Fox News Host's Comments Under Fire
At one time, Trey Gowdy was the sharp-tongued, no-nonsense prosecutor in Congress who grilled bureaucrats with surgical precision. He was the man conservatives cheered as he cut through spin and stonewalling like a hot knife through butter during the Benghazi hearings. But the man who showed up on Fox News this week? He looked more like a pundit from MSNBC than a former Republican congressman with a backbone forged in fire.
The occasion? A response to the tragic shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, where Robert “Robin” Westman—a biological male who identified as a female—killed two children and injured 17 more during a heinous, calculated attack. It was an act of pure evil, and one that’s left the country stunned.
WTF? Fox News’ Trey Gowdy suggests GUN CONTROL after today’s tragedy in Minneapolis.
“How many school sho*tings before we're going to have a conversation about keeping firearms out of…it's always a young white male, almost always."
Shameful.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 27, 2025
And yet, Gowdy’s reaction was...a call for a national debate on the Second Amendment? Really? That’s where we’re at now?
He somberly asked how many more of these tragedies we must endure before we start a conversation about gun rights. He even went so far as to say, “It’s always a young white male, almost always.” That’s not just a generalization—it’s a demonstrable error. It’s also an echo. An echo of legacy media talking points that rely on race-based narratives rather than facts.
Let’s rewind. Robert “Robin” Westman was not only transgender but also left a disturbing ideological breadcrumb trail in the form of writings on his weapons and his so-called “manifesto.” Among the phrases scrawled: “Kill Trump Now,” “Israel must fall,” and “Release the list”—a grab bag of anti-conservative, anti-Semitic, and conspiratorial slogans. He even listed the names of previous mass shooters like badges of honor. If this were any other ideological affiliation—particularly a right-wing one—you can be sure the media would have blasted it from every headline.
But here, we get euphemisms. Obfuscation. And now, bizarrely, the former conservative firebrand Trey Gowdy calling for gun control-lite messaging in the middle of it all, seemingly glossing over the most critical elements: identity, ideology, and intent.
Minnesota already has them.
So sick of this crap. https://t.co/VHvq2u68rm
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 27, 2025
Let’s not pretend this is just another instance of random violence with no ideological roots. This is not a faceless, statistics-only tragedy. Westman targeted a Catholic school. He carried a political message—however deranged—and he planned his violence down to the timing. This wasn’t an accident. It was a statement.
What Gowdy should’ve said was simple: we must understand who these killers are and what’s radicalizing them. Instead, we got a foggy, scripted monologue about gun access and behavioral profiling.
It’s worth asking why so many of these shooters in recent years have fit a certain pattern that the media won’t touch: young, isolated, often mentally unstable, and yes—occasionally identifying as transgender. That’s not a political attack. That’s a data point. Ignoring it doesn’t make the danger go away. It makes us blind to it.