Trans-identifying degenerates have carried out or attempted to carry out a number of mass shootings in recent years.
For instance, in March 2023, a trans-identifying woman stormed into a Presbyterian elementary school in Nashville and murdered three 9-year-old children — Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs — and three adults — teacher Cynthia Peak, custodian Mike Hill, and head of school Katherine Koonce.
'She identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.'
In April 2024, a male-identifying woman planned to shoot up an elementary school and a high school in Maryland but was thankfully stopped in time by police, then later convicted.
The liberal media has consistently used used the preferred pronouns of these and other murderous trans-identifying criminals in an apparent effort to coddle the offenders and to placate LGBT activists.
A trans-identifying man formerly known as Robert Westman shot up a Catholic church full of children in Minneapolis on Wednesday, injuring 17 and killing two kids, ages 8 and 10. After the shooter was revealed to be a so-called "transgender," the media once again feverishly rushed to accommodate and reinforce this delusion.
CNN talking head Jake Tapper noted on his show that the gunman's mother "applied to change her child's name in 2019. It was at one point Robert Paul Westman."
"But since she identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification, was underage, it's now Robin Westman," continued Tapper, faithfully employing the killer's preferred pronouns.
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While Newsweek initially referred to the shooter using male pronouns, it updated its article on the gunman, referring to him as a "her." The Daily Mail went the distance, using both she and her pronouns in reference to the dead man.
'If you've noticed, they are misgendering and dead-naming the murderer.'
In a section that has since been scrubbed, the Washington Post referred to the shooter as Mary Westman's "daughter" — a term the publication Le Monde also used in reference to Mary Westman's murderous son — and called the gunman a "she." The Post later added that the gunman was "assigned male at birth."
While the Independent dared to call Westman a "he," it similarly referred to the trans-identified shooter as a plurality, using the possessive pronoun "their."
The New Republic and the Guardian both opted to avoid male pronouns although the former noted that Westman "shot themself in the back of the church" and the latter stated that Westman "killed themself."
When several liberal publications correctly referred to the trans-identifying female shooter behind the Covenant School massacre in 2023 as a woman, James Kirchick, a contributing writer to the New York Times, aped out, telling Bill Maher, "If you've noticed, they are misgendering and dead-naming the murderer. Right? They are referring to the murderer by their given name, not their chosen name ... referring to her as a woman, as opposed to what her identity apparently was — was a man."
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears weighed in, telling Maher and the liberal writer, "Hang on, you know what: This person murdered six people. I don't really care who you say you are. You murdered six people, and three of them were children."
"You don't get a say," continued Earle-Sears, noting that's a forgone conclusion in this case because "she's dead now, so you know."
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On Thursday, August 21, at 4:30 p.m., my wife, my youngest daughter, and I stood in the soft light of an overcast day at Villanova University’s welcome Mass. She had earned the right to call herself a freshman. The class of 2029 also carries a distinction: the first freshman class to attend the alma mater of a pope.
Pride did not fully prepare us for what came next.
Everything is an education. Courage, the first of the virtues, does not mean reckless bravado. I learned something about it.
At 4:34 p.m., phones around us buzzed with a NOVA Alert:
ACTIVE SHOOTER Incident Warning
ACTIVE SHOOTER on VU campus. Move to secure location.
Lock/Barricade doors. More info to follow.
My daughter showed my wife the text. As they puzzled over it, the crowd shifted. Chairs toppled with a sound like rain. I briefly imagined a cloudburst pushing people indoors.
The murmur swelled into a surge. People dove to the ground. I had not yet seen the alert. Gunfire? I heard none. A vehicle attack? Lightning? A tornado? A wild animal?
Ancient Greeks saw their gods and the gods of their enemies amid the terror of battlefields. In that instant, the mind supplied its own agents of terror in the convulsing crowd at Villanova.
“Dad, run!” my daughter shouted. She and my wife had already bolted. I jogged after them, but the walkways churned like rapids and they disappeared in the current. I moved into the open at Connelly Plaza to search. Moments later, my daughter called from inside the Connelly Center, urging me to stop standing outside and get to cover. I geolocated my wife’s phone; it registered inside Dougherty Hall.
A heavily armed officer and several others strode past, asking for the library. I pointed as best I could. Someone inside Dougherty waved me in with insistence.
