Another day, another school shooting

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Anonymous wrote:CNN is reporting that the shooter was known to law enforcement (unclear why) and the father recently told law enforcement that the kid didn’t have access to guns.

So many questions.

The kid had threatened to shoot up his school in 2023 per the FBI

Yup. Parents going to get charged in this one.

Kid’s name is “Colt.” OF COURSE he had full access to the weapons in his home.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/04/apalachee-high-school-shooting-georgia/

Quoting myself since I called this.

Your call was and is sound, but surprised at the number and type of charges, including murder. I am not bothered in the least by the father's charge, but it does show the utter seriousness in which this rural county in Georgia is taking this incident. Surprised there has not been more outcry over the kid being tried as an adult, although on the alleged facts doesn't bother me either.

Call PP here and I am not a fan of trying teenagers as adults but I know it’s not realistic in this community not to do it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN is reporting that the shooter was known to law enforcement (unclear why) and the father recently told law enforcement that the kid didn’t have access to guns.

So many questions.

The kid had threatened to shoot up his school in 2023 per the FBI

Yup. Parents going to get charged in this one.

Kid’s name is “Colt.” OF COURSE he had full access to the weapons in his home.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/04/apalachee-high-school-shooting-georgia/

Quoting myself since I called this.

Your call was and is sound, but surprised at the number and type of charges, including murder. I am not bothered in the least by the father's charge, but it does show the utter seriousness in which this rural county in Georgia is taking this incident. Surprised there has not been more outcry over the kid being tried as an adult, although on the alleged facts doesn't bother me either.

Call PP here and I am not a fan of trying teenagers as adults but I know it’s not realistic in this community not to do it.

It seems like a small community, I’m sure no matter what this family will no longer be welcome there. The father had the power to prevent this but instead he enabled it.

[Anonymous]

What about the mother? Aren't they going to arrest her to? She would have known about all this, wouldn't she?

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Anonymous wrote:104 victims of school spree shootings in the last 25 years (avg. 4/year), and while every single one is an absolutely abominable, heartbreaking tragedy, this is not even on my radar as something to worry about for my school-aged kids

Drunk driving & fentanyl, yes

Per the Washington Post, in a story updated just yesterday, there have been 416 school shootings since Columbine. Over 300,000 students (sum total of the population of students at those 416 schools at the time of the shooting) have been exposed to gun violence at their schools. 213 children and educators have been killed, and 464 injured.
Their accounting seems to include only elementary and secondary schools. Shootings at colleges, such as the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 that killed 32 students and professors, aren't included in their tally.
There's been a marked increase in school shootings in the last 10-15 years.

Because of mental illness, poor parenting, and social media.

Every other developed country has those things. They don’t have monthly school shootings.

Then why do other nations with high gun ownership not have this problem?

They don’t allow parents to give their 13-year-olds who have already been interviewed by the FBI for making threats AR-15s for Christmas? Just a guess.
“The father of the Apalachee High School mass shooting suspect told investigators this week he purchased the gun used in the killings as a holiday present for his son in December 2023.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/05/us/winder-georgia-shooting-apalachee-high-school?cid=ios_app

What a complete POS. If his son has to spend the rest of his life in prison, his father should too.

The father should have his skin slowly peeled off and be dipped in acid. Prison is far too good for him.

Agree.

Any doubt if this is a MAGA family?

Fat Felon Flag on his lawn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about the mother? Aren't they going to arrest her to? She would have known about all this, wouldn't she?

From what I've read, the parents are separated and the kids live with the dad. Do you know how much contact the mom even has with the kids?

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Anonymous wrote:Washington Post has been tracking gun violence at school (the federal government, in yet another mind-boggling failure in this area, doesn't even track this). Nearly 400,000 students have experienced gun violence at their school since Columbine. This includes kids who died, were injured, witnessed violence, or cowered in closets or bathrooms to hide from the shootings on the other side of the door.

Untold numbers of schools schools have also had false alarms -- not drills, but actual lockdowns that are triggered, leading the school and students to believe that it's their turn. (My own kid had one of these. She hid in the closet and texted me that she loved me).

And of course EVERY kid has done drills, countless drills, in each one imagining the moment someone enters their place of learning to hunt them like an animal.

Nobody wants it this way. No one. Not even the A-rated-by-the-NRA cowards in congress. Eventually, the politicians will crack. It will be harder to do nothing than it is to make change. Once a few shift, most will. We will look back on this time, and see it for what it was, and is: madness.

The federal government wasn’t allowed to do this. For years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment

Correct. Thank the GOP and NRA for that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Another young male with an incredible sense of entitlement kills innocent people. With an assault weapon.

FTFY

Young white male citizen. The Maga crowd loves to blame immigrants for everything but most perpetrators of mass shootings have been white male citizens of the USA

Yeah, let’s deport all of them back to Europe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Washington Post has been tracking gun violence at school (the federal government, in yet another mind-boggling failure in this area, doesn't even track this). Nearly 400,000 students have experienced gun violence at their school since Columbine. This includes kids who died, were injured, witnessed violence, or cowered in closets or bathrooms to hide from the shootings on the other side of the door.

Untold numbers of schools schools have also had false alarms -- not drills, but actual lockdowns that are triggered, leading the school and students to believe that it's their turn. (My own kid had one of these. She hid in the closet and texted me that she loved me).

And of course EVERY kid has done drills, countless drills, in each one imagining the moment someone enters their place of learning to hunt them like an animal.

Nobody wants it this way. No one. Not even the A-rated-by-the-NRA cowards in congress. Eventually, the politicians will crack. It will be harder to do nothing than it is to make change. Once a few shift, most will. We will look back on this time, and see it for what it was, and is: madness.

