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  • Minneapolis shooting reignites debate over gun control and prayer

    08/30/2025 5:48:19 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 33 replies
    AP ^ | 8/30/25 | PETER SMITH and TIFFANY STANLEY
    The debate is not just about the power of prayer. In the United States — with both a large religious population and the most mass shootings in the world — it’s also a polarized debate about gun control. In other words, the episode set off rhetorical skirmishes along two of the biggest dividing lines in America’s cultural and political wars: God and guns. (That doesn’t even count the scrutiny over the motives and gender identity of the shooter, who died by suicide after the attack.) Frey tapped into the principle of “Tikkun Olam,” in his Jewish faith, which speaks about...
  • Another Trans Person Arrested for Killing, One Day After Minneapolis Mass Shooting

    08/29/2025 3:07:16 PM PDT · by Morgana · 62 replies
    Ngo Comment ^ | August 28, 2025 | Andy Ngo
    <p>Editor’s note: This report has been updated with more information.</p><p>Just one day after the trans mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and school in Minneapolis by Robert “Robin” Westman, another trans-identifying individual has been arrested on suspicion of murder in the U.S.</p>
  • Moment cops descend on condo of Minneapolis school shooter's mom after she refused to cooperate with investigation as eerie previous police visits to her home emerges

    08/29/2025 11:58:22 AM PDT · by Morgana · 41 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | August 29, 2025 | Melissa Koenig
    Federal agents descended on a Florida condo belonging to the mother of transgender school shooter Robin Westman after she refused to cooperate with authorities investigating the deadly attack. Plainclothes FBI agents could be seen in video footage arriving at Mary Grace Westman's Naples, Florida condominium and banging on the door as the windows and shades were shuttered. When they received no answer at the front door, the agents scurried to the backdoor - but had no success there either, WINK News reports. The feds were apparently not the only ones looking to speak with Westman on Wednesday, in the hours...
  • Moment feds descend on Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman mom’s Florida home before she hires criminal defense attorney

    08/29/2025 8:25:52 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 67 replies
    NY Post ^ | August 29, 2025 | Nicholas McEntyre
    Federal agents were seen descending on a Florida apartment in the hunt for Minnesota mass shooter Robin Westman’s mom, who has retained a powerful attorney while refusing to talk to cops. Several agents were first filmed arriving at Mary Grace Westman’s apartment in East Naples on Wednesday, hours after her son shot up the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, killing two children and injuring 18 others during the first Mass of their school year. Casually dressed and wearing sunglasses and holding binders, they were filmed by WINK NEWS as they walked up and banged on the mom’s front door, calling...
  • Stephen King Says ‘Trans Is Not the Problem’ After Transgender Shoots Up Catholic School: ‘He Had a Gun’

    08/29/2025 5:36:11 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 88 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 8/28/25 | AWR Hawkins
    Author, Hollywood producer, and gun control proponent Stephen King reacted to the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting by contending that blame should be focused on guns rather than whether the shooter was transgender. King attempted to make his point via two posts to X, the first of which appears to have been an attempt to tamper down Elon Musk’s contention that the alleged shooter’s trans status supports the argument that “there is a clear pattern here”: Minutes after that first post, King followed up with a post in which he was countering Matt Walsh’s criticism of transgederism: It should be noted...
  • Minnesota bishop rebukes Dem mayor for dismissing prayer following deadly Catholic school attack

    08/29/2025 4:47:11 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 25 replies
    Fox News ^ | 8/29/25 | Kristine Parks
    Minnesota Bishop Robert Barron sharply criticized Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for dismissing calls for prayer following Wednesday’s deadly Catholic school shooting, calling the mayor’s remarks "completely asinine." "Catholics don’t think that prayer magically protects them from all suffering. After all, Jesus prayed fervently from the cross on which he was dying," Barron told Fox News Digital. The shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis killed two children and injured 18 other people during a morning Mass, according to police. FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed the bureau is investigating the attack as both a possible act of domestic terrorism and a...
  • Devout Christians slaughtered in Minneapolis … you know the rest

    08/28/2025 5:54:15 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 5 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 08/28/2025 | Eric Utter
    Evil defeated tolerance again yesterday, in George Floyd’s Minneapolis.Just days after the Democratic National Committee held its “Summer Camp” in the Minneapple, with a speaker remarking that most Americans don’t care about migrant crime or carjackings, a “trans” person shot and killed two children and injured 17 other people at a Catholic school in the city. 23-year-old Robert Westman, who changed his name to “Robin” Westman six years ago because he identified as a female, eventually turned a gun on himself after the extended bout of senseless carnage.Westman (wonder why he didn’t change his last name, too) reportedly had a...
  • DEVELOPING: Mother of Transgender Minneapolis Mass Shooter Robin Westman Appears to Have Fled and Is Not Cooperating with Police

