Democrats Demand “Assault Weapons” Ban After Trans Mass Shooting In Minneapolis

In the US gun deaths are often the focus of progressive and international criticism, with claims that the US is a wellspring of violence and murder that could be solved simply by banning firearms.  The disdain of the political left for the 2nd Amendment is no secret and their efforts to erase gun rights from the Constitution is a constant point of contention within American society.  

Of course, this means that Democrats are required to ignore every other contributing factor to any shooting and deflect when they are confronted with inconvenient truths.  Democrats are, once again, attempting to redirect public discourse as yet another trans shooter has hit the news feeds.  The Minneapolis killer is one of at least five active shooters since 2018 that were confirmed as transgender. 

Multiple other active shooter events have taken place in which the trans status of the killers was suspected but never revealed by authorities (authorities tried to hide Audrey Hale’s trans status and her manifesto, for example).

In the case of the Robert Westman, a male posing as a female, notes from a manifesto and other evidence indicates that the trans ideology was central to his decision to murder two children and injure 17 others at a Christian school.  It was the direct inspiration for the attack.

However, Democrat leaders and media figures like former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki argue otherwise.  They claim that the availability of “assault rifles” is the real cause, not the insane political philosophy that ruled over Westman’s every waking moment.  Psaki shed alligator tears for the children of the Church of the Annunciation, while simultaneously denying that the trans ideology had anything to do with it and blaming conservatives for not supporting a firearms ban.

BREAKING: Jen Psaki is sobbing on live tv because Christians offered prayers to the families.

She says that recognizing the suspect as transgender “weaponizes” a community.

They want your guns. They really don’t care about any of the children.

PSYCHOTIC B*TCH pic.twitter.com/CVh5eMxK1v

— Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) August 28, 2025

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey echoed these false sentiments and the calls for a ban on “assault weapons”.  Democrats pulled the same spin in 2023 when trans shooter Audrey Hale attacked a Christian school and killed six people including three children. 

The goal is to distract from the reality of ongoing violent rhetoric from the trans community when it comes to Christians and conservatives.  The community itself is a source of steady terrorist propaganda, yet, gun rights are somehow to blame. 

When a member of ISIS commits a mass killing, people don’t blame guns, they blame the man as well as the Muslim fundamentalism that inspired the attack.  Why should trans terrorists be treated any different?    

Mass shootings have always been exploited by Democrats as a moment of opportunity to undermine firearms ownership.  They specifically gravitate to any mass shooing that involves an “assault weapon” (which no Democrat seems to be able to define).  In general, any weapon that makes a private citizen more effective against government intrusion or oppression is on their list of weapons that they want banned in the near term. 

And, as we have seen time and time again in Europe, Australia and Canada, gun confiscation always starts with the semi-auto, “military pattern” rifles and then incrementally moves towards a full spectrum gun grab.   

First and foremost, it’s important to put the shootings that Democrats and the media focus on into perspective. There are at least 100 million gun owners in the US with over 400 million guns.  Out of those millions of people, around 15,000 are arrested per year for gun related murder or manslaughter.  That’s .01% of all gun owners in the country.  In other words, leftists want to punish 100 million law abiding gun owners for the actions of .01% of criminal gun owners.   

Mass shooting events make up less than 0.5% of all gun deaths every year.  Of those shootings, attacks using rifles make up 32% with over 73% attributed to handguns.  When it comes to overall gun violence, rifles only account for 4% of all shootings.  Democrats only seem to care about shootings that involve white people and “black rifles”.  

The majority of gun violence takes place in urban centers and black communities.  While making up about 13% of the U.S. population, black Americans account for over 50-60% of gun homicide victims (and the majority of the shooters in these cases are also black).  In other words, most gun deaths in the US result from a demographic problem, not a gun rights problem.  Remove the violence committed in black communities and America’s murder stats would plummet.   

Trans leftist accounts all over social media are celebrating the shooting and killing of children at the Minneapolis church by a trans gunman. They believe it is revenge against Christianity and the Trump administration for not allowing transitioning children, and defining sex as… https://t.co/owfZ3XCLD5

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) August 28, 2025

As for trans shooters, the transgender movement is a Petri dish of mental illnesses including higher rates of narcissism and psychopathy.  This is well documented.  Take this bubbling psychological instability, add a political ideology that glorifies it, then inspire feelings of paranoia and hatred and you have a recipe for disaster. 

It’s a brand of unhinged violence visible every day on social media but rarely discussed by the political left.  It was only a matter of time before another mass shooting occurred, not because of guns but because American society has become overly tolerant of mental illness, to the point that it is protected and celebrated.