Last week, we asked a rhetorical question: Where is the Nashville shooter’s manifesto, and why hasn’t it been released? The answer we got makes us no less suspicious of the federal government’s efforts to keep it from being made public.

After all, there’s often much to be learned about the twisted ideologies of these mass murderers through their own writings. We learned, for example, about the Charleston church shooter’s avowed white supremacy. And about the anti-Semitism of the synagogue shooter in Pittsburgh. And we saw the pre-massacre video made by the high school shooter in Parkland, Florida. And the hate-fueled anti-immigrant screed from the Walmart shooter in El Paso. And the racist “Replacement Theory” rant of the Buffalo supermarket shooter.

We’re also waiting for the release of the 13-page manifesto of a more recent shooting — the one at a Louisville bank two weeks ago that left five innocent people dead. That document is still in the hands of the Louisville Police Department, but we know something about what drove 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon to murder: According to the Daily Mail, “He wanted to kill himself, he wanted to prove how easy it was to buy a gun in Kentucky, and he wanted to highlight a mental health crisis in America.”

Sturgeon’s family says he suffered from “mental health challenges” that they were “actively addressing,” but we can only hope that his rampage doesn’t inspire other deranged leftists to pursue their gun control agenda by committing mass murder.

As for the Nashville shooter, a female identifying as “transgender” and a former student at the Christian school she attacked, the New York Post reports that her manifesto is a “blueprint on total destruction,” which the FBI appears unwilling to release. According to local politicians, its contents are “astronomically dangerous.”

There are few things in life more “astronomically dangerous” than a deadly weapon in the hands of a deranged person, so we’re not sure what the FBI’s hesitation is in releasing what amounts to the suicide note of this particular mass murderer. Unless, of course, the hesitation is ideological, which, given the bureau’s corrupt behavior in recent years due to the political malignancy of its senior leadership, wouldn’t surprise us at all.

As the Post reports: “Twenty journals, five laptops, a suicide note and various other notes written by [the killer] were seized from the house she shared with her parents as well as two memoirs, five Covenant School yearbooks and seven cellphones, according to a search warrant.”

Still, the authorities have yet to release a motive or any of these writings. Why is it that the mainstream media doesn’t seem at all interested in this particular manifesto, especially when it seems to luxuriate in others? The question answers itself: because what these writings reveal might be damaging to the radical pro-transgender agenda.

As our Nate Jackson wrote at the time, the media’s coverage of this hate crime was disgraceful, as it scrambled to report the killer’s preferred pronouns and ran vile headlines like MSNBC’s “6 are dead in Nashville. Let’s revisit how much the Tennessee GOP loves guns.”

Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett said he knew the FBI was behind the delay, saying the news was “disappointing” and calling for the documents to be shared at least with grieving loved ones and members of Congress.

That appears unlikely.

“What I was told is, her manifesto was a blueprint on total destruction, and it was so, so detailed at the level of what she had planned,” said Metro Nashville Council Member Courtney Johnston. She added that she’d been told the FBI wouldn’t release the entire manifesto. “That document in the wrong person’s hands would be astronomically dangerous,” she continued, adding that “the vast, overwhelming majority of it” could prove dangerous to the public. “I personally don’t want to know the depths to which her psychosis reached.”

Fine, Courtney Johnston. Don’t read it. But don’t decide what the rest of us can and can’t read.

Refreshingly, an organization called Gays Against Groomers is calling for the release of the manifesto. “Our organization STRONGLY supports the manifesto being released,” it writes, “unlike other national rainbow orgs. The public deserves to know the truth, no matter where it leads.”

Indeed, no matter where it leads.

A few weeks back, National Review’s Dan McLaughlin argued that we shouldn’t publish this or any other such manifesto. “Do not use the shooter’s name,” he wrote. “Do not quote the shooter’s words. Do not blame the victims. Do not generalize about people who share ideas, identity, or characteristics with the shooter.”

That approach would work, but only if we could trust the gatekeepers of this information — which we can’t. When the manifesto advances the Left’s agenda, we can be sure it’ll be leaked out, even if in dribs and drabs.

In the case of the Nashville assailant, the FBI and the Leftmedia think the rest of us are simply too unsophisticated to handle the truth.

The truth, however, is that it’s they who can’t handle the truth. Were that not the case, they wouldn’t be engaged in this censorship.