The Shooting Gallery: Three 9-year-old children and three adults were killed yesterday morning in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville. The head of the school and the daughter of the church’s pastor were among the dead. The shooter, a 28-year-old white transgender woman, was killed in an exchange of gunfire by the police at the scene.

  Security video shows Audrey Hale blasting out the front doors, entering the school and stalking the halls. She carried two assault rifles and a pistol. The police said their officers arrived withing 15 minutes and shot Hale on the second floor of the building.

  John Drake, the chief of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, said Hale was “at one point a student” at the school. Drake said Hale was transgender, referring to the shooter as “she” and “her,” although Hale had identified as male only a few months ago. Drake said Hale left behind a manifesto and a map of the school.

  CNN reports that before the shooting Hale texted a friend saying, “One day this will make more sense. I’ve left behind more than enough evidence behind. But something bad is about to happen.”

  After the shooting, little children were seen being led hand in hand out of the school across a street. On a typical day the Covenant School has about 200 students and 40-50 staff members on the premises.

  An outraged President Biden within hours called for a federal ban on assault weapons and said, “We have to do more to stop gun violence. It’s ripping our communities apart, ripping the soul of this nation.” Biden said, “We have to do more to protect our schools so they’re not turned into prisons,” he said.

  Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “How many more children have to be murdered before Republicans in Congress step up and act to pass the assault weapons ban, to close loopholes in our background check systems or to require safe storage of guns?”

Israel Turmoil: Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s has put on hold his plan to weaken the country’s judiciary as widespread strikes and protests brought the country to a standstill. The legislation will be delayed until the next legislative term, after the Passover recess in April.

  The announcement came as protesters battled riot police again yesterday. The cops responded in some confrontations with fire hoses. The proposed changes would give the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, and the parties forming the majority, control over the judiciary. The plan would put the selection of judges in the hands of politicians and allow the parliament to overturn Supreme Court decisions. 

  The package of judicial overhaul bills would give the government a majority of the seats on the judicial appointment committee. An “override clause” would give the parliament power to pass laws previously ruled invalid by the court, essentially overriding Supreme Court decisions.

  A disapproving statement from the US national security council said, “Democratic societies are strengthened by checks and balances, and fundamental changes to a democratic system should be pursued with the broadest possible base of popular support.” 

In the Fox House: A Fox News producer who sued the network claiming she was pressured to give false testimony in the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit was fired last Friday. And is now offering herself as a witness against her former employers. 

  Abby Grossberg says in an amended New York complaint that Fox lawyers wanted her to downplay the importance of ratings in news coverage decisions and that she felt “pressured to respond with a generic ‘I do not recall’” even to questions when she did have an answer, thereby “fraudulently inducing her to deny facts she knew to exist.”

  Dominion is suing Fox in a $1.6 billion defamation suit after the network repeatedly aired false claims that the voting systems company helped rig the 2020 election against Donald Trump.

  Fox fired Grossberg claiming she acted “contrary to express instructions of the Company” by disclosing allegedly privileged information in Dominion’s lawsuit.

March Madness: South Carolina beat second-seeded Maryland, 86-75 last night to make the Final Four in women’s NCAA basketball for the third year in a row. Aliyah Boston led the scoring with 22 points, 10 rebounds, and 5 assists. 

  South Carolina faces No. 2 seed Iowa on Friday in Dallas. Virginia Tech beat Ohio State 84-74 to meet LSU also on Friday.

 The Spin Rack: At least 39 people are dead this morning and 29 injured after fire broke out at a migrant detention facility close to the US-Mexico border. — The Iowa senate passed a law 22-12 making it a felony for doctors to prescribe  gender affirming medications for transgender youth in that state, punishable by up to 10 years in prison if convicted. The governor might let it become law despite objections that the legislature has entered the medical examination room. — Britain’s Prince Harry is back home to appear as a claimant in a privacy violation lawsuit against the publishers of The Daily Mail, Mail Online, and Mail on Sunday. Harry has joined other prominent figures including singer Elton John and actress Elizabeth Hurley in charging that the newspapers used illegal methods to gather information. — French workers are still striking in protest over the change in retirement age from 62 to 64. Garbage is piling up in the streets and today demonstrators blocked roads and the tracks of a central Parisian train station.

Below the Fold: Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was quick to blame the Nashville shooting on gender affirming medications and called for more guns.

  She wrote, “How much hormones like testosterone and medications for mental illness was the transgender Nashville school shooter taking?”

  Well, since Hale was transitioning from male to female a doctor probably was not prescribing testosterone … or guns.

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