MINNEAPOLIS — As two schoolchildren lay dead and another 15 battled the wounds of a shooter who fired at least 116 rifle rounds into a Catholic school’s church during Mass in Minneapolis on Wednesday, the nation’s leaders were left searching for answers and found themselves with starkly different perspectives on how to prevent the regular occurrences of mass shootings in the United States.

In Washington, the White House, senior administration officials and top law enforcement leaders zeroed in on the shooter’s apparent gender identity as a transgender woman, the rhetoric of some Democrats in the wake of the violence and the “potential contribution” of antidepressants in sparking the shooter to horrific violence, as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday

See Full Page