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.
One common denominator in all these recent mass shootings is mental illness and transgenderism is just another manifestation of mental illness. However, you also have to look at the inherent evil in wanting to kill innocent children. This shooter had no moral problem with shooting and killing an innocent six year old. However, we should not be surprised at this when our society now deems abortion as a “right” and many have no compunction with “late term abortions” that are nothing short of infanticide. The lives of innocent children have become cheap. When we have no moral issue with exploiting children sexually by grooming them into different genders, allowing them to be sexualized by drag queens, providing them with how to books on homosexuality and allowing them to be sexually mutilated as a supposed cure for imagined sexual dysphoria, it should be no shock that some will have no problem with killing children.
It’s almost as if mass shooters tend to be marginalized people (often by their own actions and perceptions) and seek to avenge themselves by destroying “normal” people...
That the latest nut targeted a particular school she had attended, presumably as a child, and possibly particular people there, hints that there might be more to it, but we’ll never hear the truth.
The firearm in this looney’s hands when they came on surveillance camera in the lobby was a Kel-Tec. Not at all an “AR” frame or “style”. So that is wrong for a start. Kel-Tec 2000 pistol ammo carbine. Not AR (which btw the WaPo preparing for this event pushed out 5-6 “articles” on the “AR-15” style weapons with all kind of misinformation and deliberate disinformation.
This was a lunatic— one developed by the LEFT wing edumacation “specialists” entertaining mental delusion, and encouraging the exploring of the gender “issue” in a clearly off balance weak individual who was full of anger for all the false direction and.... the hormonal interdiction in normal biology. A fake, pumped up now 28 year old “male” with female genetics and multiple issues and ANGER against the school and against young children. Almost inmate like hatred (not unlike the molested prison inmates killing a new admitted child molester first day in the prison).
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