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No. 162

Topic: crime-data

No data show trans people commit more violence; Tuberville misnamed two shooters

Verdicts: 1 True, 2 Mostly True, 1 Mixed, 3 Unproven, 3 Misleading, 3 False

Two of the five attackers Tuberville named were not trans. Trans people are underrepresented among mass shooters, and no US data can measure their overall crime rate.

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