Thursday, August 28, 2025
Gun Mayhem Thursday
Yesterday, I was driving to work up I-35W near 50th street when I saw the police helicopter in the air. It wasn't moving, but rather staying in one place. That's when I knew something bad had happened-- and I feared the worst.
As we all know, it was the worst, the very worst, the murder of children at school. This time, at morning Mass at a Catholic school not so far from my house. Again, too, another young white man with a big bag of grievances and hatreds.
At some point, are we going to act like we actually care about this?
One thing that seems logical is to start monitoring social media for people posting about violence and hatred and shootings, the same way we do for pedophiles. It seems that they nearly always post their beliefs somewhere, after all.
In Minnesota, we do have a "red flag law" that allows action to be taken when people threaten violence. However, that law relies largely on family members and others close to the person spouting hate to turn them in-- a mechanism designed to disappoint, because those closest to a person are those least likely to turn him in.
It might be a hard thing to do, but we have reached the point where we need to do hard things.
