In the wake of tragedy, you expect solemn words of comfort, respect for grieving families, and at the very least, restraint from political opportunism. What we got instead was something entirely different—and deeply revealing.
After 23-year-old Robert “Robin” Westman opened fire through the stained-glass windows of Annunciation Catholic School, killing two children and wounding 17 others during Mass, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey took the podium not to grieve, but to lecture. His words? “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.”
CNN’s Dana Bash described the line as sending “chills up [her] spine.” Sen. Amy Klobuchar nodded in approval. Jen Psaki, now an MSNBC host, went further, announcing on X that she’s had “enough” of Christians’ prayers.
Think about that. Children were murdered while they prayed, and the response from America’s political and media elite is to mock prayer itself. To dismiss it as useless. To sneer at the very faith that sustained those kids in their final moments.
This is the inversion of compassion. Christians do not pray because they believe it is “enough” in the eyes of CNN. They pray because they believe God is sovereign even in the midst of evil. They pray because it is the first act of faith, not the last resort. And in that church, on that morning, prayer was not meaningless—it was everything.
To reduce those prayers to a talking point, as Frey did, is to dishonor the children and the community. To mock them on national television, as Bash and Psaki did, is to spit on their grief. It’s not just political opportunism—it’s contempt for faith itself.
Meanwhile, Sen. Klobuchar took the moment to pivot to her favorite refrain: “too many guns.” The shooter used legally purchased firearms in one of the most regulation-heavy states in the Midwest.
Minnesota has background checks, red-flag laws, and waiting periods. None of it prevented this massacre. Yet the reflexive call is always the same: restrict law-abiding Americans even further.
And here’s what’s left unsaid: the shooter wasn’t just a random criminal. He was a young man who identified as transgender, who left behind a disturbing manifesto filled with hate, and who deliberately targeted a Catholic church during Mass. That part doesn’t fit the narrative, so it’s scrubbed from the coverage. Instead, the faithful are mocked, and the Second Amendment is blamed.
