August 28, 2025 • 16 mins
Summary of Events
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The shooter, identified as Robin Westman (born Robert Westman, 23 years old), carried out an attack at a Catholic church and school during mass.
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Weapons used: pistol, rifle, and shotgun.
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Casualties reported: 2 children (ages 8 and 10) killed, 17 others injured (14 children and 3 adults).
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The shooter allegedly took their own life inside the church.
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The FBI labeled the case as a hate crime and domestic terrorism targeting Catholics, though local police had not fully confirmed the motive.
Shooter Background
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Legally changed name from Robert to Robin at age 17.
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Described as transgender by commentators in the text.
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Left behind videos, writings, and a manifesto with disturbing content:
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Admiration for previous mass shooters.
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Anti-Catholic, anti-Trump, and anti-Israel messages written on firearms and magazines (e.g., “Kill Donald Trump,” “Israel must fall”).
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Obsession with school shootings and extremist rhetoric.
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Mother previously worked at the same school; shooter graduated from it in 2017.
Political & Media Reactions
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Trump administration officials and FBI leadership framed the shooting as an act of religiously motivated hate.
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Commentary in the document accuses Democrats and liberal media of downplaying the hate-crime angle and focusing instead on gun control.
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References to Amy Klobuchar, Jen Psaki, and the Minneapolis mayor, criticizing their calls for tighter gun laws and for allegedly ignoring the ideological/mental health aspects.
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The mayor’s emotional remarks about gun violence and children’s safety are quoted, but framed as anti-gun rhetoric.
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The commentary repeatedly emphasizes a pattern of transgender shooters and accuses mainstream media of suppressing that detail.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
These parents. They want answers. Everyone wants to know why.
There is no answer to the why. Nothing explains shooting
at children. We could bring in the world's foremost forensic psychiatrists. Okay,
he was troubled. So if we are waiting on a why,
then we're going to be unsatisfied. And where we direct
our energies and our emotions is to the trial. And
(00:23):
he deprived those parents of justice by taking his own life.
They'll never get the answers that they want.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on
the forty seven Morning Update. And we've got one major
story that we're talking about. It is the horrific shooting
in Minneapolis at a Catholic school that has claimed the
lives of two children, an eight and a ten year old.
I want you to hear from what the FBI director
is saying about this now, making it very clear that
(00:58):
he believes this was a hate time. Yet the mayor
in Minneapolis, playing politics, refuses to say the same thing.
We're also going to introduce you to that mayor and
what is he talking about right now? Not about the
transgender student and the radical left ideology that is quickly broken. No,
he's now talking about gun control and saying that you
(01:19):
shouldn't have the right to go out and buy guns.
This is what democrats are doing, using the tragedy to
push a political agenda, and even Amy Klobuchar getting in
on the action, saying we don't even know what guns
were used yet or if certain laws can stop this
from happening, but she still wants the laws to be
(01:40):
passed anyway. But first, I want to talk to you
about my friends over at Patriot Mobile. You've got a
lot of choices for cell phone service, with new ones
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two Patriot. It's the forty seven Morning Update and it
(03:51):
starts right now.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Story number one.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
There is one thing we are getting from the Trump
administration when it comes to the shooting in Minneapolis. It
is the FBI Director Caspittel saying the shooting is now
being investigated as a hate crime targeting Catholics. This is
something we did not get from the prior administration. The
FBI director used a post on x to make it
(04:16):
clear that the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting will be investigated
as a hate crime specifically targeting Catholics. It was reported
that the alleged shooter changed his name from Robert to
Robin at seventeen years of age. Fox News correspondent Brooke
Taylor reported that his mother signed off on the suspected
(04:36):
shooter's name changed from Robert to Robin. Yet again, another
transgendered individual shooting up a school. Police indicated the alleged
shooter used a pistol, a rifle, and a shotgun to
carry out his attack on the church Wednesday morning. From
inside the church, He's shot through windows, striking children as
they sat in the pews during mass. As you know
(04:57):
at this point when I am recording this to children
have been killed, seventeen other individuals have been wounded. Patel
putting it on x saying updates on the shooting in Minneapolis.
The FBI is investigating. The shooting is an active domestic
terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics. There are two fatalities,
an eight year old and a ten year old, in
(05:18):
addition to fourteen children and three adults that were injured.
