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Sorrow and Prayers Following Killings at Catholic School:
A Disturbing Pattern of Trannies & School Shootings – Mt. Archbold at Creative Minority Report
How are Minneapolis Shooting & Association of US Catholic Priests Connected? – Cth Unscripted
Liberal Catholicism is the Way of Death; Mother of Shooter is a ‘Devout’ Catholic – Fr. David J. Nix
Catholics React: Spiritual Understanding After the Minneapolis Attack – Jesse Romero, et al.
FBI Investigating As Hate Crime – Catholic Vote
The Demons Have Taken Hold of Minneapolis – Scott McKay at The American Spectator
After Tragedy: Why Going To Mass Matters More Than Ever – Cerith Gardiner at Aleteia
5th-Grader Says Friend ‘Laid on Top of Me’ to Save His Life During School Shooting – Church Pop
Shooting Came After Bishops’ Pleas for Security Funds Went Unanswered – Jonathan Liedl
Are School Sho*ters Demonically Possessed? (Chief Exorcist) – The Lila Rose Podcast
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I’m very wary of calling events like these demonic or ascribing to them supernatural causes. Yes they’re truly horrific but the underlying causes and triggers are complex and multifaceted - whether mental health / environmental or cultural / systemic but all rooted in human factors. Saying they’re demonic somehow alleviates our shared responsibility. For example, incidents like this are significantly higher in countries with poor gun control laws.
This is from a blog I read regularly:
https://benedante.blogspot.com/
Part I: Transition and Teenage Mental Health
Many people, including me, have the general impression that trans people are kind of crazy. Trans teenagers seem to be particularly mad. It is, however, hard to find good statistics on the problem. In most countries nobody official is tracking how many people consider themselves transsexual or transgender, so most of the numbers you might see are dubious. But the Danish government tracks its citizens with a true teutonic thoroughness, and they do have such a list. Which allowed researchers to discover the following:
• 43% of trans people have a diagnosed mental illness, compared to 7% of the general population;
• the rate of suicide attempts among trans people is 7.7 times the average;
• the rate of death by suicide is 3.5 times the average;
• even excluding violence the overall death rate for trans people is twice the average.
It is a very tragic situation many trans people find themselves in.
Indeed and enabled to find immoral and unacceptable solutions to their mental illness. And if parents allowed chemical or surgical castrations of their sons at young ages, one can only imagine the anger and rage they will express in adult years. Spiritual and psychological therapy as well as laws preventing those below the age of 21 to make legal and surgical changes to their biological gender need to be enacted!
Here is another example of how depraved the Dems have become:
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/08/28/demcrat-responses-to-minnesota-trans-shooter-are-the-most-evil-and-depraved-ive-ever-seen-n2193312
I don’t think their trans status causes their “mental illness” or vice versa. I think their mental distress is a result of the sociological implications of their gender dysphoria. Agreed there needs to be protections for minors who may rush into medicalised options like taking hormone suppressant medications or rushing into surgical options which are irreversible and they may regret at a later stage but on the other hand experiencing adolescent physical changes can be distressing.
There was an interesting article I read about the Tavistock clinic. It highlighted that many trans teens are autistic. That feeling trans may be a reaction to underlying homophobia and gender discrimination ie it’s more comforting to believe you’re a man born into a fender body than accept you’re a lesbian or vice versa.
Undoubtably there’s a sociological phenomena at play since the huge increase in gender dysphoria is a recent phenomenon.
Mental illness can manifest itself in a variety of perverted or disordered ways. A child or teenager desiring to be another gender is a symptom of something far more serious. That needs psychiatric attention, diagnosis and treatment. Trying to normalize psychiatric disorders is not helpful in any way whatsoever.
Except mainstream psychiatry does not agree with you that it’s a mental disorder per se. Psychiatric understandings highlight that the distress felt is a reaction to the sociological implications of their condition.
There’s still a lot science doesn’t understand. In the past we believed mental illness was demonic but we wouldn’t think that now.
I see that, in the wake of this latest, horrible tragedy, the lunatics living in the lunatic asylum known as the USA are squabbling about mass shootings again.
How about a rational approach that eschews attempts at manipulation through obfuscation, distraction, and misrepresentation?
In adopting such a rational approach to the question whether trans people commit mass shootings disproportionately, we would first need to define the term “mass shooting” and then answer the two questions posed in the tendentious gallery of alleged transgender perpetrators reproduced in the main post from the first link (where are the pictures of all the NON trans shooters?).
Father McDonald seems to like AI accounts, so here is the AI account for the query: “What percentage of shooters are transgender”:
“Extremely few mass shootings are carried out by transgender people. The vast majority of mass shooters are cisgender (non-transgender) men.
According to data from gun violence researchers and law enforcement:
• The Gun Violence Archive estimates that transgender people accounted for about 0.11% of mass shooting suspects over the past decade.
• An analysis of mass shootings from 1966 to 2019 by the Justice Department and The Violence Project found that 97.7% of perpetrators were male, with only a small fraction identifying as female or transgender.
• In a U.S. Secret Service study of 180 mass attacks from 2016 through 2020, only three attackers (2%) were transgender. Nearly all attackers (96%) were male.
Why are transgender people blamed for mass shootings?
The notion of an "epidemic" of transgender shooters is false and is frequently promoted through misinformation campaigns. Following high-profile shootings, such as the 2023 Covenant School shooting, right-wing social media accounts have amplified these false claims to stigmatize the transgender community.
Transgender people are more likely to be victims of violence
Research indicates that transgender individuals are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators.
• For instance, The Gun Violence Archive noted in 2024 that while there were four confirmed incidents involving a trans suspect in the previous five years, there were 41 incidents involving a trans victim.
• A 2022 study by the Williams Institute at UCLA found that transgender people are four times more likely to be victims of violent crime than cisgender people.
But we all know, or should know, that AI is notoriously unreliable, so here is a Newsweek article addressing the issue:
https://www.newsweek.com/robin-westman-latest-transgender-mass-shooter-spark-national-debate-2120683
So much for the transgender issue. In addition, a rational approach would get the politics out of the mass shooting issue (and, more broadly, the disproportionately violent nature of American society, its causes, and what we can and should do to address it). I had hoped that this awful event targeting Catholics might finally lead us on the Blog to take THESE questions seriously. But unsurprisingly, my hopes were disappointed. So, yes, I do see a pattern here—continued denial and distraction from the REAL problem. Thus, the lunacy continues.
I am sorry to be harsh. But this is what the USA looks like to those of us born and raised in other developed Western nations. And perhaps the only appropriate, or indeed possible, response to THIS is one of tears and lamentation, just as Jesus wept over Jerusalem.
Mark J.
You need to limit your search to school shootings. All male but identifying as female.
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