The phone call Wednesday morning warned there would be shootings at five schools, and that Apalachee would be the first.
I don’t know how many prank calls schools get. I also don’t know what the time gap was between the call and first shots. But that’s gonna get some scrutiny.
I also wonder if this was some kind of pact between 5 boys and maybe only one went through with it.
Or the “5 schools” part could have been a lie, or the call could have been totally unrelated. Though that’d be a hell of a coincidence.
Agree with almost all of that. Minor quibble: I don’t put Alito in the cult of personality category. He strikes me as a true believer in the cause and will fight to the death (perhaps literally) for that cause. He’d like to get personal credit, ala Scalia, but would do it even without personal credit.
You don’t know what you are talking about. Those solutions are being widely implemented nationwide. But shootings that don’t happen don’t make the news.
Just last week, my agency intervened and might have prevented a shooting. I won’t go into details - suffice to say, kid has gun at school, kid has lots of issues, parents uncooperative, kid is charged with felony crimes and removed from school. No school shooting occurs.
This happens every day all over the country. There would be a lot more school shootings if the tactics you say aren’t being used actually weren’t being used.
I visited SCOTUS last week. I was outraged to find that guns are banned in the building and they even make you go through a metal detector. It is almost as though SCOTUS doesn’t think that more guns make you safer.
RIP to the victims.
I have zero doubt that some crimes are being prevented in much the same way security and anti terrorism agencies prevent other atrocities but just the fact that this needs to happen in schools is mad when viewed through the eyes of people from other countries that do not experience (they obviously experience their own issues but this is a pretty unique to the US problem)
Many other countries are having the debate about banning phones for kids in schools…
Sadly, I think the opposite will happen. The more this occurs, the less likely things will change. It will become routine and run of the mill. If not already.
The time to have made change is when the first event occurred.
“The father of the mass shooting suspect accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, told investigators this week he had purchased the gun used in the killings as a holiday present for his son in December 2023, according to two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.“
Dad has been arrested and charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.
Add to this the dad bought the gun for a 14 year old with a history of mental illness and after the police investigated the teen for making online threats about shooting up a school.
Because you can’t think that a family can have a fun time with the sport of shooting or hunting? It is ok, I am sure that there are activities that that family thinks your family is absolutely insane too.
Should the father of a kid with a potential mental illness and past history threatening people? Hell no! That doesn’t mean that shooting sports can’t be done in a fun and safe manner.
I think shooting sports are fun and can be shared with the family. Training and secure storage are critical. Giving a gun to a 14-year-old with mental illness issues is totally insane. The dad belongs in prison for a very long time.
