Minneapolis, MN – In a horrific act of violence that has once again thrust the debate over mental health, gun rights, and societal decay into the national spotlight, a transgender individual identified as Robin [Robert] M. Westman, 23, opened fire during a back-to-school Mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis this morning.
Two children, ages 8 and 10, were tragically killed, and 17 others—including 14 children—were injured before Westman reportedly took their own life.
The attack, which targeted worshippers through the church’s stained-glass windows, has drawn swift condemnation from President Donald Trump, who signed a proclamation honoring the victims and called for prayers for the affected families.
Westman, born Robert Paul Westman in 2002, legally changed his name to Robin in 2019 at age 17 with parental consent and identified as female. Authorities revealed that Westman’s mother was an employee at the school, adding a chilling personal dimension to the targeting of the Catholic institution. The shooter was armed with multiple firearms, including rifles inscribed with inflammatory messages such as “Kill Donald Trump,” “Who is your God?,” “Israel must fall,” and “Gas Jews,” pointing to a toxic mix of anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and anti-Trump sentiments.
Additionally, one of the standard-capacity magazines recovered bore handwritten names of infamous mass shooters:
Pekka-Eric Auvinen (2007 Jokela High School shooting, Finland), James Holmes (2012 Aurora theater shooting), Adam Lanza (2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting), Vladislav Roslyakov (2018 Kerch Polytechnic massacre), Charles Whitman (1966 University of Texas tower shooting), and Marc Lépine (1989 École Polytechnique massacre). This disturbing homage suggests Westman drew inspiration from these prior attackers, highlighting a potential “contagion effect” where perpetrators emulate historical figures in mass violence.
Emerging reports also link Westman to videos uploaded to YouTube under an alias, where they displayed weapons and flipped through pages of a handwritten manifesto expressing “hate for religion” and a “mission” against perceived injustices.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and local officials, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, quickly addressed the tragedy in press conferences.
Frey notably used the platform to advocate for transgender rights, emphasizing that the shooter’s identity should not fuel discrimination against the broader community.
However, critics, including Second Amendment advocates, argue that such statements distract from the real issues: untreated mental illness, societal isolation, and the failure of existing systems to intervene before violence erupts. As AmmoLand News has long reported, mass shootings like this are often exploited by anti-gun activists to push for restrictive laws that infringe on law-abiding citizens’ rights, rather than addressing root causes like mental health crises or online radicalization.
The FBI and local law enforcement are investigating the incident as a potential hate crime, with no immediate ties to organized extremist groups uncovered so far. Heavily armed police were seen searching residential areas near the school in the aftermath, as the community grapples with the shock of gunfire interrupting a sacred back-to-school celebration.
Meanwhile, Everytown is Dancing in the Blood
“The “Minnesota Advocacy Team” from Everytown just sent out a fundraising email similar to the national one – calling for a ban on “assault weapons” and begging for donations.”
The “Minnesota Advocacy Team” from Everytown just sent out a fundraising email similar to the national one – calling for a ban on “assault weapons” and begging for donations. pic.twitter.com/hK8341Hvd4
— MN Gun Owners Caucus (@mnguncaucus) August 27, 2025
At the same time, CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said he is “disgusted, but not surprised” with the swiftness anti-gunners displayed by calling for gun control in a state which already has adopted gun laws that were pushed by the gun prohibition lobby on the grounds they would prevent such tragedies. These include, but are not limited to, “expanded background checks” and bans on guns in schools, which failed to prevent Wednesday’s tragedy.
“It came as no surprise to see anti-gun-rights stalwarts Senator Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries try to blame guns rather than the deranged individual who perpetrated this outrage,” Gottlieb said. “There are hundreds of thousands of Minnesota gun owners who have harmed nobody, but who invariably are penalized by default because they exercise their rights under both the state and federal constitutions.
“The killer reportedly used a rifle, shotgun and handgun,” Gottlieb noted, “yet Schumer and Jeffries are demanding that so-called ‘weapons of war’ should be banned. Apparently, they’re suggesting that all guns are weapons of war, and therefore should be banned, which is what they’ve been wanting all along.
“We are certain to hear many more details about the shooter in the days ahead,” he continued, “but it is unlikely the gun control crowd will ever acknowledge their restrictive measures didn’t work, because they couldn’t possibly work, and tragedies like this prove it. There is nothing ‘common sense’ about restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens while leaving schools and places of worship vulnerable to horrific, inexplicable acts of such viciousness.
“The monster responsible for Wednesday’s mayhem followed an all-too-familiar pattern of apparently taking his own life,” Gottlieb observed. “He has escaped punishment, at least in this life, and there is no reason for anti-gunners to propose any sanctions against the state’s law-abiding gun owners just because they need a whipping boy, and to create the illusion they are ‘doing something’ to prevent such crimes.
Our thoughts are with the families of the victims. Donations can be made through verified funds for Annunciation Catholic School.
Stay vigilant, America—protect your rights, and demand accountability from those who fail to address the true causes of these preventable tragedies.
Another degenerate leftist groomer. Everyone that laid eyes on that degenerate’s manifesto needs to be held responsible. His “parents” allowed this to happen and they bear some of the responsibility of this groomers actions.
Here you go, from the article. Senator Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries try to blame guns rather than the deranged individual who perpetrated this outrage,” Gottlieb said.
It should have added Jeffries and Schumer who support gay rights, gender changes for youngsters before they are 18 while informing the parents of what they are doing, and faggots in girls sports.
This sicko is a product of the leftist Marxist, Islamic supporters and indoctrination system. He didn’t go to any school, he went to a Christian school.
So where this queer went to school encouraged and enabled his “treatment” for his gender “transition”. Psychologists and gender councilors galore. Somebody in that chain of “professionals” knew this guy was super unstable. His social media posts were enough for an intervention. The whole point of redflag, right? This is the government creating a problem to match the solution they have in mind for the mass shootings they create. It likely takes thousands of mental defectives to get one tuned just right for these events. This is the path to disarmament of the population.
MAGA-Make Asylums Great Again!
second open queer shooting normal people , mental defective that should be a prohibited person
this was indirectly, and you could probably and successfully argue directly, caused by the progressive mindset, one in which everyone and what they think is tolerated, that is except for Christianity and gun owners. first, gender dysphoria was de-listed as a mental illness from the DSM in 2013 by the APA and by the WHO in 2022 under the guise of reducing the “stigma” of being mentally ill to someone who obviously suffered from this mental illness. does anyone remember when they closed all the psychiatric hospitals across the country and let all the loonies out onto the street in… Read more »
Anyone, and that includes his “parents” that read his manifesto are just as guilty as the deviant shooter.
Sorry, massacre is a hyperbolic term for an attack with only 2 deaths.
This is what I would expect from the Lame Stream Media, not from Ammoland.
In 2023 the Nashville Christian school shooter was always identified by the media as “he” because that is how she identified. But today the media flipped the other way. This shooter identified as a woman but the media is making sure to call him a he. It’s like the media doesn’t want to face the truth. I actually read one report where the shooter was only called by his changed name. It was carefully written so that no he/him or she/her was used at all.
Two children, ages 8 and 10, were tragically killed, and 17 others—including 14 children—were injured before Westman reportedly took their own life.
“Their”??? Don’t you mean “his”? Boys have penises and girls have vaginas. Or is Ammoland buying into the gender bender Heinz 57 varieties of flavor genders and pronouns?