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School shooting in Madison leaves two dead, six injured before shooter’s suicide.

December 19, 2024

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SCHOOL SHOOTING

Shooting in Madison

Today’s Top Story: A school shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, left two dead, six injured, and the teenage shooter, 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot, as police search for a motive and details on how she obtained the weapon.

Reporting from the Right: Madison, Wisconsin, school shooting suspect identified as 15-year-old girl (Fox News)

Reporting from the Left: Small, tight-knit community in Madison, Wisconsin, reeling from school shooting as authorities continue to seek answers (CNN)

RIGHT-LEANING SENTIMENT

Combination of Factors

The Top Argument From The Right: Wisconsin Christian school shooter’s motive was ‘a combination of factors’, Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner: “Wisconsin authorities offered limited insight into the motivation behind Natalie Rupnow’s murderous rampage at Abundant Life Christian School. Rupnow shot and killed a teacher and fellow student Monday at the Wisconsin school. The 15-year-old shooter injured six others before fatally shooting herself. Two of those injured remain in critical condition. Noting that there are ‘always signs of a school shooting before it occurred,’ Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said Tuesday that authorities are still looking into Rupnow’s online activity leading up to the incident and are trying to determine whether she was bullied. ‘Identifying a motive is our top priority, but at this time, it appears that the motive is a combination of factors,’ Barnes concluded. The chief did indicate that Rupnow did not appear to specifically target anyone at the school. ‘Everyone was put in equal danger,’ he said. Barnes also addressed an online document that may have been written by Rupnow that is circulating online. If authentic, the document could provide critical insight into her motivation. Titled ‘War Against Humanity,’ the text states the author had “grown to hate people and society” and called their parents ‘scum.’”

LEFT-LEANING SENTIMENT

This is Who We Are

The Top Argument From The Left: After another school shooting, let’s face the facts. This is who we are., Mike Littwin, Colorado Sun: “I don’t expect this latest school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, to make much difference, except to those personally traumatized by it, to those who live in the affected community and to those of us who just can’t accept what amounts to our nation’s chronic indifference to chronic gun violence. Most people, being human, were certainly saddened to hear of the school shooting, and yet indifference, even more sadly, is the constant sum of our reaction to children lying dead in their schools. ‘I think we can all agree that enough is enough,’ Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said Monday in a news briefing on the shooting. But, in truth, we don’t all agree. If we all agreed, enough would be enough. But there is not enough in America. There aren’t enough guns. There aren’t enough gun-related deaths, including homicides and suicides. There aren’t enough mass shootings. There aren’t enough school shootings. It doesn’t even seem to matter — not enough, anyway — that gun violence is the primary cause of death for children under the age of 18. 
 We have decided this is who we are. 
we pretend that mental health is the real issue with gun violence and not the limitless proliferation of guns and the easy access that even teenagers have to those guns.”

Honorable Mention #2: Police review reported manifesto of girl who killed two at Wisconsin school, Edward Helmore, The Guardian

FLAG THIS

School Shootings in 2024

Two major sources track U.S. school shootings but use different criteria, leading to significant discrepancies:

  • The K-12 School Shooting Database includes any incident involving a gun on school property, counting 325 shootings in 2024 so far and 346 in 2023.

  • EducationWeek uses stricter criteria, recording 39 shootings in 2024 and 37 in 2023.

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Paine’s Power Play, Mind Over Merlot, Bonus Bone

On this day in 1776, Thomas Paine published the essay "The American Crisis," a shot in the arm to Patriots during a particularly difficult stretch of the American Revolution. In it, he wrote: "These are the times that try men’s souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

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