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We're Going to See This Happen More With Some School Shootings, Aren't We?

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It was senseless. It was evil, and now the media and the police are about to make some of these tragedies even more of a circus.

Yesterday, in Madison, Wisconsin, a teenage shooter shot and killed two people at Abundant Life Christian School. She injured six others before committing suicide. And yet, the gender of the shooter was not revealed until an unnecessary game of “Guess Who” was launched after Police Chief Shon Barnes refused to disclose that detail. We’re going to see this more often, aren’t we? These types of shootings don’t fit the liberal narrative.

It was already bad enough with the pillow-smothering that occurs when the suspect and the firearm they use in the crime don’t match. The liberal media needs a white guy with an AR-15 to make some hay and use against Republicans.

The shooter in Madison is allegedly 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow. She isn’t transgender, her alleged boyfriend shared her six-page manifesto (which is unhinged), and she used a 9mm handgun to commit this crime.

A female, handgun, and a looney toon manifesto where she drops the n-word is for sure going to send this story into the furnace. The gender of the shooter and the weapon already marked it for the liberal media memory hole, but one that sports about how sex with blacks makes you one of them, etc., etc., it’s going to be out of the cycle soon. It’s a psychotic mixture of radical feminism and Ku Klux Klan talk. 

This isn't the only school shooting like this, either: the Nashville shooter, who was transgender, had a manifesto, but that’s been blocked from being disclosed to the public. 

But not all recent shootings are entirely a gender-based thing. With the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione, we’ve learned more about him over the past 10 days than we ever did about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin who shot Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. 

The media game of suspect and gun not fitting their narrative is tragically over, and we’ve entered a new politically correct nonsensical dimension, where, at times, the gender of the suspect might not be disclosed for whatever reason, leading to mayhem on social media and further distrust of the media and law enforcement officials. 

The gender of the shooter is an innocuous detail. It’s a simple fact, and the irony is that the refusal to disclose it, which was always silly, to avoid conspiracy theory-peddling or politicization potentially has done just that, to say nothing that the media shouldn’t be shying away from this story because they can’t use it as political ammunition against conservatives. But you know that already.

This game was fun to play as a kid, not for guessing the suspect of mass casualty events:

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