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