When Delusion Turns Deadly: The Minneapolis Massacre

Tragedy struck in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when a deranged shooter opened fire at Annunciation Catholic School during a schoolwide Mass for students in pre-k through 8th grade. Two children—an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old—were killed, and 17 others, including 14 children, were injured before the gunman took his own life.

Early reports identified the shooter as Robin Eastman—formerly “Robert” Eastman. This case is quickly shaping up as another instance of a trans-identified shooter acting out of Christian hate.

Documents from a Minnesota court show that in 2019, Robert’s parents requested a legal name change to Robin because their minor son identified as a female and wanted a name to reflect that identity.

What we’re seeing is a disturbing pattern. Despite being less than one percent of the population, trans-identified individuals are increasingly appearing at the center of mass violence. Denver, Aberdeen, Iowa, Philadelphia, Nashville, Colorado Springs—the list is growing. Encouraging people to embrace mental illness as identity isn’t helping them—or anyone.

You cannot inject the mentally ill with a cocktail of experimental hormones in the name of “gender-affirming care” and expect no consequences. Yesterday’s attack shows the worst of those consequences: devastating, horrifying, and wholly preventable.
Yet Minnesota leaders—Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan—immediately shifted their focus elsewhere. Listen:

Meanwhile, videos surfaced showing Eastman flaunting his arsenal—gun magazines with “Kill Donald Trump” and “Where is your God” scrawled across them—alongside a manifesto. In it, he apologized to friends and family for what he called his “mission” and “final act.” He confessed to depression, twisted thoughts, and the belief that life’s good could never outweigh the bad. He claimed his “final act” had lived in his head for a long time—justified as a way to fight injustice.

His idea of “justice” was gunning down children in a Catholic Church. That’s not justice. That’s evil—evil amplified by a culture that validates delusion.
Federal forces assisted local police at the scene, in part because Minneapolis police are already stretched dangerously thin.

The force is short around 100 officers—barely meeting the legal minimum threshold. Before the so-called “Summer of Love,” Minneapolis actually had a surplus of nearly 200 officers. But after 2020, hundreds left. In their absence, city leaders piled on consent decrees, outsourced police responsibilities to social workers, and watched as violent crime climbed.

Mayor Frey doesn’t see that as the problem. He says the real problem is “thoughts and prayers.”

We all know what that means: he wants gun control—something even less effective than thoughts and prayers. Senator Amy Klobuchar wasted no time calling for more gun control either, despite Minneapolis already having some of the strictest laws in the nation

And things may get worse. The frontrunner to replace Frey as mayor is Omar Fateh, a Muslim Democratic-Socialist who wants to swap out even more police officers for social workers—while spending more energy fighting Donald Trump than fighting crime.

Guess where the money for those social workers will come from? The police budget. Once again, it’s “defund the police,” no matter how they phrase it.
The Democratic Party refuses accountability. Instead of owning up to soft-on-crime policies that embolden criminals, they double down. Governor Walz has been raging at the DNC, attacking Trump for deploying the National Guard while his own city spirals.

It’s political malpractice. Democrats are branding themselves as the pro-crime party—and it’s wildly out of step with the public. An AP poll this week shows 81% of Americans consider crime a major problem. That includes 96% of Republicans, 72% of Independents, and even 68% of Democrats. Supermajorities all.

Yet Democrats on the DNC stage push denial. Congressman Jamie Raskin downplayed crime as “just part of our history,” while deflecting to red cities.

Fact check: of America’s 20 most violent cities, 19 have Democrat mayors.

This is a uniquely Democrat problem—and it’s not hard to see why. Chicago’s Brandon Johnson openly says putting criminals in prison is racist and unholy. His words, not mine.

I’d argue the opposite: refusing to put violent people in jail because of their race is racist—and it leaves black and brown victims to suffer the consequences.

Crime is shaping up to be one of the biggest issues in the midterms. On the economy, immigration, and now crime, Democrats have chosen the wrong side every time.

As they double down on delusion-affirming policies and defunding the police, tragedies like Minneapolis will multiply. Innocent kids will be slaughtered while leaders focus on gun control and fighting Donald Trump.

Time for accountability: reverse the radical rot, fund real law enforcement, and stop breeding killers. America’s safety demands it.

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