“Tennessee judge blocks release of trans school shooter Audrey Hale’s manifesto, writings—cites copyright claims of victims’ families,” The Post Millennial reported Friday. “What has been leaked to the public shows that Hale had fantasies of killing her family and shared this information with a therapist.”

“Hale’s family claimed they assigned (parents from the Covenant School, the Covenant School, and the Covenant Presbyterian Church) the copyright of her written materials,” the report notes. And they don’t want them released.

Why? And what effect might the church’s “long history of support for gun control legislation” have to do with that decision?

Concerted efforts by law enforcement and the FBI to keep the contents of the monstrous mass child-murdering transsexual’s journal from public scrutiny have heretofore been assumed by many challenging the imposed secrecy to be largely political—an attempt to keep a lid on negative public presumptions about the mental fitness and emotional volatility of people who reject and replace “gender assignment” with what they subjectively “identify as.”

With the Democrat Party pledging to “end… harmful conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth, and [give] full legal protection for transgender Americans,” with public teachers unions and school administrations subjecting K-12 children to aggressive indoctrination programs, including keeping parents out of the loop, with “blue states” passing laws for and “transitioning” without parental consent, with women’s sports being taken over by athletes with XY chromosomes, with children’s entertainment… Western societal changes have taken place so rapidly, is it any wonder much of “traditional” citizenry is feeling like something isn’t right?

The prevailing narrative, the one politicians and the media have a vested interest in promoting, is that the LGBTQ community is victimized by violence in epidemic proportions, and always eager to join in a good blood dance, we see the prohibitionists, like Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown, exploiting supposed “hate-fueled violence” for all it’s worth. Disregard that it’s impossible to tell from their claims how many victims were murdered by bigoted heterosexual males whose motive was hate, as opposed to how many were chronically engaged in high-risk and criminal behaviors—the generality has been made for those who won’t look any deeper when they hear some Democrat gun-grabber introduce a bill to “Disarm Hate.”

This is all while the mainstream press ignores:

Meanwhile, innumerable headlines like “Trans community fears backlash after attack by Audrey Hale” do nothing but perpetuate paranoia, and give “authorities” an excuse to withhold information the public has every right to know—especially considering that lawmakers will be exploiting what little we do know to advance and impose their agendas, and to perpetuate the Democrat myth promulgated by apparatchiks in the DHS, FBI and Justice Department that white nationalist Christian males are the “greatest threat.”

Speaking as one who identifies as that, if I and men like me were truly violent and hateful, we’d know by now. In fact, despite being the most heavily armed civilian demographic on the planet, there is no more peaceable population than the millions of members of “gun groups” like NRA, GOA, SAF, NAGR, NSSF, and all the state groups and affiliates—in terms of both practically nonexistent rates and numbers.

And we’ve always been that way. Long before it was fashionable to the point of becoming de facto mandatory, I had a hand in writing this “Inclusion Statement” for our old GunTruths.com website:

GunTruths supports the right of all peaceable people to keep and bear arms.

Your age, race, sex, religion, political party, sexual orientation, or national origin are of no concern to us. Anyone who requires you to disarm is not your friend, and not our friend.

Only when all peaceable citizens can freely exercise their inalienable right to self defense, and their right to keep and bear arms, will we attain the ultimate safeguard for our mutual protection, as individuals, as members of a community, and as citizens of the Republic.

As things stand now, much of the information coming out is courtesy of the brave, real journalism of The Tennessee Star, which is risking severe legal consequences for making public leaked information (perhaps an indicator that not all the parents support the calculated “copyright” blackout).

Meanwhile, we learn things like Hale used federal Pell grants to buy her guns. And that Hale was diagnosed with five mental disorders and through a series of medications to try and find one that would work.

One thing is evident:  Her parents knew she posed a serious danger to herself, to them, and to others.

We know the motives the government and the media have for not releasing all the information. It’s hardly out of line to presume the parents’ motive is one of protecting themselves from liability and from being exposed for what they knew and what they failed to do about it.

About David Codrea:

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.