He went on to say after that quote, the shooter
has been identified is Robin Westman, a male born as
Robert Westman. The FBI will continue to provide updates on
our ongoing investigation with the public as we are able now,
(05:40):
even CNN is having to admit that this was a radical.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Here is more of what they said about the shooter.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Breaking news. Admiration for mass shooters hatred of multiple groups,
no sympathy for any victim is just some of what
the shooter in today's Catholic school massacre which he murdered
two children, reveals in video posted online videos that police
are scouring through right now for clues and answers about
the shooter, who has been identified as a twenty three
year old named Robin Westman. Brian Todd has the latest
(06:11):
on what we know about the shooter.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
The coward that shot these victims took his own life
in the rear of the church. That coward has been
identified as twenty three year old Robin Westman.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Westman seems to have left a series of online videos
which describe an obsession with school shootings and even named
other mass shooters, such as the twenty twelve Sandy Hook gunman,
the Columbine gunman, and the man who attacked the Tree
of Life Synagogue in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Here's my note to my family.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
The video also shows written statements and several guns painted
with slurs. In another clip, the speaker simply reads aloud
from a closed dryer, manual.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Dryer safety, Your safety and the safety of others are
very important.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Police say they also found a litany of writings.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Were also aware of a manifesto that the shooter had
time to be released on YouTube. This manifesto appeared to
show him at the scene and included some disturbing writings.
That content has since been taken down with the assistance
of the FBI, and it now remains under active review
by our investigators.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Apparently part of the plan that the shooter seemed to
illustrate in those same videos on YouTube, a photo of
a slab of wood. An actual slab of wood was
found at the scene blocking a door from the outside.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Must be for the emergency exit pop it through the hands.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
According to social media posts, the shooter's mother worked at
the school from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty one, and
the shooter graduated from the school in twenty seventeen. The shooter,
now known as twenty three year old Robin Westman, identified
as a female and changed their name legally to Robin
from Robert in twenty twenty. The agency is investigating this
(07:54):
as an act of domestic terrorism and as a hate
crime targeting Catholics. Please, Chief Brian and O'Hara says, officials
there have not yet established enough of a motive to
charge it or to investigate it, Yes, as a hate crime.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Aaron, That is the part that's the most shocking. You
now have two very different narratives. You have clearly leadership
and cashpital and the Trump administration calling this what it is,
and then you have local liberal police who are saying, no,
we don't have enough to actually.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Look at this as a hate crime. Yet.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
The question I would ask is when will you have enough?
As the Minneapolis police chief describing the attack on the
mass as quote evil, noting that the worship service was
marking the first week of school for children that are
attending the Catholic school, He described the shooting as a
deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshiping,
(08:49):
but won't call it a hate crime yet. If you
want to know what's wrong in this country, this is
a perfect example of it. Democrats, even when evil is
steering them in the face, we'll refuse time and time
again to.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Call it exactly that.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
If there's one thing that is happening right now, it
is that Democrats are using this to push for gun control.
Amy Klobuchar said, I have long supported assault weapons ban,
even before she knows what guns were even used. Many
others are also saying the same thing. Former White House
Pressingcretary Jensaki breaking down in tears on MSNBC and then
(09:28):
the Minnesota mayor are saying, why is it that you
can buy a gun virtually every month if you wanted to,
again blaming the gun instead of the transgendered person who
they decided to say that their mental health issues were
normal and decided that, you know, we're never going to
help them with their mental health, We're just going to
(09:50):
try to normalize it. Former FBI profiler said the shooter's parents, well,
they're ones to blame as well, saying you help them
change their name. At seventeen, that's probably when the fuse
was lit.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Now, story number two.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
There's another part of the story about the trans Minnesota
Catholic school shooter that the media is not covering. It
doesn't fit the narrative that they want this story to
be about, which is gun control, and we don't even
know what guns were even used yet, but they're calling
for it anyway. Well, here's the other part of the
story they're not talking about. This shooter had a YouTube
(10:26):
manifesto and it included vile anti Trump messages written on guns.