    08/28/2025 5:55:03 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 56 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | August 28, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    **Update at bottom of article** Mary Grace Westman has retained a criminal defense attorney. Mary Grace Westman, the mother of the transgender Minneapolis mass shooter and child killer Robin Westman appears to have fled and is not cooperating with police.
  • WATCH: CNN’s Jake Tapper Wants People to Use ‘She/Her’ Pronouns for Transgender Gunman Who Murdered Catholic Children

    08/28/2025 4:15:00 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 65 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | August 28, 2025 | Cassandra MacDonald
    In the wake of the horrific mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where two young children were gunned down and 17 others wounded during a school Mass, CNN anchor Jake Tapper has sparked outrage by focusing on the “correct” pronouns for the deranged transgender shooter. The depraved male shooter was born Robert Paul Westman but legally changed his name to Robin M. Westman in 2020 and began identifying as “female.” On Wednesday, he opened fire from outside the church windows, targeting helpless children and parishioners inside. Westman, 23, later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities recovered a...
  • After Minneapolis mass shooting, two Minnesota leaders push for gun reform

    08/28/2025 1:52:57 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 48 replies
    NPR ^ | 8/28/25 | Destinee Adams , Michel Martin , Leila Fadel
    Two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed in a mass shooting on Wednesday morning while gathered for Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school to mark the first week of classes. Seventeen others were wounded, including 14 children between the ages of 6 and 15. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara identified 23-year-old Robin Westman as the shooter. Westman was later found dead in the back of the church from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities are still investigating her motive. The shooting is renewing debates over America's gun laws. And two of Minnesota's prominent leaders, both Democrats, are seizing the moment...
  • Deadly Minnesota school shooting reflects tragic cost of a disordered society — including Dem leaders who lost the plot

    08/28/2025 5:22:36 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 43 replies
    NY Post ^ | 27 Aug, 2025 | Miranda Devine
    If ever there were an example of the perils of the Democrat approach to crime and social disorder, it is Minneapolis, ground zero of the George Floyd/defund-the-police movement that roiled the country five years ago, and a “sanctuary transgender state.” The deadly mass shooting of small children at Mass at Annunciation Catholic School Wednesday brings home the tragic cost of a disordered society, where evil rampages unchecked and those who would protect the vulnerable are handcuffed and pushed away. It’s too early to say exactly how, or even if, the tragedy could have been prevented. Yet Minnesota Democrats already have...
  • Jen Psaki Tells Christians She’s Had ‘Enough’ With Their Prayers After Catholic School Shooting

    08/28/2025 5:51:33 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 92 replies
    Daily Caller via IJR ^ | 8/27/25 | Daily Caller News Foundation
    Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki shamed Christians on Wednesday who were praying for those afflicted in the Annunciation Catholic School shooting. A now-deceased gunman fatally shot two children ages eight and ten and injured 17 others by opening fire through the window of the Catholic Church during a Mass service. Following the tragedy, Psaki wrote on X that “prayers” are “not freaking enough” to stop school shootings. “Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. [P]rayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough...
  • Jesse Watters: The Trans Clan Has A Militant Wing, Fake Compassion Is Getting People Killed (Video)

    08/28/2025 7:21:07 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 21 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | 08 27 2025 | Ian Schwartz
    JESSE WATTERS: A suicidal transgender who hates Trump's Christians and Jews shoots up kids at a Catholic school and the media wants to take away your handgun. So how are we supposed to protect ourselves from trans shooters? The media is bad at pattern recognition. We aren't. Just two years ago, another trans 20-something walked into a Christian school in Nashville with a rifle and shot three kids and three adults. They buried the manifesto and locked down the case. We've seen trans shootings in Colorado and in Maryland. They even shot up an ICE facility in Texas. And it...
  • Major New Details Emerge Regarding Trans Minneapolis Catholic School Shooter’s Manifesto Including Him Revealing Why He Regretted Transitioning

