Commentary by Sanford D. Horn
March 30, 2023
While the unhinged transgender community has announced its “Trans Day of Vengeance,” after one of its own massacred six innocent Christians - three children and three adults - at Covenant School in Nashville, there is no call from the Christian community to slaughter anyone from the transgender community.
This event, slated for April 1, is no April Fool’s joke. Those who do not take this seriously would be the fools. Their flier/poster/advertisement says “We need more than visibility,” and “Stop trans genocide.” Where is this alleged trans genocide supposed to have been committed? When? Committed by whom? How could this even be possible when the trans community is one of the most protected groups of people in these United States.
This isn’t China, Iran, Russia, or Saudi Arabia where transgenders, homosexuals, Christians, Jews, Uyghurs, and even foreign journalists live in genuine fear for their mere existence every single day. Yet, right here at home in the United States of America, it is Christians and Jews who are being targeted. (Anti-Semitism is at a disturbingly high level, but that’s a story for another day.)
Six innocent Christians - three children - babies at age nine - Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs - slaughtered in their elementary school on Monday March 28, which should be one of the safest places for them to assemble. The three adults, Mike Hill, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and Cynthia Peak, 61, should also have been in a safe haven - each an employee at that school. May their memories forever be for a Blessing.
Located in the idyllic Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, Covenant School, a private Christian school founded in 2001 educates just over 200 students from prekindergarten to sixth grade has about 50 staff members as well. It’s not just the dead who will be mourned, but the entire school community who have suffered a trauma unlikely to ever be forgotten, that may very well alter the trajectory of their young lives, most certainly their mental state.
But the deranged murderer knew all that as this individual, age 28, whose name will not appear here, was an alumnus of Covenant School. Heavily armed with three supposedly legally acquired firearms upon entering the school, maps of the building were found at the murderer’s home. Additionally, the murderer wrote a manifesto, yet neither the Nashville police nor United States Attorney General Merrick Garland have indicated there is knowledge of the murderer’s motive for this massacre, although they have seen the document.
“They are hiding the facts because it is devastating to their narrative and is devastating to the delusional demonic wing of people in their party,” said Sean Davis, a Nashville resident as well as founder and CEO of The Federalist. “They do not want anyone to know that this murder, this massacre of children, was done by someone because of the evil transgender ideology. And you see it with Twitter, you see it with the police, with the D.O.J., with Biden - they know what went down and they want to make sure that you don’t,” continued Davis, appearing on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Wednesday on Fox News.
“This is a battle not about politics, it’s not about policy, about Republicans versus Democrats. It’s about good versus evil and truth versus lies. And if we don’t stand up for it, who will,” queried Davis.
Davis, along with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA), and journalist Andy Ngo have been banned by Twitter for merely mentioning the upcoming Trans Day of Vengeance. For exercising their First Amendment right of free speech and expression, these three are no longer welcome on the social media platform that, after being procured by Elon Musk, was said to welcome back all its exiles. This at a time when a House committee is exploring the censorship by, and weaponization of, social media platforms as well as the complicity in such censorship by the Biden administration.
As the aforementioned three banned from Twitter were being silenced on that platform, NBC News ran this headline: “Fear pervades Tennessee’s trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter’s gender identity.” It was the shooter who “outed” him/herself as a member of the trans community.
No headlines expressing concern or outrage over the slaughter of six Christians, including three children, could be found. This crime should be treated as a crime specifically against Christians - not some randomly selected school, or some randomly selected act of violence - the murderer, as noted earlier, attended Covenant School some years prior.
And with all the concern for the trans community, and not condemning their upcoming day of vengeance, there was yet another attack against non-trans people - this time in print, and it cost someone her job. Josselyn Berry (@joss_berry), now the former press secretary to Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs (D), resigned after an outrageous posting to Twitter depicting a woman holding a gun in each hand with the caption reading “Us when we see transphobes.” Clearly this is meant to be a threat, yet was Berry banned from Twitter? No.
Postings like Berry’s are egregious and could incite to violence, yet went unchallenged by Twitter. On the other hand, the heinous massacre in Nashville of six innocent Christians affiliated with Covenant School comes on the heels of the state of Tennessee’s wise decision to ban the medical transitioning of minors. The state of Tennessee clearly has the best interest of its children at heart by protecting them from themselves at such young and vulnerable ages.
Simultaneously, there is the juxtaposition of NPR encouraging the trans community to arm themselves, while the federal government continues its quest to strip American citizens of its Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
Gun violence will not end by confiscating firearms from honest, law abiding citizens. Criminals will always get their miscreant hands on guns - they’re criminals, after all. Schools should be better armed and protected, not less - even places like Covenant School are susceptible. When the government - members of Congress, the president - seek to disarm its citizenry - run - run fast - to your nearest gun shop. The Second Amendment is designed to protect we the people from the tyranny of the government. After all, how did gun confiscation work out for the Jewish people in 1930s Germany under Hitler?
Sanford D. Horn is a writer and educator living in Westfield, IN.
