S4 E29 - The Annunciation Catholic School Shooting — When Gun Laws Fail Children

Two children are dead after the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis. The media calls the guns “legally purchased.” They weren’t. Federal law already disqualified the shooter twice over — through mental illness and marijuana use — but Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota’s “strong gun laws” did nothing to stop him.

In this episode of The Tenth Man Podcast, we expose the deception of Everytown’s fake “school shooting” database, the truth about trans shooters, and the negligence that let a prohibited buyer purchase guns. From Form 4473 to marijuana legalization, we show why gun control laws fail — and why real accountability points higher than the trigger puller.

Links

Everytown “Gunfire on School Grounds” Database

• Formerly branded as a “School Shooting Database.”
• Quietly renamed after criticism.
• Now difficult to access: requires an application; CSV downloads no longer public.
• Owned and funded by Michael Bloomberg through Everytown for Gun Safety.
• Link (hard to find): https://everytownresearch.org/gunfire-on-school-grounds/

📄 ATF Form 4473 (Firearms Transaction Record)

• All legal gun buyers must complete this federal form.
• Question 21F: “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?”
• Warning printed on the form: “The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside.”
• ATF Form 4473 (PDF): https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/4473-part-1-firearms-transaction-record-over-counter-atf-form-53009/download

🧠 DSM & WHO – Gender Dysphoria / Mental Illness Classification

• DSM-IV (1994): listed Gender Identity Disorder as a mental disorder.
• DSM-5 (2013): replaced with Gender Dysphoria, shifting focus but still a diagnosable condition.
• ICD-10 (WHO, 1990): listed “Transsexualism” under Mental and Behavioral Disorders.
• ICD-11 (WHO, 2019): reclassified as Gender Incongruence, moving it out of mental illness and into Conditions Related to Sexual Health.

🌿 Marijuana Legalization in Minnesota

• HF100, signed by Governor Tim Walz, legalized recreational marijuana.
• Effective date: August 1, 2023.
• Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management: https://cannabis.state.mn.us/

🧠 Marijuana Use & Schizophrenia Risk

• Heavy marijuana use in adolescence/young adulthood linked in multiple studies to higher rates of schizophrenia and psychosis.
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): “Young people who use marijuana frequently are more likely to develop schizophrenia later in life, especially those with genetic vulnerabilities.”
• NIDA summary: https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/marijuana-safe-effective-medicine

🌍 Wikipedia – List of Attacks on Primary Schools

• Ironically the clearest open-source list of worldwide school attacks.
• Lists Covenant (2023), Annunciation (2025), plus attacks in Serbia, Brazil, Germany, Bosnia,