Inside, I found my wife’s purse and phone. Some thoughtful person had picked it up and brought it in. She soon called from a stranger’s phone to say she had reached the Ithan parking garage a little further off. I took up a post with four or five other dads at the glass entrance to Dougherty and waited for the all-clear. It came an hour and a half later.
Everything is an education. Courage, the first of the virtues, does not mean reckless bravado. I learned something about it that afternoon.
Panic spreads faster than any bullet. Faces around me looked as if they had witnessed a threat firsthand. The truth is that most had only read the alert and then seen fear and panic in other people’s faces. That fear became the source of multiplying bad information.
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“Tune our hearts to brave music,” St. Augustine prayed. Villanova’s staff did exactly that. They acted with calm and helped people reach safety. Even so, the hoaxer exposed vulnerabilities. If you have not witnessed immediate danger, move safely and deliberately to a secure place. Don’t fuel the stampede.
Augustine may have also said, “Hope has two beautiful daughters: anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain as they are.” The hoaxing continued that weekend — one call to the University of South Carolina, another to Villanova. The intent is obvious: inflict physical and psychological harm by weaponizing the consensus response — run and shelter in place.
The threat, paradoxically, comes from hijacking the security system by crying wolf. The remedy must make that hijacking harder, verify and communicate information faster, and reduce harm when the system gets abused. That requires careful thinking about methods and messages — and about courage.
Courage steadies the hands that send the alerts, guides parents and students to act with discipline, and keeps us from trampling one another in a fog of rumor. I watched it in real time from Dougherty Hall. It will be needed again.
New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz indicated that the shooter who opened fire on a Minneapolis Catholic church full of children Wednesday — injuring 17 and killing two kids, ages 8 and 10 — was named Robin Westman.
Two sources familiar with the investigation told the Minnesota Star Tribune that Westman, 23, is indeed the suspected shooter.
'I regret everything. I didn't ask for life. You didn't ask for death.'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday confirmed on X that that the shooter was "claiming to be transgender."
Indeed, conservative influencer Harrison Krank obtained an alleged court document indicating that Westman went through a name change in 2020 — going from Robert to Robin. The document notes further that Westman "identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification."
KARE-TV noted that "the shooter was 23-year-old Robin, formerly Robert, Westman."
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Law enforcement sources said Westman grew up in Richfield and that Westman's mother was an employee at Annunciation School, KARE reported, adding that records show Westman's mother retired from the school in 2021.
The station added it's also believed that Westman attended the school for at least one year and that Westman had visited the school in the last week, while teachers prepared for the upcoming school year.
Westman allegedly shared a video to YouTube ahead of the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church.
The clip shows an image of Jesus Christ inside a shooting target. In addition, in the video the alleged shooter giggles effetely while showcasing his arsenal on a bed — a rifle, a shotgun, a revolver, and a handgun — and displaying statements on his weapons that include, "Where is your God?"; "Kill Donald Trump"; "I'm the woker, baby ... Why so queerious?"; "pain and hate"; "f**k you, eat s**t faggot"; "Get clapped." At least three names also are written on one of the rifle magazines.
While playing with rifle rounds, the alleged shooter states in the video, "I'm sorry to my family, but that's it — that's the only people I'm sorry to. F**k those kids."
At one point in the video, the alleged shooter also states, "I regret everything. I didn't ask for life. You didn't ask for death."
The alleged shooter also shows an apparent manifesto in the video while stating, "I hope you can read that." The apparent manifesto makes an appearance in another video and appears to have been written largely using the Cyrillic or Russian alphabet. Markowicz identified some of the writing on the weaponry as Russian, including a statement that is translated as, "I'm a terrorist."
While leafing through the apparent manifesto in the second video, the alleged shooter pauses on a drawing of what appears to be the interior of Annunciation Catholic Church — then stabs the page with a knife. He concludes the video by stating, "That's all I do: I fall, I break, and I die."
According to police, the shooter barricaded the church doors from the outside with 2x4s and began opening fire into the church through the windows from the outside. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara called the shooter a "coward."
Police said the shooter opened fire with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol and ultimately shot himself to death in the back of the church.
Minneapolis Police on Wednesday didn't immediately reply to Blaze News' request for confirmation of the shooter's reported identity as Robin/Robert Westman nor of the accuracy of the report that the YouTube video is of Westman.
