Joe Biden has released a statement on the tragic shooting that occurred at Abundant Life Christian School on Monday, and it’s rightfully sparking controversy. As RedState reported, 15-year-old Natalie Lynn Rupnow opened fire, leaving two people dead. It appears she then committed suicide, as it has been confirmed no law enforcement officer discharged their weapon on the scene.
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NEW: Abundant Life Shooter Identified as 15-Year-Old Natalie Lynn Rupnow
Having read some of the shooter’s “manifesto,” she was undoubtedly a disturbed individual. Her family life was chaotic at best, and she had expressed a desire to take her own life before committing the shooting. Further, she appeared to be obsessed with past school shooters.
In other words, there were a ton of warning signs, and if society wants to talk about how to prevent these types of attacks, the mental health of American adolescents has to be a primary concern. Of course, Joe Biden and the rest of his party can never let a tragedy go to waste. Instead of having a frank conversation about the root causes of school shootings, the president’s handlers did what they always do: Demand more “gun control.”
What makes that especially dishonest and ghoulish are the specific details of this shooting. Before we get there, though, here’s what was released by the White House.
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“Congress must pass commonsense gun safety laws: Universal background checks. A national red flag law. A ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.”
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— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 16, 2024
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What’s so gross about this is that it expects the reader to make several false assumptions that push the narrative Biden and the rest of the Democratic Party prefer. Notice the mention of needing a ban on “assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.” The problem? The shooter in this case used neither. Rather, she used a pistol, which is the one type of firearm Democrats constantly claim they don’t want to ban. So why mention “assault weapons?” Because Biden is willing to stand on the bodies of dead children to promote policies that would have had no impact on this shooting. It’s disgusting.
Then there’s the claim that we need “a national red flag law” and “universal background checks.” For one, the former is likely unconstitutional at the federal level. Regardless, how would either of those things have stopped Rupnow from committing this attack? She was not in legal possession of the gun she used. Thus, no court using red flag laws would have been able to take it away from her, and since she didn’t purchase the weapon, background checks would likewise be irrelevant.
Don’t kid yourself. The White House knows all of that. Yet, they chose to put out that statement anyway hoping that people would simply assume this was a school shooting in which a legally purchased semi-automatic rifle was used with a “high-capacity” magazine. In fact, the shooter was barred by state law from possessing the gun she used.
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Putting that all together, absolutely nothing suggested by Biden would have prevented this shooting. Bolstering that point, the shooter had already broken multiple laws before she even pulled the trigger. Self-serving politicians aren’t going to legislate themselves out of the depravity that has infected so many children. This is a cultural problem, but Democrats will never admit that because it would mean admitting their listless, hedonistic worldview of morality and family is harmful, and they can’t have that.