The transgender gumman who opened fire during that mass at
the Minneapolis Catholic School had a YouTube channel that contained
his manifesto as well as the anti Trump rhetoric. A
senior Trump administration official has now confirmed that the now
(10:50):
deleted YouTube page belonged to the gunman. A video posted
by the gunman showed the manifesto in all of the
gunmen's weapons. One of the magazines contained the words kill
Donald Trump, another one said where is Your God? And
another one Israel must fall. We're among the words written
on the gunman's magazines and the actual weapons. The person
(11:14):
who appears to have carried out that shooting, reported by
local news had it this way, posts a video showing
the manifesto on the weapons and one of the magazines
they put the picture up kill Donald Trump. The shooter
also went to the Catholic school and hated people of faith.
He was a Trump hater, a Jew hater, and he
appears to be a supporter of the Palestinian Islamic movement.
(11:37):
The shooter also wrote Israel must fall and that was
just some of what we've seen in a post on
x As you know, Caspettel provided an update of the
shooting which he stated that two children, an eight and
a ten year old were killed. And it's by someone
that is anti Trump and anti Israel. So why is
the media not covering that? Why is the media also
(12:00):
not covering the fact that this was a transgendered shooter.
Yet again, the same issue we had in the Nashville
school shooting.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
There.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yes, this is a real problem and they're not covering it.
And that's the other issue, which is when will the
media start actually telling you the truth? When will the
media actually start asking the tough questions. Yes, we know
that the left loves pushing gun control when something like
this happens. The Minnesota mayor, for example, not talking about
(12:30):
the mental health issue, not talking about the anti Jewish rhetoric. No,
what was he talking about. He was talking about gun
control as well. Listen carefully again, and yet it does
What does.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
That look like?
Speaker 8 (12:44):
I mean, you know, well, obviously from being a mayor
for some time in Minneapolis, that there are gun laws
in Minneapolis in Minnesota that other states don't have. But
there are some things that could still be done. Is
that something that you hope people in the legislature have
a will to do at this point in time.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
We have more guns in America than people. Say it again,
we have more guns in America than people. Why why
is it so easy to get a gun? Why is
it so easy to get a whole heap ton of guns?
Why is it that you can buy a gun virtually
every month if you wanted to?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
What good is that?
Speaker 9 (13:23):
We're not talking about your father's hunting rifle. We're talking
about people that have gotten guns that it seemingly, in
this case legally that obviously have a whole ton of
mental health issues. You're not right in the head. If
you're going to a church to shoot it up, you're
not right in the head. But the fact that you
have guns, in fact, many many guns.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Why is that? Okay?
Speaker 9 (13:44):
You know this has gone down in other countries and
they say, you know what, We're not going to allow
this anymore. We're not we don't want this to happen anymore.
We're going to do something about it. It's got to
be out of love for our kids, a common kind
of humanity that you understand how deeply I love my
little girls. I've got an almost five year old four
(14:07):
and three quarters. She'd tell you, and I've got a
three week old and I many times today have thought
about the last things that I have said to her
before she went into school. And you know, you shove
these things off as you know, maybe even an annoyance,
Get out the door, put on your shoes, let's go,
here's your head band, come on. But there's also a
(14:28):
beauty to it in that I love her so dearly
and I want her to be able to experience the
school and her life safely. That's not too much to ask.
And the fact that we've seen these things happen again
and again throughout our country, what it tells me is
maybe we're not seeing these kids as our own. And
(14:49):
so that's my ask to people. Don't think about these
as just somebody else's kids. Think about them as if
they were your own.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
By the way, that same mayor, hours after that interview,
going on the anti gun tirade, he is now facing
fierce backlash after attacking people of faith for offering prayers
during a press conference on a tragic shooting at the
Catholic school. Critics now blasting the mayor's remarks as tone
(15:19):
death and callous and wake of violence. It's specifically targeted
children at worship, but at the news conference, the mayor declared, quote,
don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now.
These kids are literally praying. It was the first week
of school, they were in a church. These are kids
that should be learning with their friends. They should be
playing on playgrounds. They should be able to go to
(15:41):
school or church in peace without the fear or risk
of violence. So don't say it's about thoughts and prayers
right now. Wow, that is the mayor of a liberal
city that normalized a radical leftist who said kill Trump,
kill the Jews, and killed the children that are Catholic.
And what do they focus on? Gun control?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
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with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
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These parents. They want answers. Everyone wants to know why.
