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Lame Duck Biden Immediately Leverages Deadly School Shooting for Political Gain, Pushing for Gun Control

Seamus OthotBy Seamus OthotDecember 20, 2024Updated:December 20, 20244 Comments3 Mins Read
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President Joe Biden wasted no time leveraging a tragic Monday shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, to further his political push for stricter gun control.

[RELATED: Auburn Police Investigate Shooting Involving ‘group of teenagers’…]

On Monday morning, a 15-year-old girl, Natalie Lynn Rupnow, opened fire at the Abundant Life School, killing one teacher and one student, and injuring six others, before turning the gun on herself and committing suicide.

By Monday evening, Biden was using the tragedy to call on Congress to implement stricter gun control, pushing for expanded background checks, universal “red flag” laws, and a ban on assault weapons.

“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 classroom,” said President Biden.

Biden ignored the fact that Rupnow used handguns, not an assault rifle, to perpetrate the attack.

Both state and federal laws already prohibit minors from owning handguns, so it was already illegal for Rupnow to have the weapons, and Biden’s proposed changes to gun laws would likely have had no impact on her ability to commit the murders.

President-elect Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., took to X to criticize Biden for his cynical political move and call him out for his hypocrisy in advocating for stricter gun laws shortly after pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, for gun crimes.

[RELATED: Biden Pardons His Son Hunter after Promising He Wouldn’t…]

“Pretty balsey after literally just pardoning his own son for gun crimes,” said Trump Jr. on X.

Pretty balsey after literally just pardoning his own son for gun crimes. https://t.co/qArexducRG

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 17, 2024

Biden issued a sweeping pardon for Hunter at the start of December, pardoning him for the felony gun convictions he received for lying on a firearm application, and any other crimes he may have committed.

Following the shooting, a manifesto appeared online, with various social media accounts claiming that it originated from Rupnow.

Here you go: https://t.co/pzgKedZ7Zs pic.twitter.com/iSKxPtegRL

— captive dreamer (@captivedreamer7) December 16, 2024

The alleged manifesto suggested that Rupnow was motivated in her shooting by radical feminism and hatred for men, and that she was inspired by X user Radfem Hitler, who has deleted her account since the document’s release.

“I realize the truth men are irredeemable. Radfem Hitler is fucking vindicated now. They can’t be reformed or redeemed,” said the manifesto, “Every single man must be wiped out, from babies to the elderly.”

The Maine Wire is unable to independently verify the veracity of the manifesto, and law enforcement has not confirmed or denied that it originated with Rupnow.

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Seamus Othot

Seamus Othot is a reporter for The Maine Wire. He grew up in New Hampshire, and graduated from The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, where he was able to spend his time reading the great works of Western Civilization. He can be reached at seamus@themainewire.com

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<span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="33470 https://www.themainewire.com/?p=33470">4 Comments

  1. Gardiner Schneider on December 21, 2024 8:40 AM

    Hope I am not the only reader here who doubts the the senile old fool, Biden, actually wrote the anti gun letter shown here. It was written for him by the same Marxists that have been controlling him for years. All of the Marxists, such as obama, wish to take our guns from us. Those with guns are free and do not have to take orders from communists. Those without guns will do what they are told, or die. Ask the few surviving German Jews who lost relatives in the Second World War’s death camps.

  2. cheshire cat on December 21, 2024 9:27 AM

    The real question is, has the queen RINO Collins and the 1st loser Jared jumped on board. This is expected from FJB and Anus King.

  3. Joel on December 21, 2024 2:15 PM

    No way Biden wrote this nonsense. This has ZERO to do with gun control. The shooter was a whack job. We can add this to the list of bullshit why democrats are no longer in power.

  4. Eeddyedward on December 23, 2024 1:52 PM

    It’s just another hypocritical lie from the lying pervert in the White House, it has been obvious he has no idea what he is saying or doing for years! He can’t go away fast enough!!

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