What We Know on Abundant Life School Shooting

When there’s a mass shooting or even an incident pretty close to a mass shooting, unless it was related to some other kind of crime, we can usually guess with a fair degree of accuracy certain details about the shooter.

For example, it’s usually a white male. They’re not exclusively white, by any stretch, but they’re almost always guys. There are a couple of notable examples, but those are exceptions, not the rule.

Monday’s shooting at a Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin is now one of those exceptions.

However, there’s a lot of information we know today that we didn’t know yesterday.

First, we now know why the death toll wasn’t much higher.

A 15-year-old student killed a teacher and another teenager with a handgun Monday at a Christian school in Wisconsin, terrifying classmates including a second grader who made the 911 call that sent dozens of police officers rushing to the small school just a week before its Christmas break.

The female student, who was identified at a press conference Monday night, also wounded six others at a study hall at Abundant Life Christian School, including two students who were in critical condition, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said. A teacher and three students had been taken to a hospital with less serious injuries, and two of them had been released by Monday evening.

“Every child, every person in that building is a victim and will be a victim forever. … We need to figure out and try to piece together what exactly happened,” Barnes said.

Barbara Wiers, director of elementary and school relations for Abundant Life Christian School, said students “handled themselves magnificently.”

She said when the school practices safety routines, which it had done just before the school year, leaders always announce that it is a drill. That didn’t happen Monday.

“When they heard, ‘Lockdown, lockdown,’ they knew it was real,” she said.

There’s a lot to criticize about lockdown drills, but when they’re needed, they’re needed. It sounds like the incident might have been far worse had there not been a conscious effort toward safety.

We don’t have to like it. We just have to do it.

And no one bats an eye at fire drills in school. Fires in schools are pretty rare, but because fires have happened and been fatal, we accept fire drills as part of life. It sounds like mass killer drills need to just be moved into the same category of thinking.

Now, about the killer herself.

Yes, this one was a female student, age 15. Obviously, this is too young to buy a gun lawfully, though we don’t know how she got one.

However, we do have some potential indications of her own thought processes leading up to this awful event. It seems someone with access to a Discord server the eventual killer was on shared some content the killer reportedly wrote. I should stress that this is not confirmed, though.

An account on X called @PETR0GRAD claimed to have access to a Discord chat where [the killer] was detailing her mindset and plans. Later, it was suggested that this was part of an earlier draft of a manifesto.

The excerpt stated, “women are the only hope for this wretched world. But even women have been brainwashed by moids for too long theyve internalized the patriarchy and turned on each other, always begging for for male approval and validation. Its disgusting. I realize the truth men are iredeemable. radfem hitler was is f*cking vindicated now. They cant be reformed or redeemed. Theyre a f*cking scourge upon the earth. The only solution is to total exterminate them and every foid who worships these f*cking parasites. Every single male must be wiped out, from babies to the elderly. Only then can women be free to create a new world. ill be a pioneer, ill be the first to take the first step. i dont care if theyr fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, teachers, police, and especially n*ggers or politicians. ive been craving to kill them all. This is my mission. only when their parasitic sludge has been expunged from this earth is when Then the world will be clean and women can start over. It’s the only way. in aproximatety 10 mintue si should be dead, its strange but it feels good.”

Interestingly, the term “foid” used above is usually linked to incels. Here, though, it seems to be linked to radical feminism. The term means “female humanoid,” which fits if a radical feminist is using it to describe women who aren’t hostile toward men. The inclusion of the similar “moid” is also interesting.

And if this was, in fact, from the killer, then she was most definitely hostile.

Interestingly, though, Canadian journalist and Reduxx founder Anna Slatz has a copy of the killer’s manifesto and intends to publish it, and also reports that she’s had contact with the killer’s boyfriend.

I find it interesting that someone who wrote the above would actually have a boyfriend. Then again, weirder things have happened.

Obviously, there’s still a lot to learn about what happened and this one has enough of a profile, particularly with all the wounded, that we’re going to be following this incident for quite some time.