Another day, another school shooting

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The shooter dad was evicted for not paying rent yet had money to buy thousands of dollars of guns and ammunition. 2A priorities!
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Anonymous wrote:The shooter dad was evicted for not paying rent yet had money to buy thousands of dollars of guns and ammunition. 2A priorities!


He won't be worrying about rent now! And the FBI gets to take his guns away. Win/win.
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Anonymous wrote:I def think the kid was strongly influenced negatively by parents who were nightmares and both contributed to this tragedy. FOR SURE.

But I think the kid in surrendering fairly easy prob did it to get attention as horrible and wrong as it is. The dad messed up most by buying him a weapon as a gift (WTF?!!) but the mom not being there and having a loss of stability in both parents equally messed up - definitely this is not all on the boy but on everyone around him. Sounds also like he was bullied by other kids.

As the poster child of a dysfunctional family myself, it's really really hard to come out of it in one piece. Esp in these times with guns, social media, etc. I can see how that kid was so messed up he didn't know where he was. No excuse and the parents 10000% for sure need to be punished but on some level, this was a tragedy more than what happened at the school and a tragedy for that entire family living the way they were.


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This kid was practically raising himself. It's like he was feral or something. It's so awful, and he never stood a chance. Is it only the sperm donor being charged? I know he's the one who purchased the gun, but I don't understand why the egg donor isn't being charged.


We don't know what she did. It is not against the law to be a drug addict or a bad parent.


I understand that. But he's being charged with cruelty to children, and I wondered if that also related to anything she participated in. She sounds horrible. You think she wasn't complicit in this?


He’s being charged with cruelty to children related to the 8 children his son shot with the gun he bought his son. It has nothing to do with his wife.


My question/thought/etc. is that the mother is still in that house, allowed the gun purchase, put up with it, kept it in the house, all of that. I know he purchased the gun, but they both had it in the house.


The mother was not allowed to contact the father directly and had to go through an intermediary so I doubt she was in the house.


She was too busy dtinking and using drugs.


So is every hobo on the street, it's not a crime. :roll: It's only a crime if she personally purchased the gun and handed it to the kid after being confronted by FBI for the threats kids made. Which is the reason the father was arrested from what I gather.

Bad parenting isn't a crime and isn't even always going to produce a maladjusted adult, not to mention a criminal or a psycho. Many kids who grow up with bad parents turn out not only ok but even achieve success against odds.

If mother didn't know about the kid's tendencies and didn't facilitate weapon procurement she isn't guilty. It's insane to think she is. By same logic every parent of every kid who killed someone should go to prison, why does it matter what the weapon of the murder is? If parenting is the cause of the kid committing a crime like some think, then any kid committing a crime did so because of their parents and parents should be incarcerated.



I personally think going after the father is cruel. He had a wife for a drug addict and it sounds like he was doing his best under the circumstances. The kid denied the allegations and, most importantly, the FBI let it go. There was no reason for the father to think his son was going to do that.


There is probably more information than we know about. Gun could have been improperly stored or other signs were ignored. Can a 14 year old even own a gun or is it technically the father’s?

HE GAVE HIS 14-YEAR-OLD WHO HAD BEEN INVESTIGATED BY THE FBI A GUN. FOR CHRISTMAS.


The 2nd Amendment allows him to do this.

Imagine the outrage from the NRA, Republicans in Congress, Fox News, etc if the cops and FBI start confiscating gun from parents with f#cked up male teens before they committed any crime.

I blame the Supreme Court and toxic American gun culture for every mass shooting. They hyperventilate anytime law enforcement tries to prevent violence by restricting convenient access to firearms.
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Anonymous wrote:Yet the FBI protected this kid by doing absolutely nothing when they were alerted. They must be investigated. Or is this just another FBI failure and part of life and we should get used to it?


The FBI followed the 2A as interpreted by the current Supreme Court. They can’t remove guns from adults who committed no crime.

That’s the life you want in the USA.
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Anonymous wrote:Yet the FBI protected this kid by doing absolutely nothing when they were alerted. They must be investigated. Or is this just another FBI failure and part of life and we should get used to it?


What is it you'd have the FBI do? Take away the guns? Okay, I'm good with that.
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Anonymous wrote:Wondering if school administrators will be also arrested for allowing Colt to be relentlessly bullied?

Evidence of this? He had only been in that school a few weeks.
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Anonymous wrote:The shooter dad was evicted for not paying rent yet had money to buy thousands of dollars of guns and ammunition. 2A priorities!


He won't be worrying about rent now! And the FBI gets to take his guns away. Win/win.

