Overview

• During Fox News’ Outnumbered, Trey Gowdy called for a conversation about keeping firearms from potential shooters and cited straw purchases, gun stores, and private sales as avenues to examine.
• He said mass shooters are almost always young white males and described churches and schools as soft targets, comments that prompted on-air pushback from a co-host.
• Online reaction from MAGA-aligned figures and some Fox viewers included denunciations and calls for Gowdy’s firing over perceived support for gun control.
• Minneapolis police said a gunman opened fire through church windows during Mass at Annunciation Catholic School, killing two children, ages 8 and 10, and injuring 17 people, including 14 children.
• Authorities identified the suspect as 23-year-old Robin Westman, who died by suicide, and investigators are probing his motive and how he obtained the rifle, shotgun, and pistol used.