Stephen King Says Minneapolis Shooter Being Trans Is ‘Besides The Point,’ Blames Guns

Notorious left-wing author Stephen King is claiming that guns are to blame for the horrific shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, not the fact that the shooter identified as transgender.

King made his thoughts known in a reply he wrote to Elon Musk on X. “Whether he was transgender is beside the point. The point is he had a gun,” the author insisted.

Whether he was transgender is beside the point. The point is he had a gun. https://t.co/erCYw4JNCz

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) August 27, 2025

“There is a clear pattern here,” Musk said in reply to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s post identifying the shooter as a 23-year-old man claiming to be transgender. “This deranged monster targeted our most vulnerable: young children praying in their first morning Mass of the school year. This deeply sick murderer scrawled the words ‘For the Children’ and ‘Where is your God?’ and ‘Kill Donald Trump’ on a rifle magazine,” Noem wrote in her post.

King’s followers disagreed with his assessment.

“He was mentally ill and had a gun[,] dumbass. Had he been diagnosed he wouldn’t have had a gun but d***heads like you celebrate it rather than acknowledge they need treatment,” one person wrote.

“Stephen, the gun didn’t walk into a Christian school on its own. A trans-identified man did,” another popular reply said. “That’s the point. You’ll name the tool but never the ideology, because acknowledging the pattern exposes the deviance you and your party defend.”

“Stop blaming inanimate objects for the wicked choices of people you refuse to hold accountable,” the commenter continued.

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The shooter in the tragedy, identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman (previously Robert Westman), fired “dozens of rounds” into Annunciation Church as students were attending mass on Wednesday morning. An 8-year-old and a 10-year-old died, and 14 children and 3 adults were injured. Westman then turned the gun on himself.

Westman is the latest in a series of transgender-identifying people who have committed school shootings, including the STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting in 2019 and the Covenant School Shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2023.

Westman wrote in a journal entry that he was “tired of being trans” and regretted that he “brain-washed” himself. His personal writings also included references to assassinating President Donald Trump and hatred for Jews. The deceased shooter also wrote that killing “children of innocent civilians” would give him “the most joy.”