Minnesota sees a rumor rifle violence. Citizens wonder why.
Rob Blancit, a retired Labor and Catholic party lawyer, joined dozens of their colleagues in Minnesotan to gather on the ground of the gospel a day after the only shooting attack from school students who arrive in the Mass. There was no police tape, nor a barrier. The windows of the church and the broken stone were just settled, as the bullets struck the edifice.
Mr. Plunkt came to the site to honor the students who were killed and celebrated the tragedy of 17 other children and the diocese of the elderly. In his opinion, the atrocities were assisted by the rulings of the Federal Court for the Wide Weapons Rights. Like many Minnesotan, he feels vibrated from violence and searching for the best methods of prevention.
In recent months, Minnesota has been a site for multiple incidents of shameful violence. In June, an armed man who thought that a police officer was fired at the state’s legislator and her husband at her home and injured another deputy and his wife in a separate accident. The summer witnessed a series of fire operations in the outdoor spaces in Minneapolis before Wednesday’s attack on children during the first week of the school. In a state with strict laws of the gun and where “Minnesota Nice” is a cultural stereotype, legislators and residents face difficulty in reaching consensus on what leads it – and what can stop – the turmoil.
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The shooting of children at the Catholic School in Minnesota comes after the political assassination rocked the state earlier this summer. Events appeared on a division on how to reduce armed violence – and the desire to appear is stronger.
The residents of the state in “a deep well of sadness and a kind of existential confusion: How can this happen?” Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for Politics and Government at the University of Minnesota says. “It does not match our reality.”
The Catholic Schools Fire School in particular launched a discussion about the roots of children’s exposure to school violence, and whether this is more related to arrival to weapons or mental health treatment, with a flashing point about the role that may have sex defect in a mental state, which the police say themselves after the attack. The individual was born in this case a biological male, but it was identified as a female.
“There is no city that wants to be in the middle of this discussion,” says Mr. Blancit. “But our role.”
Political cracks come to the surface
In 1973, Time Minnesota described it as the “state that works”, which was established as a model of political death led by farmers, an active citizen, and a good judgment.
Today, since the Americans appear greatly in issues from immigration to the economy, it was difficult to reach consensus in Minnesota. Although the state is often photographed as a liberal stronghold, this is true in the Maenabolis region, St. Paul’s urban area in Minyapolis and St. Paul in the wider Minnesota, where corn fields are spread on the horizon and pulled fishermen and who are from the deep clear lakes. The Congress delegation in the state is divided evenly.
“Even among those who support [progressive] “There is a strong issue of social province, given that religiosity in Minnesota is high,” says Dr. Jacobs.
The recent violence chain brought some of these political cracks in Minnesota, and at the national level, to the surface.
The FBI investigates the gunfire, where a Catholic School shares reasons with the church, such as action of local terrorism and hatred against Catholics. “The shooter seemed to all hate us all,” American lawyer Joseph Thompson told a news conference on Thursday.
On Thursday, the state prosecutor Keith Ellson and the mayor of Minyabolis Jacob Fry, both of whom were Democrats, called on Thursday to a federal ban on assault rifles and high capacity magazines. American MP Ilhan Omar, Di Min, called for this ban. “It is simple,” she said, given the scope of the damage caused by such weapons in cities like Minneapolis.
Minnesota is currently ranking 14th in the United States among the states that have the most powerful arms control laws, according to everytown, a set of calling for arms control. The state requires tests in the background of all arms purchases, and has a “severe risk” or a red red law that temporarily prohibits arms access to those who suffer from a crisis, and has a rate of violence for the gun less than the national average.
The Democrats in Minnesota say they will submit a bill to prohibit weapons similar to the attack in the state, but that will face great obstacles to the legislative body divided closely.
For others, the shooting this week raised questions about the background of the attacker and re -debate about school security, in this case, the role of sexual policies in the well -being of society.
Controversy about sexual identity
The Catholic School’s attack came two years after the police identified as a shooter, the shooter in an attack on Al -Ahd School in Nashville, Tennessee, which killed three children and three employees.
The shooter prepared the shooting legally on his first name from male to a female name in 2020 because they knew as a female, according to the court documents. The attacker joined the Catholic Gospel School, and their mother worked there until 2021, according to the police statement and a former Facebook publication.
Mayor Fry said at a press conference that anyone “uses this to prepare our transit society … he has a sense of common humanity.”
On Thursday, the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services launched Robert F. Kennedy Junior has achieved an investigation if she could take divorced women as she moves a role in the attack.
Republican MP Tom ordered his mandate to cancel the “pulsating shelter law” signed by the governor of the state, Tim and Al -Oz in 2023. The law protects those who seek sexual signature surgery or hormone treatments in Minnesota from facing arrest orders, or notes of notes of dispensation or requests from outside the state.
“We have to sympathize”, “The actor Emir, who represents some external suburbs of the twin cities, He told the New York Post. However, mental health issues “are exacerbated by these types of messages” from the ruler, Al -Aziz and legislators who supported this legislation.
On Thursday, the head of the Minneapolis Brian Police said on Thursday that the shooter had no history of the affected mental health or police record.
Looking for the path forward
However, for some, this quiet angle of Minneapolis offers hope that Americans can work together to stop children’s exposure to mass violence.
For Sarah and John McGarvy, the neighborhood is a “place for generations”, which the Church is bound. “It is the type of place where young people explode, marry and return to buy a house,” says Ms. Mcjarifi.
On Wednesday, the couple said goodbye to their daughter, Orla, on her first day of school in the gospel. I barely after an hour, John McGarvi received an invitation to attend school.
Orla survived. The best friend of her was one of the two children who were killed.
“As adults, we don’t think this can happen here,” says Mr. McGarvy through tears. “However, the children knew exactly what to do. They found a cover, and they fell their friends. They had to be the heroes. This tells me that there is a serious wrong thing in our society.”
He says the answers are difficult. However, scenes of celebrations and embrace reflect not only the strength of this society, but it may be a greater statement than the land of 10,000 lakes.
He says, “This will not tear us.” “This will make us only stronger.”