Larry's Final Thoughts

A long list has been highlighted about how Transgender people have a mental illness. There are things more important than the politics of being transgender. Mental health awareness needs to be studied harder because of Wednesday's shooting in Minneapolis.  

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
On Minty in the Morning on War Here's Larry and
some final thoughts. You may have heard about the controversy
that there may have or may not have been a
rash of mass shootings involving transgender shooters. This topic has
risen to the very top of the social media topic

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heap after another mass shooting at church in Indianapolis in Minneapolis.
The shooter is twenty three year old Robin Westman, who
was born Robert Westman. A long list has been highlighted
on social media of transgender mass shooters, and some of
them are just not true, but enough are true for

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this to be concerning, especially in the past few years. Ironically,
the two most hope high profile recent transgender shootings is
this week's shooting at a Catholic school and church in Minneapolis.
The shooter, Robert Westman, is a former of the school,
and a shooting in Nashville at a private Christian school

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that killed six. Audrey Hail, a transgender woman, was also
alumni of Christian school. There are a few other mass
shootings over the past decade where the shooter was transgender,
but the topic itself you can't even bring up. It's
controversial and has become political with conservatives including shootings that

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were not carried out by a transgender person in liberals
screaming that there's no connection whatsoever. There are some things
more important than trans politics. How about the lives of
innocent children. Yes, this will and should be studied away
from the noise of politics, because the video manifesto of

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the Minneapolis shooter exposes several mental health and identity problems
by the shooter, and the manifesto in Nashville was hidden
from us, but needs to be studied. Too many times
these political fights cost lives. We all need to get

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out of the way and let the experts work unencumbered
by the distraction of political bickering.