Minnesota Shooting Response Toxic Mix of Ideology, Political Pathology

The vicious transgender terrorist attack on Annunciation School in Minneapolis elicited the usual responses from the political left and right. From both sides, politicians and pundits have rushed to reduce the issue to a single causative factor, effectively blaming their political opponents for the shooting. This is not based upon consideration of actual solutions to gun violence in the United States, but on commitments to political ideology. In fact, the shooting has been used — especially, but not solely by the political left — to double down on the divisive political ideology that is a substantive contributing factor to the attack. This exposes the hypocrisy of both sides, of course. They are more interested in advancing an agenda than proposing comprehensive solutions.