There’s been a shooting at a Christian school in Wisconsin [see UPDATE below]
RIP.
I feel a weary sorrow every time I hear about a school shooting. They seem to come with regularity, and although they are all slightly different, they all seem somewhat similar as well.
Initial reports were that five were killed, including the shooter, and five injured. But a more recent article says the dead are a teacher and the shooter, who was a teenage student at the school, and six are injured (two of them in critical condition).
We don’t know many details at this point. It sounds to me – and this is a complete and total guess – that the shooter may have committed suicide after killing the teacher and injuring the students.
And now I see this confusing report that a teacher and a teenage student were killed in addition to the shooter, and that the shooter killed himself but the police aren’t revealing the student’s gender at this time. And yet the article uses the term “himself.” Which makes the situation seem to resemble that of the Nashville trans shooter Audrey Hale. But I have no idea what the true story is.
UPDATE 9:30 PM:
I can report that the deceased mass shooter at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisc. is a 15-year-old girl named Natalie Lynn Rupnow.
She carried out the mass shooting in the school library, according to a source. She did not identify as trans.
The teen girl used the name “Sam” online and the username “crossixir.” 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.) …
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.
The Columbine killers expressed hatred for just about everyone, and most of their victims were killed in the school library. In addition, they died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
RIP, and condolences to the families affected.
It’s too early to say what the situation was, and early reports are often wrong.
With no claim about accuracy or how up-to-date it is.Townhall: Gender of the WI Christian School Shooter Has Been Revealed.
According to this, a female was the shooter.
Unusual for a female shooter, but not the first. Will it come out that she believes she is a he, and was bullied?
Are they hiding the sex: male or female, or gender (i.e. sex-correlated attributes): masculine or feminine, of the abortionist, homicidal lunatic? Perhaps the abortionist is in the transgender spectrum (e.g. homosexual).
Bad enough that the media creates false narratives for us, we don’t need to create them for ourselves while we’re waiting for the official fake one.
Starting to look like another girl, identifying as ‘non-binary’, with a history of fascination with school shooters, and several social media accounts that feature this kind of subject matter.
It would do a world of good, for there to be a commitment to transparency with these kinds of things, so that parents and school administrators and – dare I say it – law enforcement could more quickly realize they need to act together to preempt such events, instead of admitting later that ‘something-somebody’ was ‘on the radar’. As with the Tennessee school shooting event, where the trans-girl’s manifesto was squelched for so many months, for no good reason.
This only serves to stifle discussions that must be had. A lot of things might be ‘on the radar’. The key is taking action on the short list. So far, society hasn’t learned this skill, or been allowed to develop it.
Niketas:
“Sounds like it might be this” or “I wonder if it might be that” is not creating a false narrative. It’s speculating, and not presenting the speculation as a fact.
Neo: agree with your comment to Niketas. Our language contains a subjunctive mood —“If X were so, then maybe Y would seem possible…”. That is IMHO a rich “channel” in which people can (in good faith) offer speculation without commandeering the discourse into literal this or that.
@Owen:people can (in good faith) offer speculation without commandeering the discourse
By doing so, most likely they will start looking for things to confirm their speculations, because they already have a narrative to slot potential facts into. I get that people on some level enjoy speculating about what the facts will eventually show, and that quietly waiting for facts to come out is dull by comparison, but I do think the cons of speculating outweigh the pros.
My guess is that this is happening as we speak with the drone flight story: first speculation, then people expecting to see mysterious drones, speculating about what the drones might be doing, looking for drones in the places they speculate they may find them, and then people start reporting all kinds of things as a “drone” sighting, and it may be very difficult to ever get to the truth. If it turns out that there was only, say, three real drones doing something very mundane, lots of people will refuse to believe it because so many more were reported doing all kinds of crazy stuff.
This was posted to x. Includes alleged photos of the shooter.
https://x.com/Slatzism/status/1868795614491800032
I am going to wait to find out what Madison PD, and Dane County SO find out.
I understand the horror over this shooting. Evolving reports show a very troubled young woman.
Why did police, assisted, it seems, by FBI, find it necessary to use flashbangs and break down the door of the shooter’s home to search it? Were they threatened by a family member? Reports don’t say so.
Kate:
F’en Bunch of Idiots
Well, they were probablly Christian, after all. Can’t be too careful. (sarc)
Excessive use of force by police in searches has been an ongoing problem. They needed to search the home, no question.
Like clockwork!
Kate:
Agree, especially under the Brandon junta.
How’s this?
Someone under acute emotional stress–self-induced or by circumstance–can spew the hurt onto social media.
Under the Freudian safety-valve model, if it were not for social media, the person would have to spill it to the real world where somebody including parents of school folks might take note of it.
It doesn’t take much, in the early teens, to put a kid in the state that there’s no way out of the issue. And that having been raised in what is, materially, the situation where the physical world has the fewest sharp edges in history metaphorically speaking, the capacity for dealing is not exercised.
And if social media derails the usual methods of finding and getting help, even if not purposely, maybe we have an issue here.
If a counselor, or a parent, had spent sufficient time letting this kid spew, and maybe been able to fix one or another issue, possibly it would have been resolved as in earlier times.