There is no answer to the why. Nothing explains shooting
at children. We could bring in the world's foremost forensic psychiatrists. Okay,
he was troubled. So if we are waiting on a why,
then we're going to be unsatisfied. And where we direct
our energies and our emotions is to the trial. And
(00:23):
he deprived those parents of justice by taking his own life.
They'll never get the answers that they want.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on
the forty seven Morning Update. And we've got one major
story that we're talking about. It is the horrific shooting
in Minneapolis at a Catholic school that has claimed the
lives of two children, an eight and a ten year old.
I want you to hear from what the FBI director
is saying about this now, making it very clear that
(00:58):
he believes this was a hate time. Yet the mayor
in Minneapolis, playing politics, refuses to say the same thing.
We're also going to introduce you to that mayor and
what is he talking about right now? Not about the
transgender student and the radical left ideology that is quickly broken. No,
he's now talking about gun control and saying that you
(01:19):
shouldn't have the right to go out and buy guns.
This is what democrats are doing, using the tragedy to
push a political agenda, and even Amy Klobuchar getting in
on the action, saying we don't even know what guns
were used yet or if certain laws can stop this
from happening, but she still wants the laws to be
(01:40):
passed anyway. But first, I want to talk to you
about my friends over at Patriot Mobile. You've got a
lot of choices for cell phone service, with new ones
popping up all the time. But if you want to
make a difference and you want to stop giving your
money to liberal companies, well one way you can do
that is by getting rid of Liberal Mobile you probably
(02:01):
have right now. That is where hundreds of thousands of
Americans are now coming together and have made Patriot Mobile
what they are today. They've been in service now for
thirteen years, and right now is the best time ever
to switch, because it's never been easier. Now, before I
tell you about that, I want you to know why
switching is so important because every time you make a call,
(02:23):
every time you send a text, and every time that
you pay your bill, you're actually standing up for the
values you believe in. Your First and your Second Amendment rights,
the rights of unborn children. And you stand with our military,
our veterans, our wounded warriors, and our fallen soldier families.
Because Patriot Mobile takes about five percent of your bill
every month at no extra cost to you, and they
(02:44):
give it back to these organizations that fight for our values. Now,
let's talk about switching. It has never been easier. You
can keep your same number, keep your saying phone, or upgrade.
Patriot Mobile's got a one hundred percent US based customer
service team and literally they can now with technology, get
you activated in minutes from the comforty your home or
your office. You're second a contractor owe money on your phones,
(03:08):
no worries. Patriot Mobile has a contract buyout program. And
this is how we win, folks by aligning our spinning
with our values. Every dollar we spend matters. Now, let
me also give you a free month of service. Go
to Patriotmobile dot com slash ferguson. That's Patriot Mobile dot
com slash ferguson or you can call them nine to
(03:31):
seven to two Patriot, use the promo code ferguson, and
you're gonna get one month free service by switching today.
So again, patriotmobile dot com slash ferguson. Use the promo
code ferguson, You'll get a free month of service today
patriotmobile dot com slash ferguson or nine to seven to
two Patriot. It's the forty seven Morning Update and it
(03:51):
starts right now.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Story number one.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
There is one thing we are getting from the Trump
administration when it comes to the shooting in Minneapolis. It
is the FBI Director Caspittel saying the shooting is now
being investigated as a hate crime targeting Catholics. This is
something we did not get from the prior administration. The
FBI director used a post on x to make it
(04:16):
clear that the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting will be investigated
as a hate crime specifically targeting Catholics. It was reported
that the alleged shooter changed his name from Robert to
Robin at seventeen years of age. Fox News correspondent Brooke
Taylor reported that his mother signed off on the suspected
(04:36):
shooter's name changed from Robert to Robin. Yet again, another
transgendered individual shooting up a school. Police indicated the alleged
shooter used a pistol, a rifle, and a shotgun to
carry out his attack on the church Wednesday morning. From
inside the church, He's shot through windows, striking children as
they sat in the pews during mass. As you know
(04:57):
at this point when I am recording this to children
have been killed, seventeen other individuals have been wounded. Patel
putting it on x saying updates on the shooting in Minneapolis.
