Posted on 03/28/2023 5:37:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
Julio has been covering the tragedy in Nashville, Tennessee. Six people, three children, and three adult staffers, were shot and killed at the Covenant School, a private Christian learning institution. Anti-gun activists hijacked a press conference on the incident earlier today. The Biden White House will probably push the usual talking points about banning so-called assault weapons, which will be echoed by their allies on the gun control issue. Unlike the shootings at Michigan State University and East High School in Denver, Colorado, this perpetrator had a handgun and two AR-15-style rifles. You can already hear the anti-gun Left licking their lips—now they had a chance to score some points. Except they can’t, Audrey Hale was identified as the shooter, and this person was transgender. Hale was shot and killed by police during the assault.
As Julio wrote, there is a manifesto and maps of potential targets. This shooter planned this attack, and given the setting; a hate crime cannot be ruled out. The lingering question will remain unresolved since a transgender mass shooter is one story the media will avoid like the plague. Authorities said they have a working theory on a motive but are unwilling to disclose it at this time (via NBC News):
The shooter, Audrey Hale, 28, of Nashville, identified as transgender and had no previous criminal record, according to the chief.
Drake said his investigators are working on a possible motive but he declined to reveal that on Monday afternoon.
"There's right now a theory that we may be able to talk about later but it's not confirmed," the chief said.
Asked specifically if Hale's identity could have factored into the killer's motive, Drake said: "There is some theory to that, we're investigating all the leads."
Hale was heavily armed, according to the chief, who said the shooter had two AR-style weapons and a handgun.
Two of those three weapons were legally obtained in the Nashville area, the police chief added.
Hale was confronted by five officers and two of them opened fire, killing the attacker, authorities said.
The shooters at MSU and East High School were black. This one was transgender. The shelf life of this heinous school shooting isn’t going to last past the week for reasons you already know: the past string of mass shootings does not fit the liberal media narrative. When the weapon of choice isn’t an AR-15 rifle, the clock to expiration starts ticking. When members of a community the media loathes to expound upon when they’re the prime suspects in crimes, especially violent ones, the timeline to move on to the next subject is accelerated immensely.
As I’m writing this, CNN’s Erin Burnett is already moved on how Ukrainians are running out of weapons again, so that’s a gauge of how other networks might respond to this shooting. Nashville police now say “resentment” might have fueled the shooter’s desire to commit this act of violence. Authorities said Hale was down fourteen minutes after the emergency call.
What shooting is that?
I didn’t see a word about it on the news this morning....................
Only on Fox
And on the Twitter feed of Moms Demand Action.
I guess the official stenographers of government don’t work unless a white, conservative, Christian, male is involved.
Shooter doesn't fit the profile of angry white MAGA guy...victims not sympathetic figures (they were Christians).
It doesn’t fit the Media-Dem Party narrative, the same reason why black-on-white crime and black mass shootings are ignored.
Media-Dem Party pets get special treatment.
BLM, but Christian lives, and the lives of children do not. That’s the gist of it. Especially when the lives are snuffed out by one of our protected groups.
There was a mass shooting in my town a few years ago. A male tranny who thought he was a woman killed four people. He was also black.
Because he checked several boxes that didn’t fit the narrative, it was at best a two day story, never to be spoken of again.
#1. Were MUSS- Made Up Sexual Status
#2 felt their issues were more important than the other 99.9% of the worlds problems
#3 The perp wasnt disciplined enough and as a child and was given " options " way beyond their maturity level.
#4 this is what happens when a child throws a temper tamtrum in isnt immediately corrected, they become adults with much more destructive temper tamtrums
#5 This person was a psychopatg/ anti social personality that was allowed to purchase and own weapons. Because the medical community didnt call them out
IE:My mom never asked me what I wanted for dinner until I left home and came back for a visit!!
was it confirmed that Hale’s mother is a gun control enthusiast? if true i see a message here from daughter to mother but not sure how to interpret. interesting she had those weapons
I wasnt given options beyond my maturity as a kid and a temper tantrum, well lets just say I dont remember more than maybe one or 2 because they were not tolerated, and my mom could have been an NFL prospect for field goal kicker.
“The shelf life of this heinous school shooting isn’t going to last past the week for reasons you already know”
Oh, but MSM and Dem commies can milk it the way they wish.
They can play this stupid game of pronoun wars, using what they wish to be the narrative.
And if they victims and perp don’t fit their human narrative, they will go where they ALWAYS go - the firearms. The focus will be on firearms, as it was with the few non-whites who shot up places.
It was the lead story on the Today show on NBC this morning.
I leave for work before the ABCNNBCBS shows come on.................
Too bad there weren’t a couple of armed teachers. That tranny would have been neutralized in a lot less than 15 minutes.
These “trans” kids need to speak with psychiatrists and medical doctors and then are given potent drugs. So the doctors enabled this mental illness and then shoot them up with testosterone and other drugs...and it’s the guns fault? SHHEEESH
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