This morning several people have contacted me on this subject, so I'll just briefly mention that my family and friends have not been directly affected (it occurred in a different suburb).
This Reddit thread is the source of the embedded photo (cropped for size) and has more info than the local news stations (which don't release details until they are properly verified). That post indicates "Aug 2024, age 14. This picture is the last Facebook post from her dad."
This other link also has (unverified) information about her "manifesto" and this photo. TL:DR - a dysfunctional family + bullying at school.
I'll take this post down later after more reliable information is available online.
Addendum: I probably don't need to repost The Onion's boilerplate:
MADISON, WI—In the hours following a violent rampage in Wisconsin in which a lone attacker killed at least two individuals and injured six others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Monday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Maryland resident Jonathan Pallard, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”
Her manifesto is so sick...
ReplyDelete"It's not even my fault though, it's everyone else's, it has to be theirs and not mine."
xoxoxoBruce
Blame is so much easier than responsibility, unless you have a lawyer named Rudy or some such.
DeleteHer 'real' name is "Natalie" - how do you get away with using a different name on your school id?
ReplyDeleteI sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and turn on the radio low to be lulled back to sleep by the all night murmur of the Beeb on NPR. What a 'here we go again' hearing of this Madison school shooting at 3am. Of course, the BBC made me feel better by pointing out this was the eighty-something school shooting of the year in the USA.
ReplyDeleteHere's an Onion title from today:
Delete"Study: More Americans Buying Firearms To Defend Selves From Toddlers Who Found Their Guns"
(in addition to the boilerplate response, which concludes " At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”)
Delete"Sometimes these things just happen." Mindboggling.
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