School Shooting in Georgia - Same Old Failures
Can we finally get serious about preventing these?
Yesterday, there was a school shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia. The piece of sh!t (POS) suspect was a 14 year old who managed to kill 4 people and injure 9 others, and likely mentally scarred hundreds more.
The POS suspect is reported to have had a history of mental problems, although just how severe still remains to be seen.
Just over a year ago, the POS and his father were contacted by local cops (who were referred there by the FBI) after the POS made some threatening social media posts about shooting up a school, including pictures of some guns. It was determined that, while worrisome, there was not sufficient evidence to arrest him.
Yesterday, the same POS took a gun (reportedly an AR-15) to school and cowardly attacked a bunch of unarmed people, then promptly surrendered as soon as he encountered armed resistance (a cop).
As a parent, if your kid has mental health issues, guns are not a good idea. As a parent, if you find out your kid has been threatening to shoot up a school, you don't let him anywhere near your guns, ever. As a parent, if you don't already have a secure safe, you better go out and get one, and a secure one. Not some rinky dink thin sheet metal lock box that can be pried open with a Harbor Freight screwdriver.
In my experience as a street cop, I cannot count the number of times I dealt with school kids and parents at their homes regarding issues at school, and the parents swore up and down on a bible that their precious angel would never do that (whatever it was) and that the entire school was lying about their kid who was totally innocent. When I was a kid, it was the exact opposite and the parents were smart enough to understand kids do dumb things then lie when caught, so they believed the school over their kid (as it should be).
I will not be surprised in the least if that is what was going on at the POS suspect's home.
As a parent, your job is to raise a productive member of society. Not to be a friend to your kid. Parent is a verb as much as it is a noun. It is a job, not just a title. Do your Freaking Job!!!
On top of that, as soon as it was announced the suspect used an AR-15, the usual idiots came out of the woodwork screaming about "military-style weapons" and all the other usual dumb crap.
If you are concerned about the type of gun that was used, you are a freaking idiot!
A moderately trained shooter with decent tactics could do far more damage in less time with a run of the mill handgun than this POS did with the AR. In fact, from the reports, the suspect tried to get into a classroom (before the shooting started) but was prevented because the person at the door saw the rifle. If it was a handgun, he could have concealed it and would have been let in and at that point, it would have been shooting fish in a barrel.
Stop focusing on the gun used. You don't treat fat people by taking away their freaking fork. Focus on the suspects and their mental health issues that are being ignored or just treated with drugs.
It is long past time to bring back secure, involuntary mental health hospitals. Get these psychos off the streets! As a society, we used to understand this, but thanks to the ACLU, the crazies now roam the streets.
We need #PsychopathControl, not #GunControl
And before people go there, as much as I don’t trust the FBI lately, this is not a failure on their part. Their job is to investigate crimes on a federal level, and this incident does not meet that criteria. This is 100% a local law enforcement type of crime/investigation. The FBI did their job properly by referring the threat tips they received to the correct local agency.
This is also not necessarily a failure on the part of the local cops either. Without seeing exactly what they were given to investigate in May of 2023, there is no way to say if they dropped the ball or if they handled it correctly. Not everything cops investigate rises to the level of an arrestable offense. Cops cannot predict the future. This is not Minority Report and we can’t arrest people for crimes they are going to commit in the future.
I agree. We can also implement things to make our schools safer. No glass entry doors, doors locked once school starts. No one goes in. If you need to pick up your child, a staff member will bring him/her out to you. Metal detectors at all entrances with retired LEOs at each. All classroom doors with quick locks. Armed and trained teachers who sole function is to protect their students, not go looking for shooter.
100% Correct! People now days always say my child wouldn’t do something like that. By the time a child is in their teens now, they have been exposed to the worst of life. Unlike 30 years ago.
They are capable of doing anything.