Dan McLaughlin writes for National Review Online about an interesting response to the Nashville shooting.
Katherine Fung of Newsweek reports on an effort by LGBTQ+ activists to suppress the “manifesto” of the Nashville Christian school shooter:
“Calls for police to release the ‘manifesto’ that authorities say was written ahead of Monday’s Nashville school shooting has prompted concern among LGBTQ+ groups, who caution against the publication of such a document . . . . ‘It should not be published,’ Jordan Budd, the executive director of Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE), told Newsweek.” …
… Why are these groups taking this stance? They are plainly afraid that it would be bad to use the shooter’s words because this might cause people to blame other people who share some of the shooter’s ideas. But this is exactly what these groups, and their media advocates, would be doing if the tables were turned. Every sentient adult knows that if a conservative, biblically orthodox Christian shot up a transgender institution, these same people and groups would be pushing the press (which would not need the pushing) to publish the manifesto, precisely so that they could discredit people who shared some of the shooter’s ideas. No honest person could deny this.
Even more shamelessly, we have similar groups trying to capitalize on the shooting to make themselves the real victims here. …
… Again: If the situation were reversed, would NBC write this about Christian parents? Is it even writing such a thing now about them? Of course not. … [L]et this be a police shooting of an unarmed black man, or an attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband just before a midterm election, or an attack on a synagogue by a MAGA type just before a midterm election, and Willis and his ilk will be in full flood-the-zone mode linking every crime to their own domestic enemies.