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Transcript

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Two children are dead. After the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minnesota, the state was some of the strongest gun laws proved to be the weakest of all. Laws without enforcement are just words, today on the 10th man On August 27th, 2025. Minneapolis joined the short, tragic list of cities where primary school children have been massacred. At Annunciation Catholic school, during a morning mass, a shooter opened fire from outside the church windows into the pews, filled with students. Two children were killed, 18 wounded. The shooter ended the attack by killing himself. This wasn't in Texas or Florida or some state the media loves to point at from a distance. It happened in Minnesota. The very week Democrats were all gathered in Minneapolis for their national meeting, and while they were patting themselves on the back, children were bleeding in the pews just across town. And here's the bitter irony. That state's governor likes to brag about having the strongest gun laws. We'll come back to that Immediately after Annunciation, defenders of the trans movement, shouted, trans people aren't the problem. There are hundreds of school shootings every year, and only a couple involve trans people. Well, that line is everywhere. Social media threads, op-eds, even mainstream reporting. But here's the question, where do they get their figures? This"hundreds of mass shootings every year"? The answer is a website called Every Town For Gun Safety. It's the group that Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire owns and funds, and they're the group that writes half of the talking points that you'll hear on outlets like CNNI. Now, Every Town used to call their dataset a database of school shootings quote unquote. But after people like us exposed it, after our videos racked up millions of views and made people laugh at the absurdity, they quietly renamed it. And now it's more accurately called Gunfire on School Grounds. Well, somewhat more accurately. And if you wanna see for yourself. We'll put the link in the description because, uh, be warned, it's not that easy to find. They've kind of buried the page. And you can't just click and download their CSV file either like you used to. You've got to apply for access and get permission, so they've locked it down. Why? Because if you could open it up, you'd see how ridiculous the entries are. Michael Bloomberg paid for this. He wanted propaganda, so he got propaganda. Plain and simple. Here's what you find in Every Town, what they call school shootings. A principal committing suicide in his office. A school resource officer, that's the policeman as security, shooting a vandal in a parking lot, construction workers installing carpet one shooting the other, which is Workplace Violence, a drug deal gone bad, and shots fired on a sidewalk on Saturday night out in front of the school. A gang fight in the parking lot at a Friday night football game. Some really absurd ones. A dead body found at a school that had been abandoned even for years, and my own favorite hunters shooting at a deer on school property over the weekend. All of those count as school shootings. So these are the hundreds of school shootings that the media wave in your face. So when they say trans shooters are rare, well sure if you lump suicides, gang fights and deer hunters into the same bucket, but that's not truth. That's deliberate deception. So what actually counts? How many real attacks on primary schools during school hours targeting children have happened in America in the last two years? Two. Just two. Now that's two too many, but it's not hundreds and hundreds. Covenant School, Nashville, Tennessee. March 27th, 2023. An Annunciation Catholic school, Minneapolis, August 27th, 2025, both shooters, transgender. Now, that's not the clutter, and it's not a coincidence, it's a pattern. All the school shootings in the United States attacking primary school students, a hundred percent were by transgender perpetrators. Now I say in America, because don't let anyone tell you that this only happens in America. Sadly, it doesn't. And ironically, the best source for actual global primary school attacks is Wikipedia. Forbidden by teachers to use and mocked by all of us, but it's actually Wikipedia, not Bloomberg, not Every Town, not some ivory tower academic database, but Wikipedia. Because they're the only ones honest enough, perhaps because it's crowdsourced and subject to correction, to just list the cases. And what does Wikipedia show? Since Covenant in 2023, there have been nine attacks on primary schools outside of the us. Belgrade Serbia, a mass shooting au Brazil at a daycare Hatchet killings, Berlin, Germany. An elementary school stabbing Vic Bosnia. A teacher shot that one didn't involve, uh, the students, but we have one that does. Leon Jang China Six killed and one Wounded Dublin Ireland. Three children and a teacher stabbed. China, two killed and 10 injured. Zagreb, Croatia, one child, fatally stabbed, and six others wounded. And there's Finland, I'll talk about that in a minute. Uh, we're leaving out one that wasn't technically a public school, but the dance school in London. Three girls killed, uh, may of last year, and then Finland, not one, but two attacks. Uh, so one was at Ola, a, a shooting in last year, but in primary schools. The last primary school attack before Annunciation was in Finland. So here's the kicker about Finland that, uh, governor Tim Walz bragged in the October debates last year, the vice presidential debates about Minnesota's gun laws, and that said about the United States, we have school shootings and saying Finland doesn't have the problem. But they did the last school shooting anywhere had been in Finland in April. How does he get away with that? How come the news media, no one corrects him. They can say anything about the United States, no matter how outlandish or any other country, and get away with it. And we're, we're, we're sad that Finland had that. But now again, the last primary school attack before the one in Annunciation also was in Finland. Pretty close tie to Tim Walz, but no one's calling it out. So no violence is not uniquely American, and also guns are not the only weapon. Violence unfor unfortunately is human. The weapon changes, but the who and the motivations and the perversion do not. So back to America. What do the last two primary school shooters have in common? Well, they weren't kids, so this wasn't a high school. They weren't bullied students attacking their peers. They were adults. They stalked little children. They were suicidal. And that's key because trans and suicidal go together and they were trans. So here's the first problem and why we have to look at our political leadership. Under existing law, people with serious mental illness are already disqualified from buying firearms. That's why form 44 73 of the ATF, the form everyone has to fill out that leads to a background check before buying a firearm asks directly about mental health. And until very recently, gender dysphoria counted. The DSM of the, the, the psychiatrist use listed it as a mental disorder. The World Health Organization listed it as a mental disorder. It was considered a disorder. Then politics stepped in. The classification changed. Biology didn't change, suicide rates didn't change. Nothing about the danger changed except the politics. So let me ask you, they said it was a disorder. Now they say