Children of God

On the Annunciation Catholic Church and School shooting in Minnesota.

Geralt.

I think I’m getting old because I’ve lost my stomach for culture war discourse. That became clear to me amid the reaction to the Annunciation Catholic Church and School shooting in Minneapolis.

Around 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 23-year-old Robert “Robin” Westman approached the church clad in black during an all-school Mass. Westman carried a pistol, shotgun, and rifle on which he wrote in white marker all manner of insane ravings, mainly references to memes and other very online items.

The pews inside were packed with children and adults, ears and hearts open to a psalm beneath stained-glass windows glowing with the early morning light. “For you darkness itself is not dark, and night shines as the day,” a member of the church read. And as they were all about to say Alleluia, bullets began to tear through the windows and pews and people.

Westman had opened fire from the outside and would shoot more than a hundred rounds over the next two minutes. He then took his own life in the rear parking lot, as cowards usually do to avoid punishment in this life, but maybe not the next.