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Natalie ‘Samantha’ Rupnow had disturbing fascination with other school shooters before her deadly rampage
https://nypost.com/ ^ | 12/17/2024 | Chris Nesi and Steven Vago

Posted on 12/17/2024 8:12:10 PM PST by bitt

Newly uncovered photos and online accounts purportedly associated with the Wisconsin teen school shooter suggest a deeply disturbing obsession with other school shooters such as Columbine killer Eric Harris — and even show her wearing a t-shirt of his favorite band.

A now-eerie snapshot of Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow, 15, was posted on her father’s Facebook page and shows her aiming a rifle at a shooting range wearing a shirt from the German industrial rock band KMFDM.

Harris was seen in photos also wearing one of the band’s T-shirts before he and Dylan Klebold went on to murder 13 people in the 1999 Columbine HS massacre.

The band’s acronym name loosely translates to “no pity for the majority.”

As with Harris and Klebold, Rupnow turned the gun on herself and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after her rampage, which killed another teenage student and teacher at the K-12 Abundant Life Christian School in Madison on Monday.

The online postings and picture of her in the shirt has raised speculation that she may have been inspired by the Columbine massacre — idolizing its fellow teen fiends — and other notorious school shooters. Police say they are still working to uncover her exact motives.

An X account believed to belong to Rupnow included a post shared within minutes of the time she opened fire featuring a person flashing the “OK” sign with their hand, a gesture linked to other school shooters, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The account also shared video from the 2015 Trollhattan, Sweden, school stabbing attack, and another disturbing post days before the Madison slayings includes a video of somebody committing suicide at a gun range, the outlet writes.

An account on social blogging platform Tumblr also believed to be connected to Rupnow features images of guns and other

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1 posted on 12/17/2024 8:12:10 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 12/17/2024 8:12:23 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/natalie-rupnow-wisconsin-madison-school-shooting-abundant-life-b2665607.html

https://6abc.com/post/what-know-natalie-rupnow-15-year-old-suspected-school-shooter-wisconsin/15666450/

https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/12/17/natalie-rupnow-madison-shooting-suspect-abundant-life-christian-school/


3 posted on 12/17/2024 8:15:46 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

This is what a collapsed society looks like.


4 posted on 12/17/2024 8:22:38 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: bitt

I heard she recently transferred to the school. Maybe a bit of social media research should be done before admitting new students


5 posted on 12/17/2024 8:28:46 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

The kids will be lining up to get her tattoo on them with a heart. It’s hopeless.


6 posted on 12/17/2024 8:29:39 PM PST by BipolarBob (Enough of this talk about narcissists, let's get back to talking about me.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance
This is what a collapsed society looks like.

Indeed
7 posted on 12/17/2024 8:33:25 PM PST by mmichaels1970 ( )
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To: bitt

Just from the venue, I’d say it’s likely a shotgun....


8 posted on 12/17/2024 8:37:12 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

It’s what a mentally ill girl looks like.


9 posted on 12/17/2024 8:40:19 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

That’s right, sadly.


10 posted on 12/17/2024 8:43:08 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: bigbob

Exactly. Just like Audrey from Nashville.


11 posted on 12/17/2024 8:43:26 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: bigbob

Yes, a mentally disturbed girl. And a very sick subset of our youth:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/columbine-school-shooting-mythology/678119/

Put them together and ...

There’s even a Wikipedia page for “Columbian Effect”. An excerpt: “Ralph Larkin examined twelve major school shootings in the US in the following eight years and found that in eight of those, “the shooters made explicit reference to Harris and Klebold.””


12 posted on 12/17/2024 8:48:01 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: bitt

It should be a criminal offense for any publisher or producer or reporter to publish, transmit, or otherwise air anything at all about a school shooting or any other “mass shooting” incident. There is scientific evidence that copycat shootings are absolutely caused by the news of such shootings.
These are NOT senseless shootings. There are reasons for these acts and on reason is the desire for fame and publicity.


13 posted on 12/17/2024 9:06:43 PM PST by oldplayer
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chicken egg


14 posted on 12/17/2024 9:09:18 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: oldplayer

Too far down the anti-free speech slippery slope.


15 posted on 12/17/2024 9:56:00 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: bitt

Her full writeup has been published. A ‘manifesto’ it is NOT:

She was a selfish little pig. Just like so many other leftists. It’s convenient and lazy to label her trans; I don’t believe that to be true. Abused at home? Perhaps.

But simply SELFISH and self-absorbed.

Her therapist should be charged; I find it defined as suspension of disbelief that he knew nothing of her suicidal ideation and fantasies of taking others with her.

https://channel2now.com/2024/12/16/article/news/crime/abundant-life-christian-school-shooter-natalie-rupnows-full-manifesto-revealed/


16 posted on 12/17/2024 10:20:44 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: bitt

Someone knew, or maybe several someones knew, well before the shooting. We have very much become a “if it doesn’t affect me directly, I am not getting involved” society.


17 posted on 12/17/2024 11:09:41 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: bitt

This girl was sick and everyone her knew it, except her parents. They apparently didn’t even know who she was. Some people should never have children . If you don’t know how or what love is.


18 posted on 12/17/2024 11:17:20 PM PST by spincaster (i)
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To: oldplayer

They have to control the narrative.


19 posted on 12/17/2024 11:28:24 PM PST by Openurmind
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To: bitt

What type of gun was used in this attack? If it’s a semiautomatic the media makes a big deal out of it. I haven’t heard it mentioned this time.


20 posted on 12/17/2024 11:28:50 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Today's "conspiracy theory" is tomorrow's conspiracy FACT.)
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