The federal government wasn’t allowed to do this. For years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment

Correct. Thank the GOP and NRA for that.

Uhh....thoughts and prayers?
mental health issues?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:104 victims of school spree shootings in the last 25 years (avg. 4/year), and while every single one is an absolutely abominable, heartbreaking tragedy, this is not even on my radar as something to worry about for my school-aged kids

Drunk driving & fentanyl, yes

Per the Washington Post, in a story updated just yesterday, there have been 416 school shootings since Columbine. Over 300,000 students (sum total of the population of students at those 416 schools at the time of the shooting) have been exposed to gun violence at their schools. 213 children and educators have been killed, and 464 injured.
Their accounting seems to include only elementary and secondary schools. Shootings at colleges, such as the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 that killed 32 students and professors, aren't included in their tally.
There's been a marked increase in school shootings in the last 10-15 years.

Because of mental illness, poor parenting, and social media.

And access to guns.

+1 We didn't have social media when Columbine happened.

Yes but school shootings didn’t happen often. Not like today.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What about the mother? Aren't they going to arrest her to? She would have known about all this, wouldn't she?

From what I've read, the parents are separated and the kids live with the dad. Do you know how much contact the mom even has with the kids?

She has a long criminal history, apparently a meth addict. Not sure if she was an active parent or not.

“Marcee Gray, the mother of the suspect in Wednesday’s Apalachee High School shooting, has a criminal record spanning more than 17 years and four counties, court records show.”

“The 43-year-old has faced prosecution in Barrow, Fulton and Forsyth counties, accused of domestic violence, drug possession, property damage and traffic violations. She has also faced civil fraud claims related to a vehicle purchase and was in jail in Ben Hill County as recently as April, according to publicly Gray, the mother of the suspect in Wednesday’s Apalachee High School shooting, has a criminal record spanning more than 17 years and four counties, court records show.”



https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/school-shooting-suspects-mother-has-criminal-record-going-back-17-years/VZT5EIUGRJFM5OUQTW65MLEFMA/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2f3ZlgUiE-WP69IRyTDkUdVAWlE5WBPXdIFB5WK3KPN8TT2p-gUxZL1zM_aem_3DBzGpTcRg0aUiqu5xyxhA&ai=

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Washington Post has been tracking gun violence at school (the federal government, in yet another mind-boggling failure in this area, doesn't even track this). Nearly 400,000 students have experienced gun violence at their school since Columbine. This includes kids who died, were injured, witnessed violence, or cowered in closets or bathrooms to hide from the shootings on the other side of the door.

Untold numbers of schools schools have also had false alarms -- not drills, but actual lockdowns that are triggered, leading the school and students to believe that it's their turn. (My own kid had one of these. She hid in the closet and texted me that she loved me).

And of course EVERY kid has done drills, countless drills, in each one imagining the moment someone enters their place of learning to hunt them like an animal.

Nobody wants it this way. No one. Not even the A-rated-by-the-NRA cowards in congress. Eventually, the politicians will crack. It will be harder to do nothing than it is to make change. Once a few shift, most will. We will look back on this time, and see it for what it was, and is: madness.

The federal government wasn’t allowed to do this. For years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment

Correct. Thank the GOP and NRA for that.

Gun violence is clearly a public health issue. What does the NRA not want us to know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN is reporting that the shooter was known to law enforcement (unclear why) and the father recently told law enforcement that the kid didn’t have access to guns.

So many questions.

The kid had threatened to shoot up his school in 2023 per the FBI

Yup. Parents going to get charged in this one.

Kid’s name is “Colt.” OF COURSE he had full access to the weapons in his home.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/04/apalachee-high-school-shooting-georgia/

Quoting myself since I called this.

Your call was and is sound, but surprised at the number and type of charges, including murder. I am not bothered in the least by the father's charge, but it does show the utter seriousness in which this rural county in Georgia is taking this incident. Surprised there has not been more outcry over the kid being tried as an adult, although on the alleged facts doesn't bother me either.

Easier to blame a few bad apples than to deal with the larger issue that guns are available as easy as candy to any idiot in the state of Georgia.

[Anonymous]

Vance just shrugged off school shootings as a “fact of life” ignoring that we’re the only country where this seems to be a frequent problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vance just shrugged off school shootings as a “fact of life” ignoring that we’re the only country where this seems to be a frequent problem.

“Why are we the only country where kids keep getting gunned down at school?”

Vance:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about the mother? Aren't they going to arrest her to? She would have known about all this, wouldn't she?

From what I've read, the parents are separated and the kids live with the dad. Do you know how much contact the mom even has with the kids?

She has a long criminal history, apparently a meth addict. Not sure if she was an active parent or not.

“Marcee Gray, the mother of the suspect in Wednesday’s Apalachee High School shooting, has a criminal record spanning more than 17 years and four counties, court records show.”

“The 43-year-old has faced prosecution in Barrow, Fulton and Forsyth counties, accused of domestic violence, drug possession, property damage and traffic violations. She has also faced civil fraud claims related to a vehicle purchase and was in jail in Ben Hill County as recently as April, according to publicly Gray, the mother of the suspect in Wednesday’s Apalachee High School shooting, has a criminal record spanning more than 17 years and four counties, court records show.”



https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/school-shooting-suspects-mother-has-criminal-record-going-back-17-years/VZT5EIUGRJFM5OUQTW65MLEFMA/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2f3ZlgUiE-WP69IRyTDkUdVAWlE5WBPXdIFB5WK3KPN8TT2p-gUxZL1zM_aem_3DBzGpTcRg0aUiqu5xyxhA&ai=

A meth addict for a mother and an enabler not so bright father. Not a great start to life. Most of these shooters have messed up family lives I’m not surprised by this.