Indeed. Do we know if the shooter has siblings?
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Why isn’t a nerf gun sufficient?
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Anonymous wrote:Wondering if school administrators will be also arrested for allowing Colt to be relentlessly bullied?

Evidence of this? He had only been in that school a few weeks.


It was his 2nd day there.
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Anonymous wrote:Wondering if school administrators will be also arrested for allowing Colt to be relentlessly bullied?

Evidence of this? He had only been in that school a few weeks.


It was his 2nd day there.

So “relentlessly bullied” PP is lying then.
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Anonymous wrote:Wondering if school administrators will be also arrested for allowing Colt to be relentlessly bullied?

Evidence of this? He had only been in that school a few weeks.


Even still there are many kids who are bullied and don’t shoot up schools. There have been bullies all through history and school shootings are a relatively new phenomenon.
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Anonymous wrote:I def think the kid was strongly influenced negatively by parents who were nightmares and both contributed to this tragedy. FOR SURE.

But I think the kid in surrendering fairly easy prob did it to get attention as horrible and wrong as it is. The dad messed up most by buying him a weapon as a gift (WTF?!!) but the mom not being there and having a loss of stability in both parents equally messed up - definitely this is not all on the boy but on everyone around him. Sounds also like he was bullied by other kids.

As the poster child of a dysfunctional family myself, it's really really hard to come out of it in one piece. Esp in these times with guns, social media, etc. I can see how that kid was so messed up he didn't know where he was. No excuse and the parents 10000% for sure need to be punished but on some level, this was a tragedy more than what happened at the school and a tragedy for that entire family living the way they were.


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This kid was practically raising himself. It's like he was feral or something. It's so awful, and he never stood a chance. Is it only the sperm donor being charged? I know he's the one who purchased the gun, but I don't understand why the egg donor isn't being charged.


We don't know what she did. It is not against the law to be a drug addict or a bad parent.


I understand that. But he's being charged with cruelty to children, and I wondered if that also related to anything she participated in. She sounds horrible. You think she wasn't complicit in this?


He’s being charged with cruelty to children related to the 8 children his son shot with the gun he bought his son. It has nothing to do with his wife.


My question/thought/etc. is that the mother is still in that house, allowed the gun purchase, put up with it, kept it in the house, all of that. I know he purchased the gun, but they both had it in the house.


The mother was not allowed to contact the father directly and had to go through an intermediary so I doubt she was in the house.


She was too busy dtinking and using drugs.


So is every hobo on the street, it's not a crime. :roll: It's only a crime if she personally purchased the gun and handed it to the kid after being confronted by FBI for the threats kids made. Which is the reason the father was arrested from what I gather.

Bad parenting isn't a crime and isn't even always going to produce a maladjusted adult, not to mention a criminal or a psycho. Many kids who grow up with bad parents turn out not only ok but even achieve success against odds.

If mother didn't know about the kid's tendencies and didn't facilitate weapon procurement she isn't guilty. It's insane to think she is. By same logic every parent of every kid who killed someone should go to prison, why does it matter what the weapon of the murder is? If parenting is the cause of the kid committing a crime like some think, then any kid committing a crime did so because of their parents and parents should be incarcerated.



I personally think going after the father is cruel. He had a wife for a drug addict and it sounds like he was doing his best under the circumstances. The kid denied the allegations and, most importantly, the FBI let it go. There was no reason for the father to think his son was going to do that.


"Doing his best" doesn't involve buying his troubled teenager an AR-15 for Christmas. Nothing says "happy birthday, Jesus" like a weapon of mass murder, though, right?
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Anonymous wrote:Wondering if school administrators will be also arrested for allowing Colt to be relentlessly bullied?

Evidence of this? He had only been in that school a few weeks.


Even still there are many kids who are bullied and don’t shoot up schools. There have been bullies all through history and school shootings are a relatively new phenomenon.


It’s the parenting.

Kids under 18 can’t purchase guns. Responsible gun owners do not leave guns in places where kids can use them
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Anonymous wrote:Wondering if school administrators will be also arrested for allowing Colt to be relentlessly bullied?

Evidence of this? He had only been in that school a few weeks.


It was his 2nd day there.

So “relentlessly bullied” PP is lying then.


PP here. i live in Georgia. Reportedly, he was bullied in middle school, which is located near the high school.
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Anonymous wrote:Wondering if school administrators will be also arrested for allowing Colt to be relentlessly bullied?

Evidence of this? He had only been in that school a few weeks.


Even still there are many kids who are bullied and don’t shoot up schools. There have been bullies all through history and school shootings are a relatively new phenomenon.

Slapping schools as a “gun free” zone is another relatively new phenomenon.
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