The tragedy appears to parallel the 2023 Covenant School massacre in numerous ways.
A 28-year-old woman stormed into a Presbyterian elementary school in Nashville on March 27 that year armed with a rifle, a pistol, and a handgun. The trans-identifying shooter proceeded to murder three 9-year-old children — Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs — along with three adults — teacher Cynthia Peak, custodian Mike Hill, and head of school Katherine Koonce.
The shooter's manifesto was replete with criticisms of religion, and she similarly expressed a revulsion for innocence.
"Kill those kids!!! Those crackers Going to private fancy schools with those fancy khakis and sports backpacks with their daddies mustangs and convertibles. F**k you little s**ts," wrote the female shooter. "I wish to shoot your weak ass d**ks with your mop yellow hair, wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little f****ts with your white privileges. F**k you f****ts."
Editor's note: This story was edited after publication to include a statement from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
This is a developing story.
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Yesterday, in yet another act of mass violence, a gunman identified as Shane Tamura killed four people, including an NYPD officer, and critically wounded another in a shooting at 345 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan before taking his own life.
“You're going to hear all kinds of things,” says Glenn Beck. “You're going to hear ‘more gun control,’ yada yada yada. But will we ever talk about the real issues here?”
The real issue, he explains, is not guns but mental illness, which Tamura had a “history of.”
According to a handwritten note found in his pocket, Tamura targeted the office building on Park Avenue specifically because the National Football League headquarters are located there.
“He wanted to express his grievance with the NFL,” says Glenn.
Tamura claimed to suffer from chronic traumatic encephalopathy — a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head trauma.
Thus far, police have found no evidence to confirm whether Tamura had CTE, but it was confirmed that he played football in high school.
In his suicide note, Tamura requested that his brain be studied.
“This is a tale of insanity,” sighs Glenn. It’s “a tale of evil, a tale of broken minds, a tale of innocence destroyed in the place where it was least expected, a skyscraper in New York turned slaughterhouse and a Monday night that turned to mourning.”
And it’s no isolated tale. Around the same time as Tamura’s murderous rampage, another gunman killed three people and injured three others in the valet area and parking lot of the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada. The suspect was shot by police and taken into custody in critical condition.
While “no motive has been determined so far,” it’s clear that “we have an epidemic of mental illness in this country,” says Glenn.
Just a couple of months ago, Glenn experienced this personally when he and his wife were in Manhattan.
“A black guy on a bike rides towards us, and he begins to circle us on his bike on the sidewalk … all the while looking me right directly in the eye and pointing with one hand, the other on the handlebars, saying, ‘I'm going to kill me a white man today,”’ Glenn recalls.
“Luckily, he noticed that I had two armed security people behind us. He recognized maybe they might kill a black man on a bike today. He rode away. The man was clearly unstable.”
“We have become a society that has gone into madness. … How much more madness will it take before we stand up and say enough is enough?”
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A gunman stormed into a Manhattan office building on Monday afternoon and fatally shot four people, including New York Police Officer Didarul Islam.
New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch identified the shooter as 27-year-old Shane Tamura of Las Vegas and indicated that he had a "documented mental health history."
Tamura, who supposedly suffered from a degenerative brain disease caused by head trauma, had allegedly driven from Nevada to New York — passing through Colorado on Saturday, then Nebraska and Iowa on Sunday — and had only been in the city for a few hours before he began shooting.
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Surveillance footage captured the shooter exiting a double-parked BMW just before 6:30 p.m., then heading toward 345 Park Avenue, where he shot Islam, who was working a corporate security detail, as well as a woman who desperately tried to take cover.
Tisch indicated that on his way to the elevator bank, the shooter shot a guard at a security desk, then gunned down another man in the lobby. The shooter then rode the elevator to the 33rd-floor offices of Rudin Management, the company that owns the building, where he murdered another victim, then killed himself.
Investigators found a rifle case, multiple magazines, ammunition, prescription medication, and a loaded revolver inside the gunman's vehicle, which was left at the scene.
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Police were initially mum about potential motives on Monday, prompting a great deal of speculation, given that the skyscraper where the shootings took place houses the headquarters of the National Football League and several financial institutions, including the investment firm Blackstone and the accounting and financial advisory firm KPMG.
