The All Time Greatest Random Mass Shooting Thread

It doesn't.

Nope.

It seems to me that school officials should also face some kind of legal action. The kid sounds like he's got some mental health problems, and when the parents refused to take the kid out of school, officials should have contacted mental health professionals and not sent the kid back to class.

If you threw everyone who scribbled "my life is useless" and "the world is dead" out of school, there wouldn't be any Goth kids left.



And I hope the parents aren't running. That would be colossally stupid.

Can't risk hurting the little darling's feelings. Much more reasonable to saddle the whole of society with the futile objective of tailoring the world to his dysfunction.

Futile?

Yes. Futile. There are more guns than people in this country, and kicking in doors to confiscate them will not work out the way you might hope.

Also futile to try and sell me on the idea that tailoring society to its most dysfunctional, impulsive members is the way to go.

Once again, obvious warning signs were ignored by the people who could have intervened, and once again, the "preventive" measure for future incidents will be expected of everyone but those people.

You're all such special snowflakes.

I must be, for your inability to refute any of that.

And, apparently, they are colossally stupid.

I do not get why police do not charge these people with all the laws they break, but they do not.

To go back to kyle rittenhouse they could have charged him with a number of laws they did not. Hunting laws limit where you can fire a gun. I do not know a state that doesn't restrict gunfire near homes, roads, and businesses. You cannot hunt in a city because it is illegal to discharge a firearm near a residence, over a road, or near a business. The definition of firearm would include things like long guns, pellet guns, BB guns, paintball guns, sling shots, and things that fire arrows or other projectiles. I know these things exist because I know the restrictions on paintball and how paintball guns are firearms in every state because of hunting laws.

The proud boys and trump people firing paintballs at others are breaking laws because every state and many towns limit discharges of firearms near where people live, drive, and do business.

Why is it so hard for the cops to charge these people with these crimes? It is something.

Dude, I'm agreeing with you. Americans are an exceptional case where things that work universally would behave differently. You're very special and unique.

Dude, you just made my Irony meter form a vortex to another universe with your lack of self awareness.

So you know you are stewart smalley trying to be a special snowflake?

I know it’s self deprecating humor.

Ok, but that still does not explain what happened to my irony meter. Perhaps I accidentally pointed it at UA?

It certainly does from my point of view, but from a legal point of view?

What if I beamed them all into the sun?
Then what?

Parents of alleged Michigan school shooter arrested after manhunt

Naw, there was enough from this one to set off meters several states away:

Whelp I was wrong. It looks the parents basically did enable the kid to do the shooting. This has got to be the most preventable shooting, ever.

As does everyone who fails to secure their guns.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/at...-stolen-cars-2021/CGYW25AEJVE5LOFFJ7XQGH2E4E/

When did you become such a piece of shit?

The kid didn't just scribble "my life is useless." He drew pictures of people being shot and killed.

Relax, it's just a joke.

1) Kids are dead. If you're joking, you're a cunt. Not that you haven't proven that continuously these last few years, but still.

2) His point stands - the shooter DID write "my life is useless" and "the world is dead" BUT HE DID NOT JUST WRITE THAT.

3) Even if he hadn't... if I saw any of my students writing that, I would refer the case to support services. You might want to chuckle at "emo kids" but that's almost exactly what I myself thought (not wrote) in my teens when I was seriously close to suicide. I've never been a Goth/emo... my idea of music as a teen was Meatloaf FFS.

And I've seen very similar writings (where they didn't think I would ever see) from a very non-Goth/emo employee - albeit after they left my team (they'd written their feelings in a notebook that also had lab notes, so it was left in a drawer and they forgot to tear out the page when they left). I contacted that person to let them know 1) I had destroyed the writings and 2) the sentiments they'd conveyed weren't the case. They admitted they were close to the edge when they wrote them (felt worthless and like an imposter, thankfully not due to anything I had done but had I known at the time I would have let them know the exact opposite was true).

Don't EVER handwave away a statement like that as "just kids being emo". It might be. If it isn't, and a supportive word could have helped, you may have just facilitated a suicide.

Or, in this case, a shooting spree.