[shazrand]

Originally Posted by z3r01 ↗

its people like you that laugh now but cry when it happens to you or a loved one of yours.

That a really dumb comment, man.

[kellyhound]

The mother of the Georgia shooting suspect called the school 30 minutes warning of an "extreme emergency" before he allegedly opened fire there, his aunt has claimed.

Colt Gray, 14, is accused of shooting dead two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder, near Atlanta, on Wednesday.

Another teacher and a further eight students were injured but are expected to make a full recovery, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Annie Brown, the teenager's aunt, has said her sister called the school counsellor half an hour before gunfire broke out.

She told the Washington Post the boy's mother warned of an "extreme emergency" involving her son and that they needed to find him "immediately".

Phone records shared with the newspaper, and later confirmed by the Associated Press, show a 10-minute call was made from the family's shared phone plan to the school at that time.

Gray appeared in court on Friday when he was charged as an adult with the murders of Mason Schermerhorn, 14, Christian Angulo, 14, Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53.

His father Colin Gray, 54, also appeared in court and has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and second-degree murder for allowing his son to get hold of a weapon.

Colin Gray was interviewed by police last year over threats his son made on the gaming platform Discord that he might carry out a shooting.

He told officials he had hunting guns locked in a safe in the family home - but his son did not have access to them.

He said the teenager had struggled with his parents' separation and often got picked on at school.

"He knows the seriousness of weapons and what they can do, and how to use them and not use them," the boy's father said, according to a transcript of the interview.

He also mentioned his son becoming "flustered under pressure" and "not really thinking straight".

"I don't want him to fight anybody, but they just keep like pinching him and touching him," he told investigators in May 2023.

But ultimately the case was closed after neither Colt nor Colin Gray were successfully linked to the Discord account the threats were made from.

There were no grounds to confiscate the family's guns either, according to police reports released by the sheriff's office.

Colin Gray bought his son an AR-style rifle as a gift after the pair were questioned, law enforcement sources told NBC News.

On Friday a judge ruled that the teenager would not face the death penalty because, as a juvenile, the maximum sentence he can receive is life without parole.

[WonderMomma]

Sigh

[Soulconsumer]

If everybody was armed with an AK-47 this would never had happend...i say more guns and free ammo for all.

[DirtyPickles]

She offers complaints, but no solutions.

[Stanh80]

The issue now that you have in USA is that "school shooting" has become "popular".
It has become so common (for such an impactful event) that it is an item of American culture now, part of American psyche. Present and future troubled kids now have this idea culturally identified and pre formulated for them.
I wonder how many troubled teens in USA are right now, thinking "I know I'm a school shooter" because they associate their psychological issues/profile and personal history/struggles to that of known school shooters and grow convinced that school shooting is their fate/their only direction/their step to fame and twisted glory. Just like the "being a successful streamer/youtuber" or before that, becoming a reality tv star, this "dream" is a concrete possibility in the cultural canvas (only for a very specific profile of unstable teens of course) and has been since Columbine and how glorified the perpetrators and the act have been if only because the whole world was speaking of the shooters and their deeds.

[Tony76]

Originally Posted by Stanh80 ↗

The issue now that you have in USA is that "school shooting" has become "popular".
It has become so common (for such an impactful event) that it is an item of American culture now, part of American psyche. Present and future troubled kids now have this idea culturally identified and pre formulated for them.
I wonder how many troubled teens in USA are right now, thinking "I know I'm a school shooter" because they associate their psychological issues/profile and personal history/struggles to that of known school shooters and grow convinced that school shooting is their fate/their only direction/their step to fame and twisted glory. Just like the "being a successful streamer/youtuber" or before that, becoming a reality tv star, this "dream" is a concrete possibility in the cultural canvas (only for a very specific profile of unstable teens of course) and has been since Columbine and how glorified the perpetrators and the act have been if only because the whole world was speaking of the shooters and their deeds.

Good comment, certainly seems to be the case.
I wonder if there would be as many school-shootings if the news didn't report it as much, or if there wasn't much glorification or popularity.
Another example is the amount of bomb-threats being called into schools. I'm talking about literal children calling in bomb-threats, and being dumb enough to not even using any masking-software to hide their identity, and just throw their life away for a stupid "joke."

[Stanh80]

Originally Posted by Tony76 ↗

I wonder if there would be as many school-shootings if the news didn't report it as much, or if there wasn't much glorification or popularity.

I bet you not