School shooters are not victims

Screenshot of The Covenant School’s security surveillance video of shooter.

 By Shane Vander Hart

The six dead at The Covenant School and their families, not the transgender shooter, are the victims of this school shooting in Nashville.

I learned during a break at work on Monday about the school shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville—three 9-year-olds and three school staff members dead as a result.

I am saddened by the loss of life and horrified by the carnage one can bring upon children. It is simply evil.

I typically don't use the names of shooters when I write about mass shootings, but I have to make a brief exception for this article.

This school shooting represents the first perpetrated by a woman. The shooter, Audrey Hale, 28, recently identified as a transgender man and adopted the name 'Aiden."

News articles have described Hale as "emotionally disturbed," which I have no doubt that is true.

The Daily Mail portrayed Hale as a victim because her Christian parents rejected her.

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See also:

• The wickedness of blaming Christian Victims | The Domain for Truth (wordpress.com)