Saturday, August 30, 2025

You Don’t Heal a Delusion by Changing the World to Align with the Delusion

It happened again a school shooting, this time at a Catholic school. Two children and the perpetrator died, and another 17 were injured. This was in Minnesota on Wednesday, August 27.

A person hugging a child

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New York Post cover August 28, 2025; meanwhile,
the NYT failed to report that the perpetrator was transgender

 

There was an almost instantaneous two-pronged response: call the perpetrator by the perpetrator’s preferred pronouns, and insist that prayer doesn’t work. It’s possible that the second one, specifically “prayers are not enough; take action,” is a lead-in to using the event as an excuse to call for gun control.

You don’t solve a delusion by changing the world to align with the delusion. And you don’t prevent violent crime by pretending you can remove all weapons from all of society, really just preventing law-abiding citizens from having an effective means of self-defense.

To read full article, follow link to Substack.

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