Protecting Children & Teachers & Society from Reoffenders & Gender IDing – Top 3 Takeaways, August 28th, 2025
Takeaway #1: What will it take to protect children and teachers?
Wednesday’s horrific shooting into a Catholic church on a K-8th grade school’s campus aimed at children attending mass in Minneapolis produced a few immediately important points. The first thought that jumped out to me is the lack of school security. In a broken world, with many especially broken people, we’re in a highly unfortunate age of school shootings. Anytime we hear of any school shootings I can’t help but to think of why it is that all states haven’t done what Florida has done. Since the horrific massacre at Stoneman Douglas in 2018, and the subsequent passage of the Majorie Stoneman Douglas Safety Act there have sadly and remarkably been 228 shootings on school campuses resulting in deaths or injuries with 37 children who’ve been killed along with 10 teachers. None of these have occurred in Florida, the third most populous state. Did you know that in the first semester in Florida’s 2024-2025 school year 55 arrests were made based on threats to harm children in schools? The combination of a mandatory, armed law enforcement presence and extensive proactiveness by law enforcement, as is compelled under Florida law, it’s been seven and a half years since horror has struck any school campuses in our state. Florida’s example should be the country’s example. If states won’t do what it takes to protect children in school...The federal government should step in and pass federal policy to see that they do. It’s clear what does and doesn’t work and I don’t understand why more states won’t do what it takes to protect children and educators at school.
Takeaway #2: Gender Identity is a mental health crisis
So, similar to the religious school shooting in Nashville, we learned the perp is a 23-year-old man who pretended to be a woman and wanted to kill Donald Trump and decided to kill school children instead. One of the more ridiculous things you will read and hear pertaining to this case is the number of journos going out of their way to embrace the perps' pronouns. References to “their” have been rampant in reference to the perp. Let’s be clear about a couple of things. God doesn’t make mistakes. There are only two genders, and it’s decided before birth. Those who continue to advance the homosexual alphabet in society, are cancers in society. Rather than dealing with the evident mental health issues that exist with those who pretend to be something other than what they are, they lend credence to the condition leading to longer term issues. With the Nashville school shooting and the Minneapolis school shooting we’re starting to see the problems that exist when there are a generation of kids who were brought up and taught that God’s law and nature’s law don’t exist and that they can be anything on the homosexual alphabet that they choose to be. Now, prior to the identification of said perp...the Minneapolis Police Chief said that the perpetrator, who carried a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol didn’t have “an extensive criminal history”. However, that immediately caught my attention. Question for you. Forget the idea of an “extensive” criminal history for a moment. Do you have any criminal history? Do you know what the eight-year recidivism rate for someone with any criminal history under the age of 30 is? It’s 89.7%. In other words, for 9 out of 10 people with any criminal history under the age of 30, their criminal history will be “extensive”, it’s just a matter of time. This is a complicated issue to address but as we’re in the middle of the Trump administration's push for major city law enforcement crackdowns, criminal justice reforms should be evaluated too. For well over a decade criminal justice reform has meant lessor prosecutions and more leniency. However, the most likely person in society to commit a crime of any kind is someone who’s already committed one. This should be part of a larger conversation. So, about that...
Takeaway #3: Speaking of criminal behavior...
In recent years I’ve regularly highlighted that illegal aliens have been responsible for committing about a quarter of all crime, with illegals most recently having been greater than 9 times as likely to commit a criminal act than a legal citizen. Now, as for reducing the remaining 75% of the crime committed in society, using data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, what percentage of total crime, not committed by illegal immigrants, is the result of repeat offenders? The survey says...80%. So, if you wanted to reduce 60% of all crime committed – you'd take a harder look all people with criminal histories. I’m not suggesting the right idea is to put convicted criminals away and throw away the key for just about any offense. But what I’m suggesting is that the data are overwhelmingly screaming at us that we’re way too lenient as a society. And when only about one in five convicted criminals don’t reoffend who exactly is it that we’re erroring on the side of by handling sentencing and punishments the way that it’s been handled? The 80% who will reoffend over innocent future victims in society and the 20% who do make the most out of a second chance? Tougher sentences, tougher penalties, and policies like what we used to have like the “three strikes and you're out law” would seemingly make much more sense to me based on what we continue to see. This is another angle that if properly addressed could serve to protect everyone in society. We’ve already seen a dramatic decline in crime since the Trump administration cracked down on illegal immigration. We could benefit still further by addressing the issues presented by those who’ve already offended.