NY Times: Minneapolis Shooter’s Motive Is A Total Mystery!

The motive is pretty much right there in the headline and subhead

Minneapolis Suspect Knew Her Target, but Motive Is a Mystery
The shooter who attacked a Catholic school on Wednesday posted social media videos and writings that betrayed a litany of grievances and obsessions.

For one thing “she” is a guy. Transgender. Crazy

The person who the police say opened fire on a Catholic school in Minneapolis on Wednesday appears to have known the school well.

Robin W. Westman, who officials said strafed the church through the stained glass windows, killing two children, was believed to have once attended the school at Annunciation Catholic Church, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation.

Her mother, Mary Grace Westman, worked in the business office of the church for five years before retiring in 2021. And in a video posted on social media, the suspect showed a hand-drawn rendering of the Annunciation interior.

And Ms. Westman, armed with three weapons, seemed to choose the time carefully. She barricaded the doors during the first all-school Mass of the academic year, the police said.

But it is hard to fathom what drove Ms. Westman to attack before killing herself, despite the dark and violent writings and videos she left behind.

Well, his original name was Robert.

On social media, some conservative activists have seized on the shooter’s gender identity to broadly portray transgender people as violent or mentally ill. The police did not provide any motive for the attack, but Ms. Westman’s extensive social media history was a contradictory catalog of anger and grievance.

Are you sure we’re not pouncing?

In seemingly stream-of-consciousness videos that she posted, she fixated on guns, violence and school shooters. She displayed her own cache of weapons, bullets and what appear to be explosive devices, scrawled with antisemitic and racist language and threats against President Donald Trump.

The videos also show pages from a diary, with long entries describing self hatred, violence against children, and a desire to inflict harm on herself. The diary entries are almost entirely written in English, but using Cyrillic letters. A sticker in the diary displays L.G.B.T.Q. and transgender flags with a gun and the slogan “Defend Equality.”

Police said that the videos have been taken offline.

Maybe it’s a bad idea to take everything offline, because that creates more conspiracy theories. But, hey, anyhow, after all that the Times wrote they can’t figure out that Robert was nuts, hated Trump, hated Israel and Jews? Though, in fairness, it doesn’t explain why he attacked the Christian school. Other than being nuts.

Rest below the fold

(Breitbart) The transgender gunman who opened fire during a Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic School had a YouTube channel that contained his manifesto and vile anti-Trump messages.

A senior Trump administration official confirmed to Breitbart News that the now-deleted YouTube page belonged to the gunman. A video posted by the gunman showed the manifesto and all of the gunman’s weapons.

One of the magazines contained the words, “Kill Donald Trump.”

“Where is your God?” “Mashallah” and “Israel Must Fall” were among the words written on the gunman’s magazines and weapons.

Sounds like a typical unhinged Democrat. Mashallah means “as God wills”, and is usually used for a positive expression, but, was Robert dabbling with Islamic extremism because Minneapolis is overrun with Muslims and Islamic extremists, or, did he just hear it a lot in Minneapolis because the city is overrun with Muslims and Islamic extremists?

Back to the Times

The right-wing uproar over Ms. Westman’s gender identity echoed the politicized reaction to a 2023 mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, which was carried out by a former student whom the police said was transgender.

Good grief, they spend a lot of time on pouncing, eh?

(The Blaze) A hate-filled 23-year-old male who claimed to be transgender and said he had a “twisted mind” and wanted to die opened fire on a full Annunciation Catholic Church in south Minneapolis on Wednesday, killing two children and injuring 17 while fulfilling “a final act that has been in the back of my head for years.”

Robert Paul Westman, who had his name legally changed to Robin M. Westman in January 2020, left behind a handwritten letter, journals, a video, and a trove of information that serve as ample evidence of a deeply disturbed mind and soul, FBI sources confirmed to Blaze News.

Apparently recorded Aug. 26, a video allegedly posted by Westman to YouTube but later scrubbed after the shooting described a deeply depressed individual who had hatred toward the Catholic faith, President Donald J. Trump, Jews, and the children he was about to massacre with his rifle. (snip)

While asking his parents, family, and friends to “pray for the victims and their families,” Westman nevertheless dripped with disdain and anger, saying, “F**k those kids.”

Unhinged

In his goodbye letter and video, Westman said he has experienced depression and had thoughts of suicide and of committing a mass shooting for a long time.

As has been noted many times, Trans people have a much higher rate of depression and suicidal thoughts than the general population. Perhaps it’s a bad idea for teachers and parents to push them into the trans cult?

Evidence of Westman’s hatred of Catholicism was easy to find in his letter and video. He let out a demonic-sounding laugh when showing a depiction of Jesus Christ in a crown of thorns, pasted to the top of a paper target from a shooting range. Below Christ’s image was a caption that read, “He came to pay a debt He didn’t owe. Because we owe a debt we cannot pay.”

Lots more in the article. I’m guessing the NT Times forgot to do Basic Journalism 101.

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