WI School Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, Several Injured with Life-Threatening Injuries

The nation was horrified this week to hear of yet another school shooting, this time in Wisconsin.

Early reports had two people, a student and teacher, as having been killed, along with the alleged shooter.

Early reports have identified the shooter as a 15-year-old female student.

Misinformation Flying

The shooting had just been reported when the misinformation started to fly.

The first post I saw was someone who identified the shooter as a 17-year-old transgender, but that was obviously false.

The rumors only grew louder after former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) responded to a Biden gun control post, stating, “What about trans control instead?”

Police have now identified the shooter as 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, and there has not been any information about her sexual orientation at this point.

When Madison Police Department Chief Shon Barnes was asked about the reports of the shooter being trans, he responded, “I don’t know whether Natalie was transgender or not. And quite frankly, I don’t think that’s important at all.

“I don’t think whatever happened today has anything to do with how she or he or they may want to identify.”

The shooter may eventually be found to be a trans child, but let’s not jump the gun here until we know all the facts.

Barnes later added, "Every child, every person in that building is a victim and will be a victim forever. We need to figure out and try to piece together what exactly happened."

Police stated that Rupnow opened fire at the Abundant Life Christian School, a private school, in Madison, WI.

She reportedly used a handgun in the shooting, eventually turning the gun on herself before police arrived.

Her father is reportedly fully cooperating with police in the investigation.

As noted above, Democrats, including Joe Biden, immediately started pushing for more gun control laws, but it is already illegal for teens to purchase weapons, so there is no law that would have prevented this shooting.

According to local authorities, they do not believe the school has a resource officer, nor does it use metal detectors.

Speaker Mike Johnson responded to the shooting, posting, "Our hearts go out today to the students and faculty of the Abundant Life Christian School. The violence in our culture is disturbing, and it must be dealt with. We are praying for the families of those who lost their lives and the entire Madison community.”

We really need to do more than thoughts and prayers, though, and I am not speaking about additional gun legislation because many of the laws we have on the books already are not even enforced.

What we need to do is get inside the heads of these kids to figure out why there are so many of them snapping to the point that the answer to their problems becomes killing their fellow students and teachers rather than seeking help.

I don’t mean to sound heartless here, but coddling this generation has clearly not worked, and I believe it is also a combination of kids whose free time is dominated with social media and video games, as well as this need to reward them for merely participating.

Children today have virtually no social skills, but the ones who do are like rock stars. Kids don’t know how to lose gracefully and use it as a driving force to become better or look elsewhere for success.

They lose a video game and they treat it like their life is over. Some kid bullies them or makes fun of them, and they are ready to crawl into a hole and die rather than fight back.

This is not how we were brought up for sure, but the parenting that was used in the 1970s and 1980s would never be tolerated today. Perhaps that is where we need to start pointing the finger.