I'd have thought the slaughter of innocent children would have done it but no...
It's difficult to imagine a more horrific crime than killing children as they pray in church, so it will be a particular challenge trying to understand the sort of person prepared to do it.
Robin Westman was the 23-year-old transgender woman who is accused of opening fire through the stained-glass windows of the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning during a celebratory back-to-school mass packed with children.
Two children were killed, and 17 others injured, when the shooter sprayed bullets as the young congregants scrambled down in the pews to escape the deadly fire.
No, we aren't going with the neutral 'the shooter' to avoid playing into the fantasy that this was anything other than a man:
Before beginning her onslaught, Westman had reportedly used wooden planks to barricade the church's two side doors shut.
And while each is tragic in its own way, there are common themes among the perpetrators that have become grimly familiar - mental health issues, easy access to guns and an obsession with emulating or surpassing previous mass killers.Westman's victims all attended the Annunciation Catholic School where she was herself once a pupil.
This isn't the first such deranged individual to unleash pent-up male violence on children, either, so why on earth is the 'Daily Mail' referring to it as anything but?
Within hours of the shooting, FBI director Kash Patel announced they were investigating the killings as an 'act of domestic terrorism' and anti-Catholic hate crime.
Call it what it is; another expression of florid mental illness - one that doesn't just go untreated, but is celebrated and pandered to. Even after death.
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