An Ex-FBI Agent’s Warning to Parents About Nihilists Like Robin Westman

Robin Westman’s ex-classmate says there were ‘red flags’ in the shooter’s behavior

An Ex-FBI Agent’s Warning to Parents About Nihilists Like Robin Westman

As an FBI agent for nearly 20 years, Pat McMonigle investigated national security crimes, was a hostage negotiator and Joint Terrorism Task Force coordinator, trained dozens of other special agents, and was deployed three times to war zones overseas. But it was his investigation of an online cult fueled by an insidious, unspeakably evil ideology that led to the end of his law enforcement career.That ideology is called 764, an online neo-Nazi gro…

Robin Westman and the unstoppable tide of 'slop violence'

On Wednesday, doing my laundry, I decided to turn on the TV for the first time in decades. Breaking news: a school shooting in Minnesota. It’s been years since a story like this made me cry. How could you cry at every mention of gun violence when you live in a place like the Midwest? I have been aware of gun violence in schools since I was a child myself. I remember first hearing about a school shooting when I was six years old. A little boy had…