Good call, IMO. If you have guns, you must control them, and control access to them..including to your kids.
He owns some of this..maybe a lot of it..through his bad parenting:
Jeffrey Rupnow, father of Abundant Life Christian School shooter Natalie Rupnow, appears for a preliminary hearing on Thursday, July 24, 2025, at Dane County Courthouse in Madison, Wis. (Owen Ziliak/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, Pool)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The father of a Wisconsin school shooter must stand trial on charges he allowed her access to the guns she used in the deadly attack, a court commissioner ruled Thursday, rejecting arguments that he didn't know she was considering violence and didn't physically hand her the weapons at the school.
Dane County Court Commissioner John Rome issued the order in Jeffrey Rupnow's case after a preliminary hearing, a routine step in the criminal justice process in which a court official decides whether enough evidence exists to order a trial.
Rupnow, 43, faces two counts of intentionally giving a dangerous weapon to a minor and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The charges carry a combined maximum sentence of 18 years in prison.
Rupnow's 15-year-old daughter, Natalie Rupnow, opened fire in December at Abundant Life Christian School, a religious school she attended in Madison. She killed teacher Erin Michelle West and 14-year-old old student Rubi Vergara and wounded six others before she shot herself in the head.
Prosecutors charged Jeffery Rupnow in May, alleging in a criminal complaint that he told investigators his daughter was struggling to cope with her parents' divorce and he bought her the guns as way to connect with her.
He also told investigators that he kept the guns in a safe but told her the code to unlock it, according to the complaint. The day before the school attack, the complaint says he took the Sig Sauer out of the safe so she could clean it, but he wasn't sure if he put the weapon back in the safe or locked it.
He owns some of this..maybe a lot of it..through his bad parenting:
Jeffrey Rupnow, father of Abundant Life Christian School shooter Natalie Rupnow, appears for a preliminary hearing on Thursday, July 24, 2025, at Dane County Courthouse in Madison, Wis. (Owen Ziliak/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, Pool)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The father of a Wisconsin school shooter must stand trial on charges he allowed her access to the guns she used in the deadly attack, a court commissioner ruled Thursday, rejecting arguments that he didn't know she was considering violence and didn't physically hand her the weapons at the school.
Dane County Court Commissioner John Rome issued the order in Jeffrey Rupnow's case after a preliminary hearing, a routine step in the criminal justice process in which a court official decides whether enough evidence exists to order a trial.
Rupnow, 43, faces two counts of intentionally giving a dangerous weapon to a minor and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The charges carry a combined maximum sentence of 18 years in prison.
Rupnow's 15-year-old daughter, Natalie Rupnow, opened fire in December at Abundant Life Christian School, a religious school she attended in Madison. She killed teacher Erin Michelle West and 14-year-old old student Rubi Vergara and wounded six others before she shot herself in the head.
Prosecutors charged Jeffery Rupnow in May, alleging in a criminal complaint that he told investigators his daughter was struggling to cope with her parents' divorce and he bought her the guns as way to connect with her.
He also told investigators that he kept the guns in a safe but told her the code to unlock it, according to the complaint. The day before the school attack, the complaint says he took the Sig Sauer out of the safe so she could clean it, but he wasn't sure if he put the weapon back in the safe or locked it.
