Missing The Point On The Trans Minnesota Shooter

"If you don't give trans people hormones, they'll shoot themselves!"

Well, if you do give them hormones, they'll shoot young Christian children

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) August 27, 2025

Most of the reaction to Robert/Robin Westman's attack on Annunciation Church in Minneapolis yesterday either focuses or refuses to focus on Westman's self-identification as transsexual. A few writers have noted, as I have earlier this year, that trans people turn up remarkably often in incidents of high-profile violence. A few have noted that Audrey/Aiden Hale, who killed three nine‑year‑old children and three adults at a Presbyterian school in Nashville in 2023, was trans as well.

Even fewer have made the point, as Alex Marlow did, that we need to "start diagnosing the trans stuff as a mental disorder as fast as humanly possible.” But oddly, nobody is taking much of a look at the Christian stuff. Think about it for a moment. FBI Director Patel wants to characterize the shooting as a hate crime against Catholics, but Westman will never be charged with a hate crime enhancement, because he'll never face trial.

He'll never face trial because he's dead. There might have been a time when the dead part would reverberate, but apparently not now. Nevertheless, we must assume that some proportion of religious people believe that now that Westman is dead, he faces, or preaumably has already faced, judgment. Scripture is pretty plain about the judgment someone like Westman gets for killing children; Jesus says in Matthew 18:10:

See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.

Conversely, in Matthew 5:10-12,

10 Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you [falsely] because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. Thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Westman was a former student at the Annunciation School, and his mother worked for the school before her retirement, so we may assume he was exposed to Catholic teachings in his childhood. These would have included the teachings on suicide, especially in the Cathechism, paragraphs 2280-2283:

Suicide contradicts the natural inclination of the human being to preserve and perpetuate his life. It is gravely contrary to the just love of self. It likewise offends love of neighbor because it unjustly breaks the ties of solidarity with family, nation, and other human societies to which we continue to have obligations. Suicide is contrary to love for the living God (#2281).

It appears that Westman's plan to commit suicide was integral to his expressed overall intention to kill children at a Catholic mass. So from a religious perspective, particularly a Catholic one, he deliberately set out to do two of about the worst things a Catholic can do, murdering children at mass and then committing suicide, which barring extenuating factors is going to send him to hell, flippin' the Almighty off on the way. We must assume this has now been explained to him.

Both Westman and Hale, the Nashville shooter, left written or recorded manifestos behind, and I think we may fairly characterize both as angry. Really angry. Really, really angry. So angry they wanted to kill Christian children to get even. Both in fact attended the religious schools where they killed students, although this would have been after they had become trans and grown into unhappy adulthood. In fact,

Audrey Hale felt no hatred against anyone at the school where the former student gunned down six people. In fact, the 28-year-old relished fond memories of The Covenant School and wanted “to die somewhere that made her happy,” Nashville police said.

Although Westman scribbled mottoes like "Kill Donald Trump" on his weapons,

The deranged gunman mused about assassinating President Trump and Jews — but ultimately decided that killing “children of innocent civilians” would bring him “the most joy,” the translated journal entries read.

“I can’t really put my finger on a specific purpose. It definitely won’t be for racism or white supremacy,” Westman wrote as he deliberated a motive for the shooting.

Westman can't put his finger on just why he did it, except there's a good chance that his Catholic education stressed traditional gender identity -- and Hale's education at a conservative Presbyterian school probably implied it as well. Yet by the time they became mass shooters, they had specifically rejected this teaching, and they were deeply disturbed, angry, and unhappy, apparently wanting to lash out at people, especially children, who were simply happier and less angry.

I think they were basically both angry at God. We need to reflect on this. They seem especially to have wanted revenge over natural law. Somehow this seems to be embedded in trans ideology.