He was setting up for the funniest punchline of all time

He was trying to deflect to racism when someone called out that his idea that trans people are a danger on the basis of "too many" shooters being trans is ridiculous.

I just assume he wanted to drop the dogwhistle for the hogs and for the bait, analyzing it from the lense of a formal debate will lead you nowhere.

He was about to get owned in the marketplace of ideas. He regularly "lost" debates to college students at these events, and these sort of non-sequiters were a tactic he used to throw off opponents when they were making a good point.

I suppose he was going to make some sort of argument like "Most mass shootings are done by black people, but we don't count them we just call them gang violence" but instead he got Proven Wrong

He was too used to it being something they could edit before going out so it would either not make the cut or changed enough to make him still come out on top.

That and he had absolutely no convictions other than getting talking points out