it, it isn't. Were they right then or are they right now? And what are the ramifications? Because if the old standard was correct, the Annunciation shooter was already disqualified once, but that wasn't the only red flag. There's another disqualifier, and this one is not about shifting definitions. It's black and white right there on the form today. Every gun buyer in America fills out the same federal form form 44 73, and question 21 F says, are you an unlawful user of or addicted to marijuana or any other controlled substance? And right underneath in bold print, it spells it out. The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under federal law. Regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside. In August, 2023, two years prior, Minnesota legalized recreational marijuana. Governor Tim Waltz bragged and proudly signed it into law. He held it up as progress, but legalization didn't change federal law, it only created a conflict. And once you legalize pot at the state level, more people openly use it, more dispensaries, more users, more employees. And under federal law, every single one of them is automatically ineligible to purchase a firearm. And the Annunciation shooter wasn't just a casual smoker, he was a heavy user. He worked in a marijuana dispensary. Everybody around him knew it. And that alone should have barred him from ever touching a gun. Oh, and it's not just the law, it's the science. For years, decades, psychiatrists have warned about the connection between heavy marijuana use in the young and onset of schizophrenia, paranoia, even violence. And let me be clear, I'm not necessarily talking about the retiree who takes CBD oil for arthritis or the middle aged user who takes the edge off once in a while, and those aren't the people planning school shootings. But here's the hard truth. The law doesn't make that distinction. The forum doesn't ask if you are a heavy user or a casual user. It doesn't ask if you're 19 years old working in a pot shop or 70 years old using CBD to sleep better. It just says marijuana is illegal under federal law and marijuana users are disqualified from buying guns, period. And if Democrats want to lecture the rest of us, that the law is the law, then it ought to be enforced here, most of all. And yet, when the story hit the news, what did we hear? The guns were legally purchased. They love that phrase. It's in every headline, every Chiron, every op-ed, because it makes you think we need still more laws. But the truth is simple. These guns were not legally purchased, not under federal law, not under the plain text of form 44 73. A heavy marijuana user lied three times on a federal form, and that's not legal. That's a felony. So when the media tell you the guns were legally purchased, what they really mean is the laws we already have weren't enforced. So here's where it all lands. Governor Tim Walz brags about strong gun laws. He brags about background checks and about red flag laws. He brags about legalizing pot. And he did a compare and contrast with us in Finland. But under his watch in his own state, a suicidal trans shooter who worked in a pot shop disqualified twice over by existing law bought three guns, lied on the forms and murdered children. Hunter Biden lied on the same form. He never killed anyone. He got prosecuted. In Minnesota under Walz, a shooter lied three times, bought guns and murdered children and Walz has nothing to say suddenly. Here's a bigger problem. When a governor signs a bill into law, it's not just a photo op, it's a grave responsibility. Walz signed recreational marijuana into law in August, 2023, what did he think would happen? Marijuana use went up predictably and under federal law, gun purchase applications from marijuana users should have gone down or rejections should have gone up. That's logic and math. That's what a functioning system would produce. So what did Walz do to make sure Minnesota's numbers reflected that reality? What safeguards did he put in place? What enforcement followed the legalization? The answer is obvious. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. And let's just put this in perspective. Remember Rick Snyder, the Republican governor of Michigan? He was prosecuted over the Flint water crisis. His connection was indirect. He was the governor, not the mayor, not the city council, and no one died. Now, compare that with Tim Walz. In Minnesota, under his watch, under the bills, he signed into law two children are dead after Annunciation. Dead because marijuana was legalized, gun applications weren't checked, and federal disqualifiers weren't enforced. That's a direct line of responsibility and yet Walz has faced nothing. No charges, no impeachment, no accountability at all. So I'll ask the obvious question. Why was Snyder ha hauled into court for indirect involvement in Flint where no one died while Walz walks free after a school massacre that leads it straight back to his own decisions? And here's an aside worth noting, you would think Democrat governors would leap at the chance to enforce this rule. Federal law already says if you smoke pot, you can't buy a gun. That's millions of people automatically disqualified. And let's be honest, pot smokers aren't exactly the group the gun lobby fights hardest for. So this would be low hanging fruit if they were serious. Walz, like every other governor who legalizes marijuana, why do they ignore it? Well, this tells you everything. Their laws aren't about safety, and they do care about the marijuana lobby because they're about politics. Not fewer illegal guns, but fewer legal guns in the hands of citizens who actually follow the rules. And this is the lesson. It isn't just about Tim Walz, it's the pattern. Democrats brag about passing the strongest gun laws in the country. They take victory laps, they use Bloomberg's rankings, like trophies. He's got a scoreboard. Minnesota ranks 14th among all, amongst all the states. And they build careers on saying, we've done more than anyone else to pass gun laws, not to make you safer. Because then they refuse to enforce the laws that already exist. They legalize pot while knowing federal law makes pot users ineligible to own guns. They pass background checks, but never check the backgrounds that matter. They let shooters lie on the forms. And then just demand more forms. And it's not just Minnesota. Every state that legalizes marijuana has the same problem. Federal law hasn't changed. Pot is still illegal under federal statute, which means every pot smoker in Colorado, California, Michigan, Illinois, New York, and now Minnesota is automatically disqualified from buying a gun. And that's not my interpretation. That's what the form says in black and white. And every governor who legalized marijuana without putting enforcement behind that form is guaranteeing more illegal gun purchases. They're doing what Walz did, celebrating new laws while ignoring the ones already on the books. Then when people die, they point fingers. They wave Every Town's fake database. And the demand still more restrictions on the rights of people who follow the law. That's not protection. That's negligence. Negligence that costs lives. Gun control didn't stop. Covenant gun control didn't stop Annunciation. Gun control doesn't save lives. It always costs lives. And as we'll keep showing. The very people who bragged the loudest about strong gun laws are the ones under whom those laws fail the most. This has been the 10th man, where one voice against nine is often the only voice telling you the truth. Oh.