Comments on: Student Arrested For School Shooting Threat That Circulated Statewide

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 08 May 2023 15:04:53 +0000

@Just Saying

We had bad parents 50 years ago. We also had a robust mental health network that was systematically dismantled in the name of “saving money for taxpayers”.

If you want to reduce the number of crazy, violent people out there? Open publicly funded addiction counseling services. Make our prisons rehabilitative instead of punitive. Expand access to mental healthcare resources. Increase wages and invest in affordable housing.

If you want to make it harder for crazy, violent people to kill? Prevent them from accessing firearms with background checks, mandatory safety classes, and a national gun registry.

There are meaningful steps that we can take to save children. But y’all aren’t interested in those. The best you can do is post “thoughts and prayers” on your Facebook page and wait until tomorrow’s shooting.

It’s disgusting.

By: John Bone Jones

John Bone Jones — Mon, 08 May 2023 13:37:22 +0000

guns don’t kill people… bullets do.

By: TB

TB — Mon, 08 May 2023 13:06:27 +0000

Make no mistake it’s bad parenting, I have never seen such rotten disrespectful children in my lifetime.
8 year olds swearing at their parents and hitting them.
Lazy parents using tablets and smartphones to occupy their kids while they do their own thing.
Parent leaving the kids for the street to raise them while they go clubbing.
We were involved in our children’s lives growing up and we kept them in public activities like softball, cheerleading over at the park by Truman Arms and school activities because we didn’t have much money back then but our kids were our life.
We made sure that education was a priority and that they stayed in school and studied.
The end result was they grew up decent, respectful and way more successful than we ever were.

By: Someone

Someone — Mon, 08 May 2023 00:06:32 +0000

Since people like to say “gun violence” do they call stabbings knife violence and car accidents car violence?

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sun, 07 May 2023 18:43:00 +0000

“The message suggested the presence of a bomb at the school. However, the message did not indicate any school or location; it only contains generalities.”

Interesting how many focused on guns when explosives were implied.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sun, 07 May 2023 18:39:59 +0000

contemplating:
“NOTHING I DONE TO STOP IT”

So you admit you “done nothing” to stop it? I guess that absolves the rest of us.

Confusion between fame and infamy is part of the problem. People talk about some evil deed and those who want to be famous decide they can swing it by doing something evil too. Or they have some conflict and decide to settle it by murder.

Before portable guns were common, folks often used bombs, knives, spears, poison, fire. Guns can at least be selective. If someone wants to kill me, they aren’t forced to kill everyone around me.

David for better people and better armor

By: Just Saying

Just Saying — Sun, 07 May 2023 13:55:14 +0000

@Joy, Josh Jones and Bob,

Surely you guys aren’t ignorant enough to think that gun availability is the problem here. Guns are less available now than they were 40 and 50 years ago when EVERYBODY had multiple guns in their homes and vehicles.

The problem is not the guns. The problem is lack of parenting and personal accountability that causes these kids to have mental problems that the parents sweep under the rug because , “hey, not my child “ and then they do horrible things like shooting up a school! Only people who “aren’t right in the head” do things like this. Don’t blame the guns for parent’s failings!

By: mnon

mnon — Sun, 07 May 2023 06:31:56 +0000

LOL “ban guns” This will never happen in the US without a fight. If by some crazy miracle, the US Gov could even pull it off and we turned in every single gun. We’d just start killing each other with swords, spears, and bows again… Not to mention any other modern lethal means with electricity… Do you honestly think guns are the problem?

People’s hearts are the problem, it is called the decay of society. It’s going to get even worse before it gets better; if it ever gets better. I’m not counting on that too much.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 07 May 2023 03:03:18 +0000

@JJ

Japan plays more video games than us. We have more school shootings.

The UK watches more TV than us. We have more school shootings.

Super Mario Brothers isn’t killing our kids. Neither is Game of Thrones. Kids are getting shot with guns.

By: JJ

JJ — Sat, 06 May 2023 21:38:09 +0000

GUNS!GUNS!GUNS
NO!NO! NO!
likely all these video games and tv shows
only gun that fired on its own was Alec Balwin.LOL