    08/28/2025 8:46:49 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 80 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | August 28, 2025 | Cullen Linebarger
    New and interesting details have emerged regarding the transgender Minneapolis Catholic School shooter’s manifesto, including one that may surprise a few people. As The Gateway Pundits Jordan Conradson reported, a shooting was reported this morning at Minneapolis, Minnesota’s Annunciation Church and Catholic School. According to reports, students were attending an all-school mass on Wednesday morning when the gunfire started. Two children were killed, and 14 were injured, while three adults were also wounded. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara confirmed that the shooter, who died of a self-inflicted wound, was a male in his early 20s. He has been identified as...
  • Robin Westman posted a manifesto on YouTube prior to Annunciation Church shooting

    08/27/2025 12:41:05 PM PDT · by Freeleesy · 141 replies
    KSTP ^ | 08.27.2025
    Shooter’s manifesto before Annunciation Church tragedy. As we learn more about Robin Westman, the person suspected of carrying out a mass shooting at Annunciation Church on Wednesday morning, 5 INVESTIGATES is digging into their past... The videos also show the face of Jesus on a shooting target and ammunition with disturbing phrases, racial slurs and smiley faces drawn on them. A journal written in another language also includes a hand-drawn map of the church
  • Gavin Newsom Blames Republicans for Minneapolis Catholic School Shooting: ‘This Is Sick’

    08/28/2025 4:45:28 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 71 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 8/27/25 | Paul Bois
    Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom immediately politicized the mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis on Wednesday by blaming Republicans. As Breitbart News reported on Wednesday, two children were killed and 17 others were wounded during a shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school while the students attended Mass. Per the New York Post: The deranged gunman who slaughtered two children and injured at least 17 others at a Catholic school in Minneapolis has been identified as a transgender woman — as disturbing videos posted by the shooter show a handwritten manifesto and “kill Donald Trump” and “for the children”...
  • Here Are Some Portions of the Minneapolis Shooter's Alleged Manifesto

    08/27/2025 4:56:07 PM PDT · by lightman · 81 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | 27 August A.D. 2025 | Matt Vespa
    Robert “Robin” Westman, a man who identified as a woman, attacked Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis today, killing two and wounding 17 others. The two fatalities were children with 14 of the 17 wounded also being school kids. Three adults were also injured. Westman penned an alleged manifesto and posted a video before the attack. His mother reportedly used to work at the school before retiring in 2021. Some of the writings were written in Cyrillic, but New York Post reporter Diane Nerozzi translated some of the pages (via NY Post): Transgender Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman spoke of murdering “filthy...
  • WARPED MIND Minneapolis gunman Robin Westman ‘manically giggles in sick 11-min video showing off guns’ minutes before killing 2 kids

    08/27/2025 3:54:07 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 22 replies
    The U.S. Sun ^ | 13:55 ET, Aug 27 2025 Updated: 17:38 ET, Aug 27 2025 | Carsen Holaday
    SICK footage has surfaced of shooter Robin Westman giggling hours before killing two children at a Minneapolis school on Wednesday.Westman uploaded a video showing off multiple weapons, bullets, and disturbing writings before shooting through stained glass windows at the Catholic school during Mass before dying by suicide.Two students, aged 8 and 10, were killed in the shooting at Annunciation Church in southern Minneapolis, which started during the worship service at around 8:30 am, police said.Officials said 14 other kids were hurt in the attack, while three people in their 80s were also injured.Children rushed out of the building in their...
  • Minneapolis Mayor Shreds ‘Thoughts And Prayers’ Over School Shooting: Kids ‘Were Literally Praying’

    08/27/2025 3:58:05 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 51 replies
    Huffpost via Yahoo ^ | 8/27/25 | Lydia O'Connor
    Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called out the dark irony of people offering their thoughts and prayers following the deadly shooting at a Catholic School Mass on Wednesday. “These kids were literally praying,” he told reporters after a gunman killed two kids and wounded 17 others at Annunciation Church. “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now,” said Frey, who’s advocated for basic gun control measures like universal background checks and red‑flag laws.
  • Transgender suspect identified as Catholic school shooter, twisted manifesto uncovered

    08/27/2025 2:45:16 PM PDT · by bitt · 70 replies
    https://politibrawl.substack.com/ ^ | Aug 27, 2025 | Politibrawl
    Robin Westman, a 23-year-old transgender woman formerly named Robert Westman, opened fire at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis during a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday morning, killing two children and injuring at least 17 others before dying by suicide, according to reports. Personal Connection: Westman targeted the Catholic school where his mother, Mary Grace Westman, had worked until her retirement in 2021, shooting through stained glass windows of the church during the celebratory Mass filled with children around 8:30 a.m. Disturbing Manifesto: Hours before the attack, Westman posted twisted YouTube videos including a 20-minute manifesto written in both English and Cyrillic,...