The fight over obtaining the murderer's diary also received news attention.
Five days after the release of the diary, with the exception of the New York Post, which is a national news outlet, the news coverage was limited to seven other conservative outlets such as The Daily Wire and Newsbusters.
The school murderer was transgender, and her diary reveals a suicidal left-winger who hated whites.
The FBI expressed concern that the release of the diary from a transgender person could lead the public "To dismiss the attacker as mentally ill," which would "Further permeate the false narrative that the majority of attackers are mentally ill." It worried that the diary could "Potentially inflam[e] the public." The FBI worried that releasing the diary could have "Unintended consequences for the segment of the population more vulnerable or open to conspiracy theories, which will undoubtedly abound." Self-professed "Experts," the FBI fears, will "Proffer their perspectives" in the press.
As is very typical of mass public shooters, the murderer was suicidal: "A terrible feeling to know I am nothing of the gender I was born of. I am the most unhappy boy alive. I wish to be dead." She was also on the anti-anxiety drug Buspirone, whose potential side effects include "Abnormal dreams, outbursts of anger, tremors, and physical weakness." The FBI worries that the diary will help create a link in people's minds between mass murderers and mental illness, but suicidal people presumably have some mental health problems.
The FBI acknowledged that Americans want to "Understand what led to such tragic events." But the FBI argued these statements "Seldom provide the answers" and the diaries and manifestos were "Often misleading." Yet the national media appears completely uninterested in why these murderers pick the targets they do and how their motivation to get media coverage is important in understanding how to stop these attacks.
The diary showed that the murderer had picked the Covenant School because it was a soft, unprotected target.
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