Surveillance Footage Shows Nashville Shooter Used A Carbine Which Fires Pistol Rounds, Not An AR-15

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Surveillance photographs and video footage shows the 28-year-old transgender suspect who attacked the Nashville Christian school was using a carbine which fires pistol rounds, not an AR-15.

The 28-year-old was armed with three firearms, and police photos of the guns show that an AR-15 was not one them.

The firearms were an AR-pistol, a handgun, and a carbine. The type of carbine possessed by the attacker uses 9mm or .40 caliber handgun rounds.

From surveillance video, it appears the attacker may have used the AR-pistol to shoot and shatter the glass on the front door. But in photos and videos that show her walking the halls, looking for potential targets, she is holding the carbine.

She can be seen holding the carbine in the following video as she approaches the school office[.] (Read more from “Surveillance Footage Shows Nashville Shooter Used A Carbine Which Fires Pistol Rounds, Not An AR-15” HERE)

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Vatican: Pope Francis Hospitalized In Rome

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Pope Francis will be hospitalized in Rome for a “few days” after a scheduled checkup on Wednesday, according to the Vatican.

Francis, 86, visited the Gemelli Hospital Wednesday afternoon for his checkup, Holy See spokesman Matteo Bruni said. The Vatican later said that Francis went to the hospital for a respiratory infection after experiencing breathing difficulties and will remain hospitalized for a “few days,” the BBC reported. The pope canceled his audiences through Friday.

A statement from the Vatican said that the pope’s condition would “require a few days of appropriate hospital medical therapy.”

“Pope Francis is touched by the many messages received and expresses his gratitude for the closeness and prayer,” the statement added. The pope appeared to be in relatively good condition when he was in front of a general audience earlier on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. (Read more from “Vatican: Pope Francis Hospitalized In Rome” HERE)

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Governor Signs Legislation Granting $1 Million In Funding To Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers

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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed legislation Wednesday granting more than $1 million in funding to pro-life crisis pregnancy centers.

HB 2002 increases support for families by allocating $1 million in funding to “pregnancy help organizations,” which the bill says must “not perform, prescribe, refer for or encourage abortion.”

Governor Justice signed the bill after it passed the House 31-1.

“West Virginia’s pregnancy centers empower women and impact lives for the better every day,” Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America said in a statement provided to the Daily Caller. “These organizations provide free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, medical exams, counseling, parent classes, financial classes, and resources such as food, diapers, clothing, and financial assistance for housing and utilities. The pregnancy help centers are engaging in a labor of love.” (Read more from “Governor Signs Legislation Granting $1 Million In Funding To Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers” HERE)

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Mysterious Signs and Wonders: ‘Monstrous’ Gamma-ray Burst Brightest Seen Since ‘Human Civilization Began’, Pointed Directly at Earth

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A gamma-ray burst, which lit up our galaxy last October, was the “brightest burst” ever seen and a once-in-10,000-year explosion, according to NASA.

Astronomers have been studying the extragalactic burst, nicknamed BOAT for the “brightest of all time,” for months after it triggered detectors on numerous spacecraft. NASA revealed astronomers’ conclusions Wednesday, calling the Oct. 9 blast the brightest since the start of mankind.

“It is just an absolutely monstrous burst. It is extremely extraordinary; we’ve never seen anything remotely close to it,” Eric Burns, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Louisiana State University, told reporters at the 20th meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s High Energy Astrophysics Division in Hawaii.

“The BOAT is a once-in-10,000-year event,” Burns added. “So, there’s a reasonable chance this is the brightest gamma-ray burst to hit Earth since human civilization began.”

While the burst — known as GRB 221009A — was so bright it blinded most gamma-ray instruments in space, scientists were able to reconstruct the information from data collected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The results were confirmed with data and analysis from Russian and Chinese teams. Together, they concluded that the burst was 70 times brighter than any others seen.

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Mysterious Gamma Ray Burst Puzzles Astronomers

By JENNIFER OUELLETTE. [W]e now have new data from follow-up observations in several new papers published in a special focus issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The findings confirmed that GRB 221009A was indeed the BOAT (“brightest of all time”), appearing especially bright because its narrow jet was pointing directly at Earth. “It’s probably the brightest event to hit Earth since human civilization began,” Eric Burns, an astronomer at Louisiana State University, told New Scientist. “The energy of this thing is so extreme that if you took the entire sun and you converted all of it into pure energy, it still wouldn’t match this event. There’s just nothing comparable.”

