Another day, another mass shooting in the United States.
This time the horror took place at a bank building in Louisville, Kentucky, with CNN reporting that the shooter was a 23-year-old former bank employee.
A 23-year-old bank employee opened fire at his workplace in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday morning and livestreamed the attack that left four dead and nine others wounded, authorities said.
The gunman was identified as Connor Sturgeon, an employee at Old National Bank, according to interim Louisville Metro Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel. He was killed by police after a shootout with authorities.
The four victims, all between the ages of 40 and 64, were identified as Joshua Barrick, Juliana Farmer, Tommy Elliott and James Tutt, the chief said. Gov. Andy Beshear said Elliott, a senior vice president at the bank, was one of his closest friends.
The reason for the shooting remains unclear, but conservatives who cannot fathom that the ease of acquiring guns in the United States might deserve a closer look already have a theory: Pronouns.
Shortly after the shooting hit the news and Sturgeon was identified, right-wingers on social media began noting that on his LinkedIn profile, the shooter had identified as he/him, which is not the least bit unusual in today’s business world.
But to hear the gun fetishists tell it, Sturgeon’s use of pronouns is the reason he went on a shooting spree. Here’s a sampling:
“Conor Sturgeon is allegedly the active shooter in Louisville, Kentucky. Another Democrat with creepy pronouns in his bio. I wonder if Joe Biden will blame Republicans? Absolutely yes, he will. We should use NASA and send most Democrats to space to save America. “
“Yet another Democrat shooter. Louisville mass shooter has been identified as Connor Sturgeon, who used the pronouns He/Him. Want to stop gun violence? STOP SELLING GUNS TO DEMOCRATS!”
“So once again Another Democrat with pronouns in their bio decided to shoot innocent people in Louisville, Kentucky. Color me surprised!”
“The Louisville mass bank shooter had pronouns in his LinkedIn bio. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.”
As usual, it’s never the guns. It’s always the pronouns, or the sexual orientation, or maybe that the shooter was an agnostic with tattoos and green hair. Anything to avoid the real debate this country needs to have about guns and how damn it easy for anyone to get one (or several) and start shooting.
But yeah, let’s blame the fucking pronouns. That’ll sure solve the problem.
