Bob’s Note On the Minnesota Shooting

Honesty over narrative protection

Bob’s Note On the Minnesota Shooting

By Jim Reynolds | www.reynolds.com

This is Bob, speaking from the heart of America, and I’m angry. Respectfully angry—for the sake of the victims and their families.

On August 27, 2025, Minneapolis suffered a nightmare.

The shooter: 23-year-old Robin Westman, born Robert, identifying as a woman since 2020.
The weapons: a legally purchased rifle, shotgun, and pistol.
The setting: Annunciation Catholic School, during morning Mass.

She barricaded the doors, fired through the windows, and unleashed hell. Two children—8 and 10—gone in seconds. Seventeen others wounded, mostly kids. Westman ended her own life at the scene.

Her journals praised mass shooters. They dripped with antisemitic, racist venom and detailed her plan to attack that school. The FBI labeled it what it was: domestic terrorism and a hate crime against Christians.

Families are broken. Children scarred. A community shattered.

But this isn’t just one horror. It’s part of a pattern—and the politics around it matter.

Remember Nashville, March 27, 2023. Audrey Hale, 28, identifying as a trans man, stormed Covenant Christian School. She killed six: three children, three adults. Hale left a manifesto full of rage toward Christians and her own turmoil.

The Biden administration buried it. The FBI sat on the evidence for months. Excuses piled up—“copycats,” “ongoing investigation.” When leaks finally came, the truth was obvious: Hale targeted Christians. But the public was denied transparency. Why? Narrative protection. The trans storyline of “rights and inclusion” didn’t fit Hale’s words, so the facts were smothered.

Parents begged for answers. They got silence.

Now look at Minneapolis under Trump. Different story. Westman’s full background—her trans identity, her writings, her name change—released fast, no redactions, no spin. The message: trust the people with the truth, even when it’s messy.

That’s the contrast. Biden’s team hid facts to guard a narrative. Trump’s team opened the file and let Americans decide.

This is why trust in Democrats has collapsed. They don’t tell the truth. If facts clash with their agenda, they bury them. That’s not safety—it’s control. And it costs lives.

The fallout is already blazing online.

• Marjorie Taylor Greene calls it “trans-terrorism” and wants gun restrictions tied to gender dysphoria.

• Mayor Frey warns against broad-brush attacks on the trans community.

Here’s the reality: two shooters, both identifying as transgender, both driven by hatred. That’s not coincidence. It doesn’t mean vilify everyone—but it does mean stop pretending identity played no role.

Meanwhile, Jen Psaki goes on MSNBC: “Prayer is not enough. Prayer does not end school shootings.” She blames the guns, skips the identity, skips the hate journals. Same old dodge: protect the narrative, not the truth.

But a gun didn’t walk into those schools. Westman and Hale did. Each carried demons. Each targeted Christians. And each left behind children who will never come home.

That’s the spine of this story: narrative protection kills trust. Nashville proved it by hiding the manifesto. Minneapolis proved the opposite by exposing the truth.

If we want fewer tragedies, we need honesty—fast, unfiltered, total. Truth may sting. But lies rot the country from within.

Bob’s closer: You can bury a manifesto, but you can’t bury reality. Truth saves lives. Narrative protection kills.