The Catholic School Shooter in Minneapolis Claims that He Would Prefer to Target a “Gun-Free Zone” Because the Victims are Defenseless. “That’s why I and many others like schools so much.”https://t.co/YbJL0I3qnE#2a #guns #gunfreezone
— John R Lott Jr. (@JohnRLottJr) August 28, 2025
Minneapolis, MN – The manifesto of the Catholic school shooter in Minneapolis has confirmed what gun-rights advocates have been saying for decades: “gun-free zones” are not safe spaces — they are killing zones.
In chilling words, the Minneapolis Trans Shooter explained his choice of target:
“I recently heard a rumor that James Holmes, the Aurora theater shooter, may have chosen venues that were ‘gun-free zones.’ I would probably aim the same way . . . Holmes wanted to make sure his victims would be unarmed. That’s why I and many others like schools so much. At least for me, I am focused on them. Adam Lanza is my reason.”
The shooter’s words were written partly in Russian (Cyrillic), and, the clear message matches what researchers and survivors have long understood: mass killers pick locations where they know nobody can fight back.
*Ammoland News has not been able to confirm every aspect of the translation independently.
Gun-Free Zones: A Magnet for Attackers
This is not the first time evidence has pointed to killers deliberately targeting so-called “gun-free” areas. From the Aurora movie theater in Colorado, to Sandy Hook, to the more recent Lewiston bowling alley massacre, nearly every modern mass shooting has taken place in a location where law-abiding citizens were banned from carrying firearms.
Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation has put it bluntly: “You’re a sitting duck in a gun-free zone.” Research from the Crime Prevention Research Center backs this up — showing that over 98 percent of mass public shootings since 1950 happened in places where ordinary citizens were prohibited from carrying firearms.
The Minneapolis shooter himself echoed the same logic that killers before him have used: criminals don’t follow rules. Gun bans don’t stop attacks — they advertise a free field of defenseless victims.
A Failed Experiment in “Safety”
Gun-free zones were sold to the public as a way to keep people safe. Instead, they’ve created spaces where innocent lives are sacrificed to politics. Author Dan Wos, writing about repeated tragedies, called them “the biggest culprit of unnecessary and preventable death.”
The failed logic is now tragically clear in Minneapolis: posting a sign or passing a law doesn’t stop evil. It doesn’t protect children. It doesn’t save families. Instead, it creates the illusion of safety while making sure law-abiding citizens are disarmed and helpless when the worst happens.
The Real Answer: Armed Self-Defense
The only proven way to stop mass shootings quickly is through armed resistance. We’ve seen it in Indiana’s Greenwood Park Mall, where a young man carrying legally stopped a shooter before more people died. We’ve seen it in Texas churches, where armed volunteers took down killers in seconds.
History shows the same pattern: when killers meet resistance, the killing ends. When they don’t, the body count rises.
Time to End Gun Free Killing Zones
The Minneapolis shooter’s words are horrific, but they also serve as a grim reminder: gun-free zones do not protect anyone. They attract killers who want easy prey.
Gun-rights advocates have been warning about this for years — and tragically, once again, they’ve been proven right.
If policymakers truly cared about saving lives, they wouldn’t keep doubling down on “gun-free zones.” They would empower ordinary Americans to defend themselves and others. Because when seconds matter, the only real defense against evil is the ability to fight back.
Leftists don’t change their minds just because they are wrong. The gun free zones are here to stay! The whole point of GFZ’s was to eliminate guns! Not save lives.
I haven’t heard anyone explain how this screwball learned to write fluent Russian? Do they teach that in catholic schools now? Or any school in the USA, his name doesn’t sound russian to me.
Carrying in “gun free” zones is the best choice you can make. Just don’t get caught.
This miserable, Trump hating, Jew-hating son-of-a bitch, most likely was gunning for a Jewish school, but was thwarted by the sight of armed security, so, his anti-Christian meme acted.
All schools need armed security, unfortunately, in the U.S.
The 0NLY thing that stops a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun.
I would ignore and override.
Gun free zones are great criminal fun and free zones. The only thing gun free zones do is strip righteous citizens of the right of defense. Criminals don’t care about the law. Someone who has their heart set on murdering a bunch of kids doesn’t care about the laws against gun free zones or any other laws. Criminals prefer unarmed soft targets. There is nothing in the constitution that limits ones ability to carry anywhere. Whether states or cities or government outright says that you can’t carry, I say, carry anyway. Why was there not security on site? I have… Read more »
Uh…Gun Free Zones – Fish-In-A-Barrel Killing Zones.
Has anyone pondered whether these shooters might be identified/selected because of their mental fragility, befriended, nurtured, radicalized, warehoused, nudged into action as needed by anti-2A/Libturd/government operatives.
IMOA, DOE should release the 280 billion it receives annually and have the schools hire armed security. Withholding the money serves no one.
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Isn’t it curious how all these school murderers now, write manifestos or some social media, something, which is some how immediately found by FBI, police etc? Because they all behave so much alike, and I’m not speaking of just the obvious, child murdering aspect of it, I can’t help but wonder if what we’re seeing is a new version of MKULTRA. Remember Charles Manson, Siran Siran, the “unibomber” Ted Kacynski, and many others were MKULTRA. The Jason Bourne films were inspired by the MKULTRA program. Without some sort of brainwashing and programming, how else do dozens of people, both leading… Read more »