For me, whether or not this person was trans is irrelevant.

#52 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-15 06:45 PM | Reply

She called herself Jeffrey. Totally not a trans.

#53 | Posted by libs_of_dr at 2024-02-15 06:46 PM | Reply

She was born in El Salvador. Totally not Hispanic.

#54 | Posted by libs_of_dr at 2024-02-15 06:48 PM | Reply

For me, whether or not this person was trans is irrelevant.

#52 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2024-02-15 06:45 PM | REPLY | FLAG:

You weren't the one lying about it.

#55 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-02-15 07:08 PM | Reply

The only important factor should be truth and never politics. Society needs to see the liars in government prosecuted to the hilt.

#56 | Posted by Robson at 2024-02-15 07:16 PM | Reply

Any govt official that swears allegiance to Constitution and then lies or fails to do that needs to spend the rest of their life in prison. No excuses.The solution to crooked govt is full bore prosecution of offenders with zero excuses.

#57 | Posted by Robson at 2024-02-15 07:22 PM | Reply

that's a surefire way to fill our government with George Santos clones.

Good luck prosecuting people for lying btw.

#58 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-02-15 07:26 PM | Reply

"they think they can tie to their political foes."

There's no Trans Fox News like there is regular Fox News, warning us that our country is being invaded.

There's nothing for you to tie "trans" to, you just went ahead and threw it out there.

#59 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-15 07:31 PM | Reply

Lies are all the Reich-wing has.

#60 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-02-15 07:59 PM | Reply

"Any govt official that swears allegiance to Constitution and then lies or fails to do that needs to spend the rest of their life in prison. No excuses."

#57 | POSTED BY ROBSON

I'm good with Fat Donnie Loser getting a life sentence. ARE YOU?

#61 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-02-15 08:00 PM | Reply

Far right wing misinformation?

Look no further than, "POSTED BY HELIUMRAT"

#62 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-15 08:05 PM | Reply

What do you expect from a party of bullies?
Disinformation and abuse of others. If they didn't have these, they would have absolutely nothing.

Certainly not accomplishments...

#63 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-02-15 08:14 PM | Reply

@#62 ... Look no further than, "POSTED BY HELIUMRAT" ...

In HeliumRat's defense, I often enjoy reading its posts.

I would not characterize its posts as "far right," though.

I would tend to characterize them more as those of a ~free-thinker.~

In the past, I've known a couple of folk who I'd call ~free-thinkers.~

They don't really seem to ascribe to a political slant, but, wow, they do seem to have an abundance of opinions to offer.

On everything.

#64 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 08:15 PM | Reply

@#63 ... What do you expect from a party of bullies?
Disinformation and abuse of others. ...

I do not disagree.

#65 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 08:16 PM | Reply

You haven't read much by him if you don't see his posts mirror the conspiracy theories on QAnon.

#66 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-15 08:20 PM | Reply

@#66 ... You haven't read much by him if you don't see his posts mirror the conspiracy theories on QAnon. ...

Oh, I have.

But I have also read other posts by it that are equally bizarre, but not politically bizarre, as you note about the QAnon ones.

So, it seems to post bizarre posts about different topics.

#67 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 08:28 PM | Reply

The left absolutely thrives on it to the point of ------ any time they think they find some whacko who did something horrible they think they can tie to their political foes.

Just to be clear, are you saying that trans people are the right's "political foes?"

#68 | Posted by JOE at 2024-02-16 07:06 AM | Reply