+1 Nailed it. I absolutely believe this. There were parents in our school like this - kid had anger issues, parent was triggered, parent taught kid to be triggered and violent. Powder keg waiting to explode. Instead of getting the kid professional help, the parent thought it would be "cool" to teach the violent kid how to physically hurt other students. Big family, too. I can only imagine the powder keg that is that family and their house (not home, house). For some parents, it's all about them - like how this couple fled and left the shooter behind. Rational and connected people don't think like them or understand how selfish some people are. |
| Go to any low income high school and the many of the parents are substances abusers, out of work (or working several jobs and not around), have no idea what kids are up to, and have guns at home. But these kids aren’t shooting randomly at school. What is it about THIS kid that caused it. Poor parents and access to guns describes a whole lot of teens unfortunately |
That’s a dump. They probably paid literally <$75k for it.
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Could either of them hold a job?? Great examples, great parents. Should have never bred. |
So now we’re going back to “economic anxiety”
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How much would that house be in Pimmit Hills? |
Including judging by the look of their modest house. I know a lot of people that live in homes like the one pictured but they are immaculate and raise good kids. |
Who cares. The house didn’t kill people. |
THIS. The school has a duty to protect the other students. I’d be suing the hell out of the school district and the administrators who failed the other students of the school. They have rights too. |
| The child had explosive anger issues, and he was radicalized at home. His parents may not have been DC wealthy, but they were rich enough to buy him a $1K gun for Christmas. Let's put the blame where it goes here. |
What about all the other families in the other houses you can see (and not see) on this road? Why did their kids NOT do this while living in "a dump"? And I agree...headed for Canada. |
I'm the one who posted the house and that was my point. Some folks want to blame this on poverty, but the actual issue is access to a gun. In all of the school shootings that we've had, this is the first I can remember where the gun wasn't just taken from the home but was rather gifted by the parents to the child in the weeks before the attack and during a clear mental health crisis. |
Everyone looks "off" in a mug shot. Regardless of what puts them in that situation-- big crime or small, chronic offender or one-off bad act-- they are generally freaked out and exhausted. It's silly to read anything into this photo. We have plenty of other info about this kid to consider and judge. And facial deformity PP-- You have a toe on a slippery slope to eugenics. |
+1 The issue is absolutely NOT poverty - I know wealthy parents who have created the same in their house. It's bad. |
Absolutely. Case in point - Nancy Lanza. Total enabler. |