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Yesterday, Stephen Crowder's investigative reporters broke a huge story.

The long-hidden manifesto of the Nashville, Tennessee, trans school shooter.

On March 27, 2023, the shooter, a 28-year-old woman who believed she was a man,

shot up the Covenant School in Green Hills, killing six people, mostly children. Given the identity of the shooter, the media quickly

jumped to the narrative that the story was lack of gun control. In fact, that narrative

quickly spun into another narrative about racism after two black democratic lawmakers

illegally stormed the House floor in Tennessee and took control of the chamber and then

faced the prospect of expulsion from their control of the chamber and then faced the

prospect of expulsion from their seats. Gun control and racism against black Americans,

those were the narratives. The media spun about the national shooting. The real story obviously

was not bad. It was the evil insanity of the shooter herself. What might have forced coverage of

that issue would have been if we had all seen the shooter's manifesto. In virtually all other cases in which a mass shooter leaves a manifesto, the manifesto,

or at least its general message, is made public nearly immediately. The August 2023, Jacksonville

shooting targeting black Americans featured a white supremacist manifesto, for example. The 2019,

El Paso shooting targeting Hispanic Americans featured another white

supremacist manifesto. The 2015, Charleston church shooting featured a white supremacist manifesto.

The shooter in Nashville had a manifesto, too. But we were told it was utterly unclear just why the shooter

had targeted a religious school. And we were told that the manifesto was, quote, rambling without a clear political motivation.

In fact, a federal law enforcement official told NBC news that, quote, no direct motive has been

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