Minnesota Catholic School Leader Warned Tim Walz Of ‘Urgent And Critical’ Need To Secure Schools

Daily Wire ^ | Aug 27, 2025 | Mary Margaret Olohan

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"The latest school shooting at a nonpublic Christian school in Tennessee sadly confirms what we already know – our schools are under attack."

Two years before a shooter opened fire on students attending daily mass in Minneapolis, the leaders of independent and Catholic schools in Minnesota begged Democrat Governor Tim Walz for help securing their schools, according to a 2023 letter reviewed by The Daily Wire. The funding was never authorized.

In a letter dated April 14, 2023 that specifically addressed “school safety in nonpublic schools,” Tim Benz, the president of MINNDEPENDENT and Jason Adkins, the executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, stressed an “urgent and critical need in Minnesota to make sure our schools are secure and safe” in light of “recent, and continuing attacks, on our schools in this country and in our state.”

The letter says there are about 72,000 students in Independent, Catholic, Jewish, Christian and Muslim nonpublic schools within the state of Minnesota. It came just weeks after the shooting at a Christian school in Tennessee, which was also carried about by a transgender-identifying individual in their twenties.

“The latest school shooting at a nonpublic Christian school in Tennessee sadly confirms what we already know – our schools are under attack,” Benz and Adkins wrote. “In Minnesota, nonpublic schools, particularly our Jewish and Muslim schools, have experienced increased levels of threats, all of which we must take very seriously.”

“The tragedy from last week at Covenant School must never happen in Minnesota or in our country again,” they wrote. “We need to ensure that all [our] schools have the resources to respond to and prevent these attacks from happening to our schools.”

The leaders specifically called on Waltz for assistance in making sure not only that the Minnesota Legislature enacts his budget recommendation of $50 million...

[BigFreakinToad]

along with there spawn.

[1Old Pro]

walz now stepping up to the mic on FOX news.

[Spok]

While we protect politicians, banks, airports and celebrities with armed guards, why do we pretend to protect our children with signs that say “Gun Free Zone”? How could anyone even imagine that’s a good idea?

[OKSooner]

Truth.

Thank you.

[dragnet2]

It's bull shit. Every school likely has parents or better yet, grandparents/former military veterans who could easily protect these school. And cheaply! Give them 2 weeks training and they're good to go! Pay them $300 per week for their time. Obviously these schools don't give 2 sh*ts about the kids safety otherwise they'd initiate programs like this across the U.S.

Oh I forgot, these government run schools don't trust the family members of the students!

[Biblebelter]

Receipts?

I am sure there are more receipts showing it takes a village of WOKE pols to raise a trans shooter.

Will the Republican wing of the uniparty speak out against the trans agenda?

Trump is ON THE RECORD.

His commercials campaigned on it.

And his executive orders delivered on it.

There is a thread on FR showing the faces of all recent trans shooters.

There are TOO many to not see a pattern.

[dragnet2]

[JME_FAN]

Governor Timpon was more concerned with securing Tampon dispenser in boy’s bathrooms.

[ducttape45]

I hope the voters will remember Walz’s complicity in this henious crime and either recall him or vote him out in the next election. I’m convinced it’s because of his idiotic liberal policies that this was allowed to happen.

[HIDEK6]

Did those Catholics vote DFL?

[madison10]

That isn’t an answer to the question.

[shelterguy]

So I get a failing grade today? Moms gonna be pissed.

[madison10]

😄

[BarbM]

Did those Catholics vote DFL?
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No matter how they voted, the ballot was counted as DFL./s

I suspect most of the moms voted DFL.

[arthurus]

Kids getting shot is entertainment for the Minnesota masses? Putting uniformed armed guards in schools which suggestion I see often Is just setting up a guard with a Shoot Me First sign on himn. Metal detectors in every school is a pretty expensive proposition. Adding locked doors does make public schools look like the day prisons they are. My grandkids are homeschooled and there is a large bucket of worries missing. Parents who actually care for their children more than as fashion accessories have already pulled their kids from public schools.

[TBP]

Why would Walz want to do that? It might undermine the opportunity to ram his authoritarian agenda down our throats. Fewer dead kids means fewer tragedies to exploit for power and money.