I won’t say his name. I won’t say his name because that’s what the 23-year-old monster who opened fire on innocent children at Annunciation Catholic Church during a Mass in Minneapolis on Wednesday wanted.

I won’t say his name because his final gasp—his suicidal wish—was to take the life or do bodily harm to as many helpless, innocent children as possible before taking his own. Or have the police take it for him.

I won’t say his name—either of his names—even as some members of the media grapple with the gender identity of this monster. I won’t say his old name, or his new one.

Much will be written trying to comprehend why this hate-filled monster did what he did. But it won’t help. The nature of the evil that brought darkness and death into that Catholic church this week is unexplainable.

Changing our gun laws won’t stop this kind of evil from darkening our public places and sacred spaces, and tightening up our mental health laws won’t either.

But has anyone at the highest ranks of media and journalism pondered the notion that what these deranged monsters want is to leave this Earth in a blaze of glory, with the world focused........

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