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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast today is Tuesday March 28th, 2023.

I'm John Pudhord. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always. The newly wedded

executive editor, A Greenwald Hyab, John, media commentary columnist, an American Enterprise

Institute fellow Christine Rosenhykrstein, and also an AEI senior fellow and our Washington

commentary columnist, Matthew Kahnetti. Hi, Matt. Hi, John.

Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible tragic, dreadful, horrible news out of Nashville,

this shooting at the Christian school three, nine-year-olds murdered in cold blood, three adults,

or two adults also shot and killed as well as the shooter. And we just retreat to our priors.

So we're back in the debate over how we need to do something about guns,

although no one ever says what we need to do about guns in a coherent or way that

makes rational sense except to say they hit guns and we need to make sure that people

hit guns and it's terrible that guns exist. And then the fact that the shooter is a

born-to-female transitioning to male or was a born-to-female transitioning to male,

a person graduate, apparently, of the school has now created this bizarre side-show conversation,

either about what relation her transness or his transness or whatever you want to call it.

And then the fact that I can't even complete the sentence about how the shooter should be referred

to in the press as the shooter was transitioning, we really shouldn't misgender this unspeakably

evil person who will rot in hell for all eternity for this absolutely grievous monstrous evil

that he, she, they, it committed against these innocents. And I cannot believe, I can believe,

unfortunately, that we are in the middle of conversations that turn on whether or not the

shooter was being misgendered as though the shooter's name should as the Bible says be

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