Madison faculty capturing one among few with in current many years with feminine suspect | EUROtoday

Police in Wisconsin have recognized 15-year-old scholar Natalie Rupnow because the shooter who killed a classmate and trainer, then died of obvious gun shot wounds at a Christian faculty within the metropolis of Madison on Monday.

If Rupnow carried out the capturing, as police say she did, she could be one of many uncommon feminine perpetrators of a faculty capturing in current many years. Male gunmen committ the overwhelming majority of such assaults.

Including the Madison capturing, simply 9 feminine college students have carried out a faculty capturing since 1999, based on a Washington Post database.

Advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety finds an analogous determine, with lower than 5 p.c of feminine shooters throughout 544 faculty capturing incidents over the past 11 years .

That tracks with the statistics for mass shootings total.

Of the 197 capturing incidents within the Violence Prevention Project database of mass shootings since 1966, 192 of the shooters have been male, 4 have been feminine, and 1 was transgender. White males made up nearly all of perpetrators, based on the database.

After the Madison capturing, right-wing commentators rapidly unfold unverified claims the shooter was transgender, usually alongside wider assaults on transgender individuals total.

Madison police referred to as on the general public to ignore such feedback.

“I dont think that whatever happened today has anything to do with how she, or he, or they may have wanted to identify,” Chief Shon Barnes stated throughout a Monday night press convention. “I wish people would kind of leave their own personal biases out of this. We have people who have yet another school shooting in Madison. That’s where my focus will be for the very near future.”

A associated phenomenon occurred final yr after the 2023 Nashville capturing at a Christian faculty, the place police described the gunman as transgender, although the shooter’s social media profile advised that they had recognized as male within the months earlier than the incident.

Commentators argued individuals with anti-LGBTQ+ views seize on mass shootings to unfold their underlying prejudices.

“When hundreds of white men commit mass shootings, it’s a ‘societal problem,’ but when one trans person commits a mass shooting, it’s a ‘trans problem,’” Alejandra Caraballo, a trans activist and medical teacher at Harvard Law’s Cyberlaw Clinic, wrote after the Nashville capturing. “The actual problem is that this country is unable to do anything at all to stop gun violence.”