But the various analyses also yielded several surprising results that puzzle astronomers and may lead to a significant overhaul of our current models of gamma-ray bursts. For instance, a supernova should have occurred a few weeks after the initial burst, but astronomers have yet to detect one. Radio data from observations of the afterglow didn’t match predictions of existing models, and astronomers detected rare extended rings of X-ray light echoes from the initial blast in distant dust clouds. (Read more about the gamma-ray burst HERE)

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Tucker Carlson Responds After Dishonest Headlines Say He Called Trans People ‘The Enemy’ Of Christianity

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Tucker Carlson declared during his Tuesday monologue that the “trans movement” was the “mirror image” and therefore the “natural enemy” of Christianity – and it wasn’t long before media outlets had twisted his words to make it appear as though he was targeting people.

Carlson addressed the tragic Monday shooting that took place at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, and argued that radical gender ideology was the antithesis of Christianity – and that being the case, the two could not peacefully coexist. But at no point did he name transgender people as the “enemy.”

Despite that, media and news site Mediaite ran with a headline suggesting that he had done exactly that: “Tucker Carlson Deems Trans People the ‘Natural Enemy’ of Christianity.”

“I said that trans theology is inherently at odds with Christian theology. That’s true. The recent mass murder in Nashville is one result of it, obviously,” Carlson told The Daily Wire. “The shills at Mediaite and in the rest of the media would like to keep lying about this, which is why they aren’t pushing to see the killer’s manifesto.”

The article went on to quote Carlson accurately, however, noting that he had actually claimed the trans movement was Christianity’s “natural enemy.” (Read more from “Tucker Carlson Responds After Dishonest Headlines Say He Called Trans People ‘The Enemy’ Of Christianity” HERE)

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Media Outlets Apologize for Correctly Identifying Transgender Shooter as a Woman

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By New York Post. The New York Times and USA Today complied with radical gender ideology by apologizing for correctly identifying the Nashville Christian School shooting suspect as a woman.

Soon after the shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School on Monday, in which three students and three adults were shot and killed, police identified the suspected shooter as 28-year-old Audrey Hale. A little while later, officials stated that Hale, who was killed by police during the attack, identified as transgender — meaning Hale allegedly believed she was a man.

Following the revelation that Audrey was a woman who identified as a man, both USA Today and The New York Times were quick to issue statements on Twitter, seemingly apologizing for adhering to biological reality by correctly calling Hale a woman. The publications also appeared to scrub references to Hale as a female from online news articles.

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Shooter Audrey Hale’s Parents ‘Couldn’t Accept’ Their Daughter’s Trans Identity: Report

By New York Post. Nashville shooter Audrey Hale’s parents “couldn’t accept” their 28-year-old daughter’s transgender, gay lifestyle, according to a report.

The Daily Mail reported that Hale’s strict Christian parents, Norma, 61, and 64-year-old Ronald, struggled to come to terms with their daughter’s gender identity and sexuality.

Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake recently announced Hale was transgender. He said police were investigating whether Hale being transgender played a role in her decision to target the private Christian elementary school.

Hale, who also went by the name “Aiden” and used he/him pronouns, would reportedly change clothes after leaving the family home where she lived. (Read more from “Shooter Audrey Hale’s Parents ‘Couldn’t Accept’ Their Daughter’s Trans Identity: Report” HERE)

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Bragg’s Case Against Trump Has a U.S. Constitution Problem

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According to press reports, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is close to indicting Donald Trump, or at least wrestling with the decision. While Trump has predicted “death and destruction” if he is arrested, his defenders should focus instead on the prosecution’s legal flaws. In fact, at the heart of the case rests a critical — but so far unexplored — defect that should bring down Bragg’s house of cards.

According to leaks from the DA’s office, Bragg intends to seek a grand-jury indictment of Trump for a $130,000 hush-money alleged payoff to porn star Stephanie Clifford (a.k.a. Stormy Daniels). Nondisclosure deals do not by themselves violate criminal law. The DA’s star witness is Trump’s fixer, Michael Cohen, who was convicted of a federal felony for carrying out the scheme. (Cohen has proven such an unreliable witness that federal prosecutors decided to drop any further investigation into the payoff years ago.) The apparent claim here is that Trump violated the law by trying to account for the hush money as a payment to bagman Cohen for “legal services.”

