Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

seems like a particularly egregious case of neglect/cheerleading

Prosecutor alleges parents of Oxford High School shooting suspect left gun unlocked and failed to take action on reports of disturbing behavior at school. The mother allegedly wrote in a text to him after one report: "lol I'm not mad at you, you have to learn not to get caught" pic.twitter.com/BiR9VTu1U7

— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 3, 2021

I don't see this as a tactic that will become common, it sounds like the parents neglect here was particularly egregious

yeah unusual facts in this one, can't remember parents having this much forewarning in any other case

yikes

Jesus Christ, that kid was the dictionary definition of a red flag.

Some moron pulled the fire alarm at my kids high school two days ago. Everyone just kept looking at each other like, are we really supposed to leave? Is this a fire drill? Is this really an alarm? Even the teacher wasn't sure how to proceed. He carefully poked his head out to check to see what the other classrooms were doing. Everyone seemed to recognize that the prospects of a school shooting felt at least as good if not better than the prospects of an actual fire. This bullshit puts everybody on edge.

Just reading this morning that apparently the kid's parents were called in to a meeting at the school about his behavior the morning of the shooting and he was still sent him back to class and it is extremely possible he had the gun he used in the shooting in his backpack during that very meeting.

yep. Also the mom texted him the second a report of an active shooter came through: "Ethan don't do it".

As a parent of a teenager, I sympathize parents who don't always know what their kid is up to or thinking. It's immensely difficult to suss out. But in this case, everything seemed to be very apparent. There were clearly multiple warnings. I don't know what led up to them buying him a fucking gun, but there is no situation where that is the responsible reaction.

It's like We Need To Talk About Kevin - "our kid seems alienated & distraught.. let's get him started on new a hobby involving deadly weapons"

"you have to learn not to get caught" - we have said the same thing to our kid, but his crime was drawing a penis in wet concrete.

let's not forget the part where they bought the gun for the kid!

my bad mentioned above but obv these parents are wack af

Andy that book terrified me pre-Alt Right era. Nowadays I couldn't reread if I wanted to

The bad parents are on the lam

In a shock twist, authorities then revealed that the whereabouts of the Crumbleys were not currently known, prompting law enforcement to effectively launch a manhunt for them with the Oakland county fugitive apprehension team.

Holy shit.

maybe they're sovereign citizens that don't fall under michigan legal jurisdiction

Jesus christ

The parents were summoned to the school a few hours before the shooting occurred after a teacher found a drawing of a gun, a person bleeding and the words “help me” and “blood everywhere” and included a laughing emoji

"that's our ethan! he'll be fine."

the lady lays it all out in that twitter video posted above

Beginning of the Trump administration: “There’s gonna be a lot of work for lawyers.”

Beginning of the post Trump administration era: “There’s gonna be a lot of work for bailsbondsmen and marshalls.”

And also lawyers

Those details are horrific.

(Those two posts probably should’ve been in a different thread.)

tbh if i was them i'd run too

that they bought the gun as a black friday purchase is the darkest layer to me. this story is an american socio political voltron

The store where the pistol was purchased

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extremely dark, i know there are tons of bad parents but it's still just unbelievable to me that someone would act like this

“Ethan don’t do it *laughing crying emoji*”

banality of evil doesn't do it justice

Here's the corrected timeline: pic.twitter.com/a7HLK0SC3N

— Aaron Parseghian (@AaronParseghian) December 3, 2021

“Ethan don’t do it *laughing crying emoji*”

the emoji thing is not true, right?

Correct.

He drew an emoji on the disturbing picture that alarmed his teacher

so they parked their car in front of their hideout 🤣

Yeah, the really dangerous nuts are probably off the grid already, training and sitting in beard-braiding circles. Apparently these big talking amateurs, when faced with a "go-bag" situation, have no idea what to do with themselves (thank goodness).

I was only speaking the other day about how you could write a decent satire of (elements of) our age entitled A Clockwork Crylaugh

My mom uses it when she texts me about anything sad. Yes I've tried to tell her.

not mad at them they have to learn not to get caught

so I know laywers regularly lie, but in this case, aren't their defense lawyers risking anything by how blatantly they are lying about things, insisting still that they weren't on the run and had every intention to turn themselves in when it's very very obvious they were not doing this?

I promise you don’t know where this is going pic.twitter.com/I1XRWIM6Jr

— k🃏 (@skepticalspice) December 4, 2021

As a parent of a teenager, I sympathize parents who don't always know what their kid is up to or thinking. It's immensely difficult to suss out. But in this case, everything seemed to be very apparent. There were clearly multiple warnings. I don't know what led up to them buying him a fucking gun, but there is no situation where that is the responsible reaction.

― akm, Friday, December 3, 2021 2:19 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

idk about posts like these. People immediately put themselves in the place of the parents i.e., "if this was my kid"; but like, I think its achingly obvious that these parents didn't really give a fuck about their kid or anything, and just showing the type of empathy required to ask "what would I do in their shoes" is a good indication that you would never be in their shoes

I keep thinking of the Sandy Hook shooting (which happened a few miles from where I grew up) where the murderer was very obviously a troubled kid and his parents thought it was a great idea to buy him a gun too.

“My kid really seems interested in blood and death and revenge against unnamed enemies he really needs a safe fun hobby like shooting.”

Merry Christmas! 🎄
ps. Santa, please bring ammo. 🎁 pic.twitter.com/NVawULhCNr

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 4, 2021

Jesus fucking Christ

🤮

🤢

Stuff like that will never seem anything less than bizarre and unsettling to me.

Having the most normal one in history

Needs heavily armed grandkids

Dude is probably squealing with glee at all the people calling him a dipshit right now

He did retweet Vic Berger’s photoshop of him pantsless

Elected Congressman Thomas Massie out here making America proud, folks. pic.twitter.com/GIMH8breM8

— Victor Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) December 4, 2021