Mayor Eric Adams said in a Tuesday interview that the gunman was trying to shoot up the NFL offices but took the wrong elevator.
Sources told the New York Post that the gunman was carrying a note in his pocket expressing grievances against the NFL. In the note, Tamura allegedly referred to the former Pittsburgh Steeler player Terry Long's suicide following his CTE diagnosis and indicated that he, too, suffered from CTE.
The shooter reportedly played high school football in Southern California.
"You never would have thought violence was something you'd associate with him," former classmate Caleb Clarke told NBC News. "Everything he said was a joke."
This is a developing story.
Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!More than 50 people were shot — eight of whom were killed — in Chicago during a bloody Fourth of July weekend, according to a report. However, the Democratic mayor of Chicago seemed more focused on LGBTQ Pride events and how safe the city is for LGBTQ+ tourists.
At least 55 people were shot, eight fatally, in the city between midnight on Thursday and Sunday night, according to WLS-TV.
'Why don’t you step away from this s**t and fix the crime in your city, you POS.'
The news outlet noted that the carnage over the holiday weekend actually was dramatically less severe than last year.
In 2024 over the Fourth of July weekend, 105 people were shot, 22 of whom were killed, WLS-TV previously reported.
Included in this year's holiday weekend violence, two gunmen opened fire on a group of people, seven of whom were wounded, according to Block Club Chicago.
A reported drive-by shooting in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood early Saturday morning left four wounded — three critically.
According to city data, there have been 206 homicides in Chicago this year, which actually is 31% less than in 2024. There have been 171 fatal shootings so far this year in the city.
However, the alarming figures from the Fourth of July weekend do not include the bloodbath that occurred just a day beforehand.
Just after 11 p.m. last Wednesday, a mass shooting erupted near a restaurant in the River North neighborhood.
Citing the Chicago Police Department, WFTS-TV reported that a dark-colored vehicle drove by the restaurant and shots were fired into a crowd of people. The driver then fled the crime scene.
A community activist trying to quell violence was in the area during the shooting and told the news outlet that the victims were shot as they exited an event hosted by a local rapper.
Police said 18 people were shot and four were killed in the mass shooting. Three of the victims were rushed to local hospitals in critical condition, and another person was in serious condition, according to police. Ten victims were transported to hospitals in good to fair condition.
The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office identified the deceased as 23-year-old Devonte Terrell Williamson, 25-year-old Leon Andrew Henry, 26-year-old Aviance King, and 27-year-old Taylor Walker.
Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling stated, "They opened fire on a crowd. They didn't care who was struck, and in a matter of seconds, they were able to shoot 18 people."
Snelling noted that the appearance by the rapper was not on the police department's radar because it was a private event.
Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward of up to $10,000 for information that leads to the arrest of the suspects in the deadly mass shooting. Those with any information on the fatal shooting should contact 1-800-535-STOP.
The official Facebook account for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a Democrat, said of last Wednesday's mass shooting: "We will not rest until the perpetrators of this mass shooting are brought to justice. Chicago, if you have any information at all about this tragic incident, now is the time to come forward."
Johnson's statement added, "Our hearts are with the families of the victims of last night's tragic mass shootings. Acts of cowardice like these shootings are unacceptable, and we won't stand for them as a city."
While Johnson's Facebook account did not mention the Fourth of July weekend violence, the mayor on Tuesday did claim that Chicago was "ranked the safest destination for LGBTQ+ tourists in America." Johnson added that he "spent a day ... speaking with residents, community leaders, and local business owners about what our administration is doing to support public safety, LGBTQ+ tourism and civil rights, and small businesses."
One commenter under the post replied, "Is this a joke[?] Just look at what happened there 4th of July weekend."
Johnson's official profile on the X social media platform also did not mention the Fourth of July weekend shootings — but on Monday the mayor did highlight an LGBTQ Pride festival.
"Pride South Side's All American Pride festival last Saturday was a joyous celebration of [our] unstoppable spirit that defines the South Side and the city's diverse LGBTQ+ community," Johnson's X page stated.
That got under the skin of more than a few commenters. One replied that Johnson was "still silent" about those shot "over the holiday weekend. So much blood on your hands." Others were more direct.
The mayor's office did not mention the recent bloody violence on its official website.
Blaze News requested a comment from Johnson's office but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
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