S4 E29 - The Annunciation Catholic School Shooting — When Gun Laws Fail Children

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Two children are dead after the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis. The media calls the guns “legally purchased.” They weren’t. Federal law already disqualified the shooter twice over — through mental illness and marijuana use — but Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota’s “strong gun laws” did nothing to stop him.

In this episode of The Tenth Man Podcast, we expose the deception of Everytown’s fake “school shooting” database, the truth about trans shooters, and the negligence that let a prohibited buyer purchase guns. From Form 4473 to marijuana legalization, we show why gun control laws fail — and why real accountability points higher than the trigger puller.

 

Links

Everytown “Gunfire on School Grounds” Database

• Formerly branded as a “School Shooting Database.”
• Quietly renamed after criticism.
• Now difficult to access: requires an application; CSV downloads no longer public.
• Owned and funded by Michael Bloomberg through Everytown for Gun Safety.
• Link (hard to find): https://everytownresearch.org/gunfire-on-school-grounds/

📄 ATF Form 4473 (Firearms Transaction Record)

• All legal gun buyers must complete this federal form.
• Question 21F: “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?”
• Warning printed on the form: “The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside.”
• ATF Form 4473 (PDF): https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/4473-part-1-firearms-transaction-record-over-counter-atf-form-53009/download

🧠 DSM & WHO – Gender Dysphoria / Mental Illness Classification

• DSM-IV (1994): listed Gender Identity Disorder as a mental disorder.
• DSM-5 (2013): replaced with Gender Dysphoria, shifting focus but still a diagnosable condition.
• ICD-10 (WHO, 1990): listed “Transsexualism” under Mental and Behavioral Disorders.
• ICD-11 (WHO, 2019): reclassified as Gender Incongruence, moving it out of mental illness and into Conditions Related to Sexual Health.

🌿 Marijuana Legalization in Minnesota

• HF100, signed by Governor Tim Walz, legalized recreational marijuana.
• Effective date: August 1, 2023.
• Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management: https://cannabis.state.mn.us/

🧠 Marijuana Use & Schizophrenia Risk

• Heavy marijuana use in adolescence/young adulthood linked in multiple studies to higher rates of schizophrenia and psychosis.
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): “Young people who use marijuana frequently are more likely to develop schizophrenia later in life, especially those with genetic vulnerabilities.”
• NIDA summary: https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/marijuana-safe-effective-medicine

🌍 Wikipedia – List of Attacks on Primary Schools

• Ironically the clearest open-source list of worldwide school attacks.
• Lists Covenant (2023), Annunciation (2025), plus attacks in Serbia, Brazil, Germany, Bosnia,

Commentary on trending issues brought to you with a moderate perspective.

Episode Transcript

(00:11):
Two children are dead.
After the Annunciation CatholicSchool shooting in Minnesota,
the state was some of thestrongest gun laws proved to be
the weakest of all.
Laws without enforcement arejust words, today on the 10th
man On August 27th, 2025.

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Minneapolis joined the short,tragic list of cities where
primary school children havebeen massacred.
At Annunciation Catholic school,during a morning mass, a shooter
opened fire from outside thechurch windows into the pews,
filled with students.
Two children were killed, 18wounded.

(00:58):
The shooter ended the attack bykilling himself.
This wasn't in Texas or Floridaor some state the media loves to
point at from a distance.
It happened in Minnesota.
The very week Democrats were allgathered in Minneapolis for
their national meeting, andwhile they were patting

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themselves on the back, childrenwere bleeding in the pews just
across town.
And here's the bitter irony.
That state's governor likes tobrag about having the strongest
gun laws.
We'll come back to thatImmediately after Annunciation,

(01:43):
defenders of the trans movement,shouted, trans people aren't the
problem.
There are hundreds of schoolshootings every year, and only a
couple involve trans people.
Well, that line is everywhere.
Social media threads, op-eds,even mainstream reporting.
But here's the question, wheredo they get their figures?

(02:05):
This"hundreds of mass shootingsevery year"?
The answer is a website calledEvery Town For Gun Safety.
It's the group that MichaelBloomberg, the billionaire owns
and funds, and they're the groupthat writes half of the talking
points that you'll hear onoutlets like CNNI.