But fiddling with the corporate books can only support a misdemeanor charge, one that has to be brought within two years of the act. As the payoff occurred in 2016, the Manhattan DA ran out of time years ago. So to elevate this minor infraction into a felony incurring significant jail time and subject to a longer statute of limitations, Bragg apparently plans to claim that Trump falsified his business records to conceal another crime. What crime? According to press reports, Bragg claims that Trump violated federal campaign-finance laws by concealing what was effectively a contribution to his own presidential efforts.

In other words, if he proceeds (which is not yet completely clear), Bragg would charge Trump because he did not pay Clifford out of campaign funds. It is not even clear that Bragg could prove that the payment had anything to do with the campaign, as Trump could claim that he would have paid the hush money anyway to spare his wife and family from humiliation. (Read more from “Bragg’s Case Against Trump Has a U.S. Constitution Problem” HERE)

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Transgender School Shooter’s Chilling Final Messages to Pal Revealed

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Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale sent a friend a chilling “suicide note” minutes before slaughtering three children and three adults — writing her: “I’m planning to die today.”

Hale, 28, messaged Averianna Patton, her former middle school basketball teammate, on Instagram at 9:57 a.m. Monday, NewsChannel 5 reported.

“So basically that post I made on here about you, that was basically a suicide note. I’m planning to die today,” Hale wrote, using the name Aiden, according to messages Patton gave the outlet.

“THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!!” wrote Hale, who identified as transgender. “You’ll probably hear about me on the news after I die.”

Hale added: “This is my last goodbye. I love you … See you again in another life.” She signed the missive “Audrey (Aiden).” (Read more from “Transgender School Shooter’s Chilling Final Messages to Pal Revealed” HERE)

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Disturbed Journalists Mock Prayer, Drag Show Ban After Christian School Massacre

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After a shooter killed three children and three staff members at a private Christian grade school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday, some journalists, columnists, entertainers and activists turned their ire onto Christians and conservatives for banning drag shows for kids.

Left-wing sports writer Mike Wise seemed to agree with a tweet that sympathized with the transgender shooter, Audrey Hale, 28, whom police say attended the school as a child, for being a victim of “intolerant … brainwashing” through “religious indoctrination.” . . .

“I don’t condone Audrey Hale’s actions, though I understand their outrage against an intolerant state that brainwashes children through religious indoctrination. The reality is this human still identified as that child attending that school and carried that pain into adulthood,” a Twitter user named Kat Amarco wrote. . .

Progressive talk show host David Pakman mocked the Christian school for not “praying enough.”

“Very surprising that there would be a mass shooting at a Christian school, given that lack of prayer is often blamed for these horrible events. Is it possible they weren’t praying enough, or correctly, despite being a Christian school?” he asked in a since-deleted tweet. (Read more from “Disturbed Journalists Mock Prayer, Drag Show Ban After Christian School Massacre” HERE)

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Singer to Perform Concert in Nashville, Donate Proceeds to ‘Trans Rights’ Groups

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Pop icon Madonna just announced that she is adding a Nashville stop on her upcoming “Celebration Tour,” set to begin later this year.

The 64-year-old singer made the announcement on Instagram on Monday, stating that she added the Nashville concert at Bridgestone Arena because of new Tennessee laws that severely restrict drag shows and so-called “gender-affirming care” for children. She criticized those laws as “unfounded and pathetic” and claimed that they make “America a dangerous place for our most vulnerable citizens, especially trans women of color.”

“The oppression of the LGBTQ+ is … unacceptable and inhumane,” Madonna stated. . .

“Anyone with half a brain knows not to f*** with a drag queen,” Madonna wrote on Instagram. “Bob and I will see you from the stage in Nashville where we will celebrate the beauty that is the Queer community!”

At about the same time that Madonna posted on social media about the Nashville concert, her website likewise issued an announcement about the Nashville show. Unfortunately, the timing of the announcements coincided with the news that a female suspect who identified as transgender had murdered three adults and three children at a Christian school in Nashville. The decision to add Nashville to the schedule likely did not come in response to the shooting, and neither announcement about Madonna’s Nashville concert makes reference to the shooting, the shooter, or the Christian identity of the victims. (Read more from “Singer to Perform Concert in Nashville, Donate Proceeds to ‘Trans Rights’ Groups” HERE)

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