Thoughts that may make me a bad person

My second reaction — after absorbing the horror of the deaths of innocent 8- and 10-year olds — was to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, urging us to do more than think and pray about the victims, and also thanking the fast work of first responders. 

That means cops.

He praised the very people a majority of the moronic Minneapolis City Council wanted to defund. 

Had they been successful, would the shooter, 23-year-old Robin Westman, have been chased down and cornered by social workers waving file folders?

Does having such a thought make me a bad person?

Another question: Why were authorities hesitant to disclose that the shooter was a male-to-female transexual?

Maybe they wanted to be sure. Maybe, given the hard Left Minny populace, they didn’t want to shed aspersions on the trans community. Frey specifically said we all had to protect the trans community, but neglected to mention the Catholic school community, members of which were gunned down while they were at prayer.

Speaking of which, why are so many serial killers trans?

Well, they are not, really, per a 2-year-old Newsweek story, but the number of nonconforming shooters has grown since then.

Still, trans shooters are a tiny fraction of heterosexual killers, but the trans murder stat might not have existed two decades ago.

It is important not to generalize from a specific to a general.

Same is true for Muslims, Jews, Mormons, Catholics, Astrozoologians, Progressives and MAGA.

One person’s sins can’t be tattooed on the arm of a group s/he belongs to.

Is it possible than the trauma of believing you are in the wrong body, and the rejection by large swaths of society, implants a feverish desire for revenge? Many of Westman’s twisted statements seethe of anger directed at diverse targets, including Donald J. Trump, Israel, the church, the children, and God.

Westman committed suicide by gun after the mass shooting.

Mentally tortured? Yes. Trans? Probably. Anti-semitic? Yes. 

Any excuse good enough? No.

To finish up with a possibly unpopular opinion, let’s look at gender dysphoria, (previously called gender identity disorder). According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, it is defined as a “marked incongruence between their experienced or expressed gender and the one they were assigned at birth.” 

People who experience this share one trait — they are in turmoil. They experience a clash between their physical reality, and their psychological belief.

It is a mental illness.

Does saying that make me a bad person?

No more so, I think,  than saying someone suffers from split personality (dissociative identity disorder).

There is no more shame to mental illness than to physical illness. It is not the victim’s fault.

They deserve treatment.

For their welfare, and for our protection.