The FBI is investigating. The shooting is an active domestic
terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics. There are two fatalities,
an eight year old and a ten year old, in
(05:18):
addition to fourteen children and three adults that were injured.
He went on to say after that quote, the shooter
has been identified is Robin Westman, a male born as
Robert Westman. The FBI will continue to provide updates on
our ongoing investigation with the public as we are able now,
(05:40):
even CNN is having to admit that this was a radical.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Here is more of what they said about the shooter.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Breaking news. Admiration for mass shooters hatred of multiple groups,
no sympathy for any victim is just some of what
the shooter in today's Catholic school massacre which he murdered
two children, reveals in video posted online videos that police
are scouring through right now for clues and answers about
the shooter, who has been identified as a twenty three
year old named Robin Westman. Brian Todd has the latest
(06:11):
on what we know about the shooter.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
The coward that shot these victims took his own life
in the rear of the church. That coward has been
identified as twenty three year old Robin Westman.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Westman seems to have left a series of online videos
which describe an obsession with school shootings and even named
other mass shooters, such as the twenty twelve Sandy Hook gunman,
the Columbine gunman, and the man who attacked the Tree
of Life Synagogue in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Here's my note to my family.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
The video also shows written statements and several guns painted
with slurs. In another clip, the speaker simply reads aloud
from a closed dryer, manual.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Dryer safety, Your safety and the safety of others are
very important.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Police say they also found a litany of writings.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Were also aware of a manifesto that the shooter had
time to be released on YouTube. This manifesto appeared to
show him at the scene and included some disturbing writings.
That content has since been taken down with the assistance
of the FBI, and it now remains under active review
by our investigators.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Apparently part of the plan that the shooter seemed to
illustrate in those same videos on YouTube, a photo of
a slab of wood. An actual slab of wood was
found at the scene blocking a door from the outside.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Must be for the emergency exit pop it through the hands.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
According to social media posts, the shooter's mother worked at
the school from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty one, and
the shooter graduated from the school in twenty seventeen. The shooter,
now known as twenty three year old Robin Westman, identified
as a female and changed their name legally to Robin
from Robert in twenty twenty. The agency is investigating this
(07:54):
as an act of domestic terrorism and as a hate
crime targeting Catholics. Please, Chief Brian and O'Hara says, officials
there have not yet established enough of a motive to
charge it or to investigate it, Yes, as a hate crime.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Aaron, That is the part that's the most shocking. You
now have two very different narratives. You have clearly leadership
and cashpital and the Trump administration calling this what it is,
and then you have local liberal police who are saying, no,
we don't have enough to actually.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Look at this as a hate crime. Yet.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
The question I would ask is when will you have enough?
As the Minneapolis police chief describing the attack on the
mass as quote evil, noting that the worship service was
marking the first week of school for children that are
attending the Catholic school, He described the shooting as a
deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshiping,
(08:49):
but won't call it a hate crime yet. If you
want to know what's wrong in this country, this is
a perfect example of it. Democrats, even when evil is
steering them in the face, we'll refuse time and time
again to.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Call it exactly that.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
If there's one thing that is happening right now, it
is that Democrats are using this to push for gun control.
Amy Klobuchar said, I have long supported assault weapons ban,
even before she knows what guns were even used. Many
others are also saying the same thing. Former White House
Pressingcretary Jensaki breaking down in tears on MSNBC and then
(09:28):
the Minnesota mayor are saying, why is it that you
can buy a gun virtually every month if you wanted to,
again blaming the gun instead of the transgendered person who
they decided to say that their mental health issues were
normal and decided that, you know, we're never going to
help them with their mental health, We're just going to
(09:50):
try to normalize it. Former FBI profiler said the shooter's parents, well,
they're ones to blame as well, saying you help them
change their name. At seventeen, that's probably when the fuse
was lit.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Now, story number two.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
There's another part of the story about the trans Minnesota
Catholic school shooter that the media is not covering. It
doesn't fit the narrative that they want this story to
be about, which is gun control, and we don't even
know what guns were even used yet, but they're calling
for it anyway. Well, here's the other part of the
story they're not talking about. This shooter had a YouTube
(10:26):
manifesto and it included vile anti Trump messages written on guns.
