Academy Award-winning actress Jamie Lee Curtis started her week off by sending a stern message to lawmakers following another school shooting early Monday morning, March 27, when several outlets reported a heavily armed woman opened fire in a small private Christian school in Nashville, TN, fatally shooting six people, three of whom were children.
“BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS NOW!” the Everything Everywhere All at Once actress wrote in all caps in a post shared to her Twitter account roughly before 4 p.m. Monday, March 27, 2023.
The Oscar winner has never been shy about her stance on guns, and in 2018, she made it clear during a brief feud with Fox News that while she supports the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment, she “fully” supported a ban on assault weapons and “bump stock ban.”
Many more social media users have since taken to their social media platforms calling out for some form of law change to prevent yet another senseless incident like the one that took place Monday morning when the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department police chief John Drake said the 28-year-old suspect entered The Covenant School with two “assault-style” rifles and a pistol and took the lives of three staff members and students.
The incident ultimately ended after the shooter was killed by responding police officers. The individual, Audrey Hale, lived in the Nashville area, police said, and was “at one point a student” at the school. However, the exact timeline is not clear.
Despite America’s evident gun crises, the Violence Project reported that female assailants in mass shootings in the United States are extremely rare, noting that “Of the 172 mass shooters studied, only four were women.” It also revealed that “in two cases, the women acted in partnership with a man.”
One notable mass shooting involving a female suspect occurred in San Bernardino, California, in 2015, leaving 14 people dead and nearly two dozen injured.