Covenant School students reunite with their parents as they disembark the bus at the Woodmont Baptist Church site after the mass shooting hit their school and left 6 dead in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. United, March 27, 2023. MARK ZALESKI/AP
Mass shootings in the United States are a male monopoly. Uncertainty roiled the American media on Monday, March 27, as Audrey Hale was defined. This 28-year-old individual, who police say was born female but defines herself by the pronouns he/him on her LinkedIn page, entered Covenant School, a Presbyterian school in south of , on Monday, March 27 Nashville in the morning (Tennessee). Equipped with an assault rifle, automatic weapon and handgun, the attacker killed three adults, including the director, and three children, aged 9, before police shot him dead.
A patrol intervened in a very limited time after being alerted by the school. The exchange of fire took place on the second floor of this facility, which houses around 200 children from kindergarten to CM2. The school children were evacuated by bus and taken to a nearby church to find their tormented parents.
According to Nashville Police Chief John Drake, the perpetrator of the murder, a graphic designer by training, “has been identified as transgender.” But the authorities’ vagueness on this identity issue, and its possible relevance to his criminal motives, opened the way for speculation and political manipulation to the detriment of the heart of the problem: his guns. Audrey Hale left a manifesto written up to the final hours before her premeditated operation, intending to commit far greater slaughter. This person had a map of the school showing the different approaches. Audrey Hale would have considered another destination as well, but local security would have made her give up. Two of his three guns were legally acquired, said investigators, who had no criminal record.
Audrey Hale entered the building by smashing a front door with bullets and then advanced without encountering a security guard, who the school was reportedly missing. According to police, Nashville resident Audrey Hale studied at the Covenant School on unknown dates. Which could fuel “a form of resentment” against the school, John Drake said. His car was found nearby.
Plea by Joe Biden
On Monday, Joe Biden spoke in a tired voice before a speech on female entrepreneurship. “I’ve been to so many of these sites,” he sighed, saying these killings “render the nation’s soul riven.” The American President again questioned the inaction of the Republicans in Congress and called on them to pass a ban on weapons of war. These had been banned since 1993 before the legislation expired in 2004. Today, nearly 1 in 20 adults — or about 16 million Americans — owns at least one AR-15, the weapon used in 10 of the 17 bloodiest murders since 2012, according to an exciting Washington Post poll released Monday. “It’s a culture that we kills,” said Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, on MSNBC.
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