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Now, Every Town used to calltheir dataset a database of
school shootings quote unquote.
But after people like us exposedit, after our videos racked up
millions of views and madepeople laugh at the absurdity,
they quietly renamed it.

(02:49):
And now it's more accuratelycalled Gunfire on School
Grounds.
Well, somewhat more accurately.
And if you wanna see foryourself.
We'll put the link in thedescription because, uh, be
warned, it's not that easy tofind.
They've kind of buried the page.

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And you can't just click anddownload their CSV file either
like you used to.
You've got to apply for accessand get permission, so they've
locked it down.
Why?
Because if you could open it up,you'd see how ridiculous the
entries are.
Michael Bloomberg paid for this.

(03:29):
He wanted propaganda, so he gotpropaganda.
Plain and simple.
Here's what you find in EveryTown, what they call school
shootings.
A principal committing suicidein his office.
A school resource officer,that's the policeman as
security, shooting a vandal in aparking lot, construction

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workers installing carpet oneshooting the other, which is
Workplace Violence, a drug dealgone bad, and shots fired on a
sidewalk on Saturday night outin front of the school.
A gang fight in the parking lotat a Friday night football game.

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Some really absurd ones.
A dead body found at a schoolthat had been abandoned even for
years, and my own favoritehunters shooting at a deer on
school property over theweekend.
All of those count as schoolshootings.
So these are the hundreds ofschool shootings that the media

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wave in your face.
So when they say trans shootersare rare, well sure if you lump
suicides, gang fights and deerhunters into the same bucket,
but that's not truth.
That's deliberate deception.
So what actually counts?

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How many real attacks on primaryschools during school hours
targeting children have happenedin America in the last two
years?
Two.
Just two.
Now that's two too many, butit's not hundreds and hundreds.

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Covenant School, Nashville,Tennessee.
March 27th, 2023.
An Annunciation Catholic school,Minneapolis, August 27th, 2025,
both shooters, transgender.
Now, that's not the clutter, andit's not a coincidence, it's a

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pattern.
All the school shootings in theUnited States attacking primary
school students, a hundredpercent were by transgender
perpetrators.
Now I say in America, becausedon't let anyone tell you that
this only happens in America.
Sadly, it doesn't.

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And ironically, the best sourcefor actual global primary school
attacks is Wikipedia.
Forbidden by teachers to use andmocked by all of us, but it's
actually Wikipedia, notBloomberg, not Every Town, not
some ivory tower academicdatabase, but Wikipedia.

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Because they're the only oneshonest enough, perhaps because
it's crowdsourced and subject tocorrection, to just list the
cases.
And what does Wikipedia show?
Since Covenant in 2023, therehave been nine attacks on
primary schools outside of theus.

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Belgrade Serbia, a mass shootingau Brazil at a daycare Hatchet
killings, Berlin, Germany.
An elementary school stabbingVic Bosnia.
A teacher shot that one didn'tinvolve, uh, the students, but
we have one that does.
Leon Jang China Six killed andone Wounded Dublin Ireland.

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Three children and a teacherstabbed.
China, two killed and 10injured.
Zagreb, Croatia, one child,fatally stabbed, and six others
wounded.
And there's Finland, I'll talkabout that in a minute.
Uh, we're leaving out one thatwasn't technically a public
school, but the dance school inLondon.

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Three girls killed, uh, may oflast year, and then Finland, not
one, but two attacks.
Uh, so one was at Ola, a, ashooting in last year, but in
primary schools.
The last primary school attackbefore Annunciation was in
Finland.

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So here's the kicker aboutFinland that, uh, governor Tim
Walz bragged in the Octoberdebates last year, the vice
presidential debates aboutMinnesota's gun laws, and that
said about the United States, wehave school shootings and saying
Finland doesn't have theproblem.
But they did the last schoolshooting anywhere had been in
Finland in April.

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How does he get away with that?
How come the news media, no onecorrects him.
They can say anything about theUnited States, no matter how
outlandish or any other country,and get away with it.
And we're, we're, we're sad thatFinland had that.
But now again, the last primaryschool attack before the one in
Annunciation also was inFinland.

