Suspected White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner shooter, Cole Tomas Allen, urged his Bluesky followers to purchase guns over fears the Trump administration might ban so-called transgender individuals from owning firearms.<\/p>\n
A Bluesky account suspected to be Allen\u2019s posted<\/a> a CNN article, \u201cTrump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say<\/a>,\u201d with the caption \u201cBest time to buy a gun was The September 2025 CNN article discussed a mass shooting that took place at a Minneapolis Catholic church, carried out by a \u201c23-year-old transgender woman.\u201d The article says the Department of Justice was \u201cweighing proposals to limit transgender people\u2019s right to possess firearms\u201d and framed this potential move as \u201ca dramatic escalation of the Trump administration\u2019s fight against the rights of transgender Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n There have been several recent high-profile shootings in the past several years with ties<\/a> to transgenderism<\/a>, leading the Trump administration to examine the relationship<\/a> between transgenderism and violence.<\/p>\n Allen obtained a bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering from the prestigious California Institute of Technology in 2017, where he participated in the school\u2019s Christian Fellowship Program, according to his LinkedIn profile<\/a> and social media posts. December 2016 Facebook posts from Caltech Christian Fellowship show Allen smiling and attending an event held by the school\u2019s Christian club.<\/p>\n Evangelical Christians believe there are only two sexes and openly oppose transgenderism<\/a>. Allen wrote an anti-Trump manifesto that mocked Christianity and was sent to a family member minutes before the shooting, according to reporting from the New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Allen mocked the Christian idea of \u201cturning the other cheek\u201d in the manifesto writing, \u201cTurning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I\u2019m not the person raped in a detention camp. I\u2019m not the fisherman executed without trial,\u201d according to reporting from The New York Post.<\/p>\n \u201cTurning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor\u2019s crimes,\u201d Allen wrote in a manifesto provided to U.S. officials, according to reporting from The New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n