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September 2, 2025

Gun Control?

I have read news statements declaring that the shooter in Minneapolis, just as in Nashville, “legally” purchased their firearms. I disagree. Here’s why.

The news from Minneapolis once again shocked us all. Someone decided to target a school and shoot at innocent children.

I am always amazed at how much we spend on security for our sporting events, yet, for some odd reason, we go on the cheap and create unsafe environments for our most precious resource, our children. Even when you mentioned enabling training for our teachers, voluntarily, to be armed in protecting our children, Marxist leftists go apoplectic and refute the effort. Heck, I recall Joe Biden ranting against armed church security, even after what happened in Texas at White Settlement and Sutherland Springs. Oh by the way, two NRA-trained instructors neutralized the shooter.

Never Let a Crisis Go To Waste

However, once again, leftists are using the incident in Minneapolis to rant about gun control. They are certainly well aware of Rahm Emanuel’s infamous maxim, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” And since the leftists are, again, in a pickle as the shooter does not fit their desired narrative, they resort to the call of disarming law-abiding citizens, as they continue to rail against law enforcement doing their jobs to enforce the law.

Mental Conditions

The glaring aspect of the Minneapolis shooting is that it reminds us of Nashville. Perhaps you forgot what happened there? Shall I remind you? An individual suffering from gender dysphoria decided to shoot up a Christian school. This came after calls of violence by some in the gender dysphoric community who believe that their “rights” are under attack. What rights?

It is time we had the hard conversation about what happened in Nashville and Minneapolis, and keeps happening with violence emanating from the gender dysphoric community.

First, let’s all stop being dishonest and realize that gender dysphoria is a mental condition. Yes, I am repeating what the American Psychiatric Association has asserted. In plain Colonel West language, if you are confused about whether or not you have a choo-choo train or a tunnel in your pants, you do indeed suffer from a delusional mental condition. No more sugar coating this for the sake of inane appeasement. Because how many more have to be targeted and lose their lives? Especially our children.

I have read news statements declaring that the shooter in Minneapolis, just as in Nashville, “legally” purchased their firearms. I disagree! And here is why I disagree with that statement, and we should start having this conversation, regardless of who gets upset.

Enforce the Law

It is time we stop coddling individuals who are suffering from a mental condition. Folks, follow the science; there are only two genders. On the ATF Form 4473, there is a series of questions that exclude one from “legally” purchasing a firearm in America. Those questions are found under item 21.

One of those questions is item 21(g), which asks the potential purchaser of the firearm if they have been adjudicated as mentally defective. If you are suffering from any mental condition that precludes you from purchasing a firearm. Gender dysphoria is a mental condition. These are facts, and when you consider the manifestos and videos of the shooters from Nashville and Minneapolis, this issue must be addressed. Just the same as question 21(f) does not allow anyone addicted to or using marijuana to “legally” purchase a firearm.

Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota declared his state a sanctuary for individuals suffering from gender dysphoria. I think he may need to rethink this, or certainly rethink the issue of firearms purchasing by individuals afflicted with gender dysphoria. Yes, I hear Marxist leftists’ heads exploding. Why?

Common Denominators

Why do y'all always seek to force gun control on law-abiding citizens, such as myself, who consistently complete ATF Form 4473, truthfully, (Hunter Biden), and abide by the law?

When you read the story behind the Minneapolis shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School, this was a planned, premeditated shooting. What kind of person sits back and plans to shoot up a Catholic Church full of school kids attending Mass?

You want to talk about Sandy Hook, Connecticut? Sure, again, the shooter was adjudicated with a mental condition.

You want to talk about the Aurora, Colorado, shooting? Another person adjudicated with a mental condition.

You want to talk about the individual who shot former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords? He was adjudicated with a mental condition.

The shooter in Sutherland Springs, Texas, lied on his Form 4473 because he was guilty of domestic abuse and had been dismissed from the military, but the US Air Force failed to upload his adjudication into the NICS.

In Uvalde, Texas, the shooter resided with his grandparents, and his grandfather had a felony record. Therefore, the address listed as his residence should have kicked back the application for purchasing firearms.

I just listed several instances where “red flags” should have gone up. We do not need this manufactured endeavor to advance gun control under the guise of “Red Flag Laws.”

Therein lies the problem to be assessed and analyzed. Why are we not even following the law, the standards outlined on ATF Form 4473, instead of having some ATF agents harassing law-abiding Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs)?

This is a serious issue that must be addressed. I’m talking about adherence to ATF Form 4473, and no longer carving out ideological rights to appease a small delusional minority of people, putting our safety and the safety of our kids at risk.

Raise, Not Coddle, Our Children

If there are adults (not kids; leave the kids alone) who want to play make-believe and pretend that they are the opposite gender, go right ahead. However, your delusion does not require that we all “play along” in your sandbox of lunacy. We do not need to acquiesce to individuals with a mental condition just so that they feel “accepted.”

That means stop exposing our children to drag queens, and start protecting our children from sexual deviants and those who are exhibiting a mental condition. How many more of our children must be sacrificed to the Baal god Moloch, just to make some folks feel good about themselves?

If there are those who do not like what has been stated here, well, change the ATF Form 4473 or the assessment of the American Psychiatric Association. And, we need to secure our schools from folks like the shooter in Minneapolis who referred to himself, yes, himself, as a demon.

Demons do not get to have firearms in America.

Steadfast and Loyal.

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