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Another fatal school shooting rocked the nation today, reportedly carried out by a teenage girl, reviving concerns about the mental instability of our nation’s youth and sparking the usual calls from the Left for stricter gun control.
This is an ongoing story and so information is still coming in and being confirmed, of course, but at the time of this writing, here is what we know: just before 11 a.m. local time, police were called to respond to a shooting at the library of the K-12 Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, which has about 200 students. At the scene, police discovered the bodies of a murdered teacher and a student. At least six others had been wounded, two with life-threatening injuries. Police also recovered a 9mm handgun and found that the shooter had already taken her own life.
Immediately in the wake of the shooting, misinformation and fake news abounded on the internet, of course, but eventually a reputable voice – bestselling citizen journalist Andy Ngo – posted that the deceased mass shooter was a 15-year-old girl (the AP incorrectly reported she was 17) named Natalie Lynn Rupnow. He noted that she did not identify as trans, which shut down a great deal of kneejerk speculation on social media.
Rupnow apparently went by the name “Sam” or “Samantha,” Ngo reported. Disturbingly,
She had an extensive online obsession with school shooters and death, particularly the 1999 Columbine High School shooting. Rupnow was a big fan of the KMFDM rock band, which was also referenced by one of the Columbine shooters. (She often wore the shirt of the band.) Rupnow’s online friends identified the X account, which purported to belong to the shooter, soon after news broke of the shooting. The account’s last post is of an “okay” hand symbol in the school’s bathroom by the library minutes before the shooting.
Ngo added,
A purported “sneak peek” of her manifesto was posted on her Discord account, where she discussed a desire to kill all males in a rant inspired by fringe extremist online culture. A screenshot was posted on X by a person who was her Discord friend. The account also posted a mirror selfie photo of Rupnow. Rupnow has a long, disturbing online history of being obsessed with school shooters and death. She used the moniker “crossixir” online. Rupnow’s Cash App account is a picture of the Columbine shooters. She had an account on “Watch People Die” where she commented on the videos. Her Spotify playlists featured themes of s—icide and killings.
The illiterate statement that Ngo referred to as Rupnow’s “manifesto” reads, in part, that “women are the only hope for this wretched world” and that men “can’t be redeemed or reformed”:
Theyre a fucking scourge upon the earth. The only solution is to total exterminate them and every foid who worships these fucking parasites. Every single male must be wiped out, from babies to the elderly. Only then will women be free to create a new world. ill be a pioneer, ill be the first to take the first step, i don’t care if theyr fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, teachers, police, and especially niggers or politicians. ive been craving to kill them all. This is my mission, only when their parasitic sludge has been expunged from the earth is when Then the world will be clean and women can start over. It’s the only way, in approximately 10 mintue si should be dead, its strange but it feels good.
Apparently there are pages more of this radical feminist screed, in which she stated that she felt unloved by her “scum” family and decided to kill herself a long time ago, but felt committing a shooting was “better for evolution rather than just one stupid boring suicide.”
There is no doubt much more to be unearthed, but if what we have learned is true, it tells a story of a deeply disturbed teen who was able to feed her dark obsession in the sickest corners of the internet. But guns and their availability are already being targeted as the problem, when in fact the solution lies in deep national self-reflection and conversation about the war being waged on our youth by a satanic agenda to topple the pillars that once sustained our civilization: love of God, love of family, and love of country.
The Democrat Party, which has spent the last week celebrating the ambush shooting murder of a healthcare CEO and lusting for more of the same, predictably renewed their calls for stricter gun control. The White House released a statement purportedly from President Joe Biden (remember him?) declaring, “From Newtown to Uvalde, Parkland to Madison, to so many other shootings that don’t receive attention – it is unacceptable that we are unable to protect our children from this scourge of gun violence. We cannot continue to accept it as normal. Every child deserves to feel safe in their [sic] classroom.”
But as conservative commentator Dana Loesch observed, “Guns are banned on school grounds and have been for 30 years. Juveniles are not allowed to legally buy or carry handguns. No law would have changed this.” The shooter Rupnow herself, in her “manifesto,” reportedly stated that she got access to her weapon(s) through “lies, manipulation, and my father’s stupidity.”
Democrat calls for gun control are not actually about addressing reality or protecting children anyway, but about dismantling the Second Amendment and disarming the populace. If Democrats truly cared about protecting children from gun crime, why do they never beat their breasts about the children shot to death every day in urban gang violence?
Democrats vent their faux outrage only after a mass shooting, especially at a school, because those are easier to exploit emotionally and for national attention. What about the 8-year-old Chicago girl killed (along with two other kids wounded) in a gang shooting last April? Not a peep from the Left about gun control after that or any other of innumerable examples. What about the aforementioned CEO, gunned down from behind by an assassin with a silenced pistol? Not only have there been no calls for gun control, but the murderer is being canonized as a heroic Leftist icon for taking out a hated capitalist.
Democrats have one solution for gun violence – the banning of guns, for one reason only: it furthers their power-hungry agenda. Meanwhile the real reasons children are shooting other children in this country will go unaddressed by the party that is largely responsible for the demonic culture that is breeding such horrors.
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