As school has begun across the country, there have been numerous hoax calls about active shooters on campus. That’s a sick way to get entertainment, but sicker still is when the shooting is real, as it was yesterday morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Tragically, two children — ages eight and 10 — lost their lives when the assailant opened fire through church windows as the students were assembled for mass and prayer. Seventeen others, mostly students, were wounded, some critically.
After his assault, the murderer took his own life. And, like the murderous psychopath at The Covenant School in Nashville two years ago, this killer identified as “transgender.”
For the media outlets that use feminine or “they/them” pronouns or the “trans woman” moniker for this 23-year-old man, shame on you for indulging his twisted fantasy even after he inflicted demonic horror upon young students, teachers, and families.
Given that the assault occurred while the victims were praying, prayer became a big part of this story. “Please lift up these families and these children in prayer and surround them and each other with your love during this difficult time,” read a statement from the Church of the Annunciation. Countless others offered prayers via social media posts.
For Democrats whose only solution to such crimes is to put up worthless “gun-free zone” signs and infringe on the Second Amendment rights of the law-abiding, however, prayers were not only not enough but also offensive.
“Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now,” railed Democrat Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey at a press conference at the school. “These kids were literally praying.” Clearly, he’s a man who doesn’t understand prayer. It’s not a magic incantation or body armor, but to frame prayer as worthless is a heartless attack on the victims.
Former Joe Biden press secretary and now MSNBC host Jen Psaki expressed similar contempt for the faithful. “Prayer is not freaking enough,” she posted. “Prayers [sic] does not end school shootings. prayers [sic] do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers.”
Besides being anti-Christian, this attack is a straw man. Conservatives have never said prayers are the only thing that can be done, but Democrats don’t like solutions such as armed guards or teachers.
Worse, these rants against prayer sound eerily similar to the message on the killer’s gun: “Where is your God?”
The assailant just met Him, and people like Frey and Psaki might want to reconsider their own lives before their just and loving Creator.
Predictably, several Democrats made their usual perfunctory calls for “sensible gun control.” According to Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, we have to “grapple with the fact that we have too many guns out there right now.”
Well, what has the state’s governor, erstwhile vice presidential candidate Tim “Stolen Valor” Walz, done about guns? His state was ground zero for the George Floyd riots and ensuing violent crime wave in 2020, and it has been the site of other political violence since then.
First, Walz deceives about firearm capabilities by claiming “weapons of war” have no business in the hands of civilians, and, as a National Guard veteran, he ought to know. Indeed, he should know that select-fire weapons carried by the military are functionally different from semiautomatic rifles owned by private individuals. Calling it an “assault weapon” because it has a pistol grip, barrel shroud, or collapsible stock is a lie.
As governor, Walz signed “historic” gun control legislation that implemented universal background checks and red flag orders. The Minneapolis assailant wasn’t stopped by either. Meanwhile, Walz ignored pleas from independent and Catholic schools for security funding.
Walz did, however, bizarrely say last year, “I’ve become friends with school shooters.”
Walz also made Minnesota a “trans refuge” state — a “sanctuary” of sorts for kids to undergo gender mutilation. Earlier this week at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meetings, he bragged, “Minnesota ranks the highest per-capita for being a safe haven for transgender individuals.” His policies were deadly for Catholic kids, and they currently sacrifice other children on the altar of the Left’s sex cult.
In fact, though the Leftmedia is largely still searching for a motive, the “trans” killer was very explicit about his goals in journals and a “manifesto” video.
He graduated from eighth grade at the Annunciation Catholic School in 2017, and his mother worked there until 2021. Resentment was clearly a factor, as he declared that killing “children of innocent civilians” would bring him “the most joy.” He idolized other school shooters, ranted about his own mental anguish, and expressed hatred for Christians, “filthy Zionist Jews,” and Donald Trump. He had a gun target bearing the face of Jesus.
“Extra Thicc Jew Gas,” “Burn Israel,” and “6 Million Wasn’t Enough” were scrawled on his guns and magazines. ABC News reported that “the name of President Trump” was also written on his gun — except the reporter was referring to the phrase “Kill Donald Trump.” It’s despicable disinformation to deliberately leave out the word “kill,” as if to imply the murderer liked Trump.
Appropriately, FBI Director Kash Patel noted, “The FBI is investigating this shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics.”
The killer, with his mother’s help because he was a minor at the time, legally changed his name in 2019. This man should have failed any background check based on his obvious mental illness. Frankly, the same is true of any man who thinks he’s a woman, or a woman who thinks she’s a man. But Democrats detest such honesty.
Instead of forthrightly grappling with the problem, Mayor Frey accused his opponents of bigotry: “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity.” I’m not villainizing people suffering from gender pathology to accurately point to the sex of their birth, or to argue that saying otherwise is a terrible and dehumanizing lie.
The killer was all over the map on this anyway. “I don’t want to dress girly all the time but I guess sometimes I really like it,” he wrote not long ago. “I know I am not a woman but I definitely don’t feel like a man.”
It’s a horrifically deadly development that so-called “trans” individuals are increasingly becoming violent. There will be other copycats after this because when people are sucked into the deranged sex cult, terrible things happen. Men and women made in the image of God should not be so misled or mistreated. We should all pray and work against such a deadly ideology.
