A mass shooter who identifies as a trans man murders three children and three adults at a Christian school.

The media struggle to ignore the facts of the story and focus instead on gun control.

And a new Wall Street Journal survey shows that American values are in serious peril.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Well, horrifying story out of Nashville, Tennessee.

Yesterday, a shooter who identified as a trans man, a 28-year-old woman, biological woman,

shot three students and three adults at Covenant School in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville.

It's a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apparently, this person was a former student at the school. On this show, we don't actually name shooters because we believe that that gives glory to shooters. It gives them the attention they so desperately seek. But the facts of the case are things that are highly relevant. So we are going to be discussing many things about the shooter that are highly relevant, especially given the politicized environment in which these shootings happen and in which the media just decide to lie about the source of the shootings. So in this particular case, the National Police spokesperson, Don Aaron said police received the call of an active shooter at Covenant School 10.13 a.m. local time. The suspect had entered the school on the first floor and then proceeded to the lobby area on the second floor, and then proceeded to the second floor.

The suspect was dead by 1027 a.m. Unlike in other cases, officers actually did hear the gunshots and

charged the shooter. This immediately turned into a battle over narrative, which is what happens

with every mass shooting in the United States. The left immediately jumps to a series of narratives

rooted in sort of left-wing storytelling. And this happens with every single mass shooting. You can tell before the shooting even happened, if the victims of a shooting are X, and if the shooter is Y, here's what the narrative will be. If you have a mass shooting in the United States in which the shooter is white and the victim is black, then the narrative is going to be about both guns and racism. If you have a mass shooting in which the shooter is black and the victim is white, it's going to be out guns and systemic racism and dispossession. If the shooter is Muslim and the victim is gay, then it's going to be about Christian bigotry, which is exactly what happened the Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting. If the shooter is Asian and the victims are white, as happened

at Virginia Tech, then we're going to be talking about gun control. If the shooter is trans and the

victim is gay, as we'll discuss in a moment, we're going to be talking about guns and maybe

about the virulent oppression of trans people in the United States. If the shooter is trans and the

victims are Christian, then it's going to be about guns and about Christian bigotry, which is the narrative that the media are taking away from

this particular shooting, which is absolutely insane. Because again, the details that have emerged

suggest that the shooter, a former student, identified as a trans man. Apparently, this person also left a manifesto.

Here's the National Police Chief confirming that the shooter was, in fact, a trans man,

meaning a biological woman, and saying that there is a manifesto that sort of speaks to the

politics of the shooting.

Did she identify as transgender?

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