Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

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

Maybe not the place for this, but is there some kind of school violence trigger circulating online today?

Feel free to tell me I’m nuts but anecdotally - what I’m seeing online and from friends - a lot seems to be going on today. Schools reporting that they’ve been threatened, etc

we had a threat at our local high school just yesterday, but apparently the school determined it was no big deal

Within three hours:

- a coworker in Ny state said that her daughter’s school was on lockdown due to a “kill list”
- my son’s school texted parents about a vague security threat in Tx
- a high school in Maryland near where a friend lives was investigating another security threat

But maybe this is just contemporary America

13 yr old arrested in the next town over from me for "making terrorist threats" against the middle school

is there some kind of school violence trigger circulating online today?

well the 10-year anniversary of sandy hook is in a couple of days. but also yeah, it's just the good ole u.s. of a.