Fox News host Trey Gowdy on August 26, 2025

A Fox News host is blaming mass shootings on access to guns and young white males, after the latest school shooting that left two young children dead and seventeen others injured during mass at a Catholic school. The gunman reportedly was in his early 20s and is now deceased.

“Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the shooter — armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol — approached the side of the church and shot dozens of rounds through the windows toward the children sitting in the pews during Mass at the Annunciation Catholic School. Police believe the gunman then killed himself,” the Associated Press reported. “The children who died were 8 and 10, and 14 other kids were among the wounded, the [police] chief said. Dozens of youngsters were inside.”

Trey Gowdy, a Republican former U.S. Congressman from South Carolina and a former federal prosecutor, stunned his co-host while speaking live on Fox News (video below).

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“Our system is reactive,” Gowdy lamented. “Something bad happens, we react to it. And what people are crying for now is, ‘How can we prevent this? How can we stop it?’ And the only way to stop it is to identify the shooter ahead of time or keep the weapons out of their hands.”

“And so we’re going to have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. I mean, how many school shootings does it take before we’re going to have a conversation about keeping firearms out?”

“It’s always a young white male, almost always. I mean, did anyone this morning think, ‘I wonder if that was a female?’ Did any of y’all think that? I mean, there’s been one school shooting involving a female. One. Tennessee. But other than that, it is usually young white males.”

His co-host, off camera, protested.

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“Don’t we have laws on the books for these types of situations?” she asked.

“Like what?” he pressed.

“Well, well murder is what happened, and maybe the why is that you had a 10-year-old an eight-year-old praying in the pews. Were they targeted for their faith?” she asked.

Gowdy is not a liberal. On Tuesday, appearing on Fox News’ “Hannity,” he declared the left’s politics are “absolutely idiotic.”

Watch the video below or at this link.

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