Madison kids grow up fast.

It's a cynical place, and there's no real respect for childhood, traditions or community there, imho. (The big Memorial Day event back in my day was a bratwurst grilling in a mall parking lot. Working-class were pretty much non-existent.) Gotta feel for children who come from broken homes and don't really have any community to compensate.

Police have released few details about Rupnow beyond her name, and they said they were investigating a possible motive behind the shooting. With much still unknown, a Washington Post review of court records points to an unsettled childhood for Rupnow, whose parents’ custody agreements sometimes forced her to move between their homes every two or three days.

“There are always signs of a school shooting before it occurred,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said at a Tuesday news conference, where he asked the public for patience as authorities investigated Rupnow’s social media activity and state of mind leading up to the rampage.

The teen is one of just nine female student school shooters in the last 25 years, according to a database maintained by The Post. She is also among the younger recent shooters: Just over a month removed from her 15th birthday, she was about a year younger than the median age of school shooters. And the violence unfolded at a small K-12 school with a religious affiliation, an uncommon site for such incidents, researchers say.

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(The Christian school they sent her to does not believe in evolution, if that's any indication of how this child was being raised by her father. His pictures of being proud of her on the gun range were posted on social media.  If he didn't lock his guns and she got to them... charge him*. Holding parents, or those who provide the guns, responsible if the weapon is used in a killing is the only way. Unforseeable my ass.)

* Wah! Wisconsin has no state law that gun owners must safely lock them to keep them out of the hands of minors.  #Sad  #ChangeIsGonnaCome