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Pretty close tie to Tim Walz,but no one's calling it out.
So no violence is not uniquelyAmerican, and also guns are not
the only weapon.
Violence unfor unfortunately ishuman.
The weapon changes, but the whoand the motivations and the

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perversion do not.
So back to America.
What do the last two primaryschool shooters have in common?
Well, they weren't kids, so thiswasn't a high school.
They weren't bullied studentsattacking their peers.
They were adults.

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They stalked little children.
They were suicidal.
And that's key because trans andsuicidal go together and they
were trans.
So here's the first problem andwhy we have to look at our
political leadership.
Under existing law, people withserious mental illness are
already disqualified from buyingfirearms.

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That's why form 44 73 of theATF, the form everyone has to
fill out that leads to abackground check before buying a
firearm asks directly aboutmental health.
And until very recently, genderdysphoria counted.

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The DSM of the, the, thepsychiatrist use listed it as a
mental disorder.
The World Health Organizationlisted it as a mental disorder.
It was considered a disorder.
Then politics stepped in.
The classification changed.
Biology didn't change, suiciderates didn't change.

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Nothing about the danger changedexcept the politics.
So let me ask you, they said itwas a disorder.
Now they say it, it isn't.
Were they right then or are theyright now?
And what are the ramifications?
Because if the old standard wascorrect, the Annunciation

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shooter was already disqualifiedonce, but that wasn't the only
red flag.
There's another disqualifier,and this one is not about
shifting definitions.
It's black and white right thereon the form today.

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Every gun buyer in America fillsout the same federal form form
44 73, and question 21 F says,are you an unlawful user of or
addicted to marijuana or anyother controlled substance?
And right underneath in boldprint, it spells it out.
The use or possession ofmarijuana remains unlawful under

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federal law.
Regardless of whether it hasbeen legalized or decriminalized
for medicinal or recreationalpurposes in the state where you
reside.
In August, 2023, two yearsprior, Minnesota legalized
recreational marijuana.

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Governor Tim Waltz bragged andproudly signed it into law.
He held it up as progress, butlegalization didn't change
federal law, it only created aconflict.
And once you legalize pot at thestate level, more people openly

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use it, more dispensaries, moreusers, more employees.
And under federal law, everysingle one of them is
automatically ineligible topurchase a firearm.
And the Annunciation shooterwasn't just a casual smoker, he

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was a heavy user.
He worked in a marijuanadispensary.
Everybody around him knew it.
And that alone should havebarred him from ever touching a
gun.
Oh, and it's not just the law,it's the science.
For years, decades,psychiatrists have warned about

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the connection between heavymarijuana use in the young and
onset of schizophrenia,paranoia, even violence.
And let me be clear, I'm notnecessarily talking about the
retiree who takes CBD oil forarthritis or the middle aged
user who takes the edge off oncein a while, and those aren't the

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people planning schoolshootings.
But here's the hard truth.
The law doesn't make thatdistinction.
The forum doesn't ask if you area heavy user or a casual user.
It doesn't ask if you're 19years old working in a pot shop
or 70 years old using CBD tosleep better.
It just says marijuana isillegal under federal law and

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marijuana users are disqualifiedfrom buying guns, period.
And if Democrats want to lecturethe rest of us, that the law is
the law, then it ought to beenforced here, most of all.
And yet, when the story hit thenews, what did we hear?

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The guns were legally purchased.
They love that phrase.
It's in every headline, everyChiron, every op-ed, because it
makes you think we need stillmore laws.
But the truth is simple.
These guns were not legallypurchased, not under federal
law, not under the plain text ofform 44 73.

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A heavy marijuana user liedthree times on a federal form,
and that's not legal.
That's a felony.
So when the media tell you theguns were legally purchased,
what they really mean is thelaws we already have weren't
enforced.