The transgender gumman who opened fire during that mass at
the Minneapolis Catholic School had a YouTube channel that contained
his manifesto as well as the anti Trump rhetoric. A
senior Trump administration official has now confirmed that the now
(10:50):
deleted YouTube page belonged to the gunman. A video posted
by the gunman showed the manifesto in all of the
gunmen's weapons. One of the magazines contained the words kill
Donald Trump, another one said where is Your God? And
another one Israel must fall. We're among the words written
on the gunman's magazines and the actual weapons. The person
(11:14):
who appears to have carried out that shooting, reported by
local news had it this way, posts a video showing
the manifesto on the weapons and one of the magazines
they put the picture up kill Donald Trump. The shooter
also went to the Catholic school and hated people of faith.
He was a Trump hater, a Jew hater, and he
appears to be a supporter of the Palestinian Islamic movement.
(11:37):
The shooter also wrote Israel must fall and that was
just some of what we've seen in a post on
x As you know, Caspettel provided an update of the
shooting which he stated that two children, an eight and
a ten year old were killed. And it's by someone
that is anti Trump and anti Israel. So why is
the media not covering that? Why is the media also
(12:00):
not covering the fact that this was a transgendered shooter.
Yet again, the same issue we had in the Nashville
school shooting.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
There.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yes, this is a real problem and they're not covering it.
And that's the other issue, which is when will the
media start actually telling you the truth? When will the
media actually start asking the tough questions. Yes, we know
that the left loves pushing gun control when something like
this happens. The Minnesota mayor, for example, not talking about
(12:30):
the mental health issue, not talking about the anti Jewish rhetoric. No,
what was he talking about. He was talking about gun
control as well. Listen carefully again, and yet it does
What does.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
That look like?
Speaker 8 (12:44):
I mean, you know, well, obviously from being a mayor
for some time in Minneapolis, that there are gun laws
in Minneapolis in Minnesota that other states don't have. But
there are some things that could still be done. Is
that something that you hope people in the legislature have
a will to do at this point in time.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
We have more guns in America than people. Say it again,
we have more guns in America than people. Why why
is it so easy to get a gun? Why is
it so easy to get a whole heap ton of guns?
Why is it that you can buy a gun virtually
every month if you wanted to?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
What good is that?
Speaker 9 (13:23):
We're not talking about your father's hunting rifle. We're talking
about people that have gotten guns that it seemingly, in
this case legally that obviously have a whole ton of
mental health issues. You're not right in the head. If
you're going to a church to shoot it up, you're
not right in the head. But the fact that you
have guns, in fact, many many guns.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Why is that? Okay?
Speaker 9 (13:44):
You know this has gone down in other countries and
they say, you know what, We're not going to allow
this anymore. We're not we don't want this to happen anymore.
We're going to do something about it. It's got to
be out of love for our kids, a common kind
of humanity that you understand how deeply I love my
little girls. I've got an almost five year old four
(14:07):
and three quarters. She'd tell you, and I've got a
three week old and I many times today have thought
about the last things that I have said to her
before she went into school. And you know, you shove
these things off as you know, maybe even an annoyance,
Get out the door, put on your shoes, let's go,
here's your head band, come on. But there's also a
(14:28):
beauty to it in that I love her so dearly
and I want her to be able to experience the
school and her life safely. That's not too much to ask.
And the fact that we've seen these things happen again
and again throughout our country, what it tells me is
maybe we're not seeing these kids as our own. And
(14:49):
so that's my ask to people. Don't think about these
as just somebody else's kids. Think about them as if
they were your own.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
By the way, that same mayor, hours after that interview,
going on the anti gun tirade, he is now facing
fierce backlash after attacking people of faith for offering prayers
during a press conference on a tragic shooting at the
Catholic school. Critics now blasting the mayor's remarks as tone
(15:19):
death and callous and wake of violence. It's specifically targeted
children at worship, but at the news conference, the mayor declared, quote,
don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now.
These kids are literally praying. It was the first week
of school, they were in a church. These are kids
that should be learning with their friends. They should be
playing on playgrounds. They should be able to go to
(15:41):
school or church in peace without the fear or risk
of violence. So don't say it's about thoughts and prayers
right now. Wow, that is the mayor of a liberal
city that normalized a radical leftist who said kill Trump,
kill the Jews, and killed the children that are Catholic.
And what do they focus on? Gun control?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
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