We are (still) broken.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A version of today’s newsletter was originally published in 2022 after the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas. We are republishing that piece today in light of the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which killed two children (an eight- and ten-year-old) and injured 18 others.
The details of the two shootings differ in some places. The attack from this week appears to be a targeted crime against Catholic schoolchildren. The shooter, in this case, was reportedly a transgender woman and former student at the school in question. There are fewer open questions related to the law enforcement response in the shooting in Minnesota than there were in the Uvalde, Texas shooting.
Still, the heart of the stories is the same: A young person with multiple guns shot more than a dozen children. Many of the responses were also similar, the statistics have not changed, and the discussion of possible solutions is stuck in the same partisan mud. Accordingly, since this story evokes the same pain and anguish, and because my response and proposed solutions still feel relevant, we decided to rerun this piece. In places where we thought it was useful, we’ve added a few “Editor’s notes” to pull in more recent data, context, or updates.
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| 0:28.4 | search world courier everybody Hey, everybody. Today's podcast is something a little bit different. |
| 0:45.8 | After the 2022 shooting at the Rob Elementary School in Uvaldi, Texas, I published a piece titled We Are Broken. I'm republishing that |
| 0:57.0 | piece today in light of the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, |
| 1:03.2 | Minnesota, which killed two children, an eight-year-old, and a 10-year-old, and injured 18 others. |
| 1:08.8 | The details of the two shootings differ in some places. |
| 1:12.7 | The attack from this week appears to be a targeted crime |
| 1:15.3 | against Catholic school children. |
| 1:17.4 | The shooter in this case was reportedly a transgender woman |
| 1:20.0 | and former student at the school in question. |
| 1:23.4 | There are fewer open questions related to the law enforcement response |
| 1:26.9 | in the shooting in Minnesota |
| 1:28.4 | than there were in the Evaldi, Texas shooting. |
| 1:31.7 | Still, the heart of the stories is the same. |
| 1:35.1 | A young person with multiple guns shot more than a dozen children. |
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