Penna Dexter

The devastating murder of six at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee that cruelly invaded our Easter season, leads to some conclusions.

First, a pattern of mass shootings by transgender individuals is emerging — In Colorado Springs, last November, south of Denver in 2019, and in Aberdeen, Maryland in 2018. Breitbart’s John Nolte points out that “In less than five years, we’ve had four people who identify as transsexual committing a mass shooting.” He adds, “that’s four mass shootings by people who make up about one half of one percent of the population.” 

Second, this murder of three 9-year-olds and three adults took place at a Christian elementary school and was perpetrated by an adult transgender male who had attended the school. She likely blamed some of her angst on her experience there.

Daily Wire founder, Ben Shapiro says we are seeing transgender individuals encouraged in a sort of victim status and radicalized. He says, “Teaching trans-identifying people that their suffering is caused by a cruelly religious and patriarchal world, explaining that these forces put their very lives in danger — that, indeed, they are victims of a potential ‘genocide’ — creates an incredibly dangerous ideological predicate for violent action.”

Finally, author Rod Dreher states the obvious: “Transgenderism is not normal. It is a mental health issue. Its activists are increasingly violent. More and more have declared their intent to be violent….But this shooter goes beyond all that. She went back to the school of her youth to murder innocent Christian children and those who cared for them. It was evil.” He laments the vacuum that has arisen as our society has “driven God out of its conversations, thoughts and institutions.”

The Progressive media may blame the Nashville shooter’s angst on a couple of Tennessee’s new laws, one, banning transgender surgeries on minors and another —  which a federal judge has blocked — restricting drag shows in public spaces.

Believing saints, we must dismantle this narrative that justifies pure evil.