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So here's where it all lands.
Governor Tim Walz brags aboutstrong gun laws.
He brags about background checksand about red flag laws.
He brags about legalizing pot.
And he did a compare andcontrast with us in Finland.
But under his watch in his ownstate, a suicidal trans shooter

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who worked in a pot shopdisqualified twice over by
existing law bought three guns,lied on the forms and murdered
children.
Hunter Biden lied on the sameform.
He never killed anyone.
He got prosecuted.

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In Minnesota under Walz, ashooter lied three times, bought
guns and murdered children andWalz has nothing to say
suddenly.
Here's a bigger problem.
When a governor signs a billinto law, it's not just a photo
op, it's a grave responsibility.

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Walz signed recreationalmarijuana into law in August,
2023, what did he think wouldhappen?
Marijuana use went uppredictably and under federal
law, gun purchase applicationsfrom marijuana users should have
gone down or rejections shouldhave gone up.
That's logic and math.

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That's what a functioning systemwould produce.
So what did Walz do to make sureMinnesota's numbers reflected
that reality?
What safeguards did he put inplace?
What enforcement followed thelegalization?
The answer is obvious.
Nothing.

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Absolutely nothing.
And let's just put this inperspective.
Remember Rick Snyder, theRepublican governor of Michigan?
He was prosecuted over the Flintwater crisis.
His connection was indirect.
He was the governor, not themayor, not the city council, and

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no one died.
Now, compare that with Tim Walz.
In Minnesota, under his watch,under the bills, he signed into
law two children are dead afterAnnunciation.
Dead because marijuana waslegalized, gun applications
weren't checked, and federaldisqualifiers weren't enforced.

(17:22):
That's a direct line ofresponsibility and yet Walz has
faced nothing.
No charges, no impeachment, noaccountability at all.
So I'll ask the obviousquestion.
Why was Snyder ha hauled intocourt for indirect involvement
in Flint where no one died whileWalz walks free after a school
massacre that leads it straightback to his own decisions?

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And here's an aside worthnoting, you would think Democrat
governors would leap at thechance to enforce this rule.
Federal law already says if yousmoke pot, you can't buy a gun.
That's millions of peopleautomatically disqualified.
And let's be honest, pot smokersaren't exactly the group the gun

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lobby fights hardest for.
So this would be low hangingfruit if they were serious.
Walz, like every other governorwho legalizes marijuana, why do
they ignore it?
Well, this tells you everything.
Their laws aren't about safety,and they do care about the

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marijuana lobby because they'reabout politics.
Not fewer illegal guns, butfewer legal guns in the hands of
citizens who actually follow therules.
And this is the lesson.
It isn't just about Tim Walz,it's the pattern.

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Democrats brag about passing thestrongest gun laws in the
country.
They take victory laps, they useBloomberg's rankings, like
trophies.
He's got a scoreboard.
Minnesota ranks 14th among all,amongst all the states.
And they build careers onsaying, we've done more than
anyone else to pass gun laws,not to make you safer.

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Because then they refuse toenforce the laws that already
exist.
They legalize pot while knowingfederal law makes pot users
ineligible to own guns.
They pass background checks, butnever check the backgrounds that
matter.
They let shooters lie on theforms.
And then just demand more forms.

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And it's not just Minnesota.
Every state that legalizesmarijuana has the same problem.
Federal law hasn't changed.
Pot is still illegal underfederal statute, which means
every pot smoker in Colorado,California, Michigan, Illinois,
New York, and now Minnesota isautomatically disqualified from
buying a gun.

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And that's not myinterpretation.
That's what the form says inblack and white.
And every governor who legalizedmarijuana without putting
enforcement behind that form isguaranteeing more illegal gun
purchases.
They're doing what Walz did,celebrating new laws while

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ignoring the ones already on thebooks.
Then when people die, they pointfingers.
They wave Every Town's fakedatabase.
And the demand still morerestrictions on the rights of
people who follow the law.
That's not protection.
That's negligence.
Negligence that costs lives.

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Gun control didn't stop.
Covenant gun control didn't stopAnnunciation.
Gun control doesn't save lives.
It always costs lives.
And as we'll keep showing.
The very people who bragged theloudest about strong gun laws
are the ones under whom thoselaws fail the most.

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This has been the 10th man,where one voice against nine is
often the only voice telling youthe truth.
Oh.