Mass Shooting & Gun Violence | LDS Church Attacked

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Calheel said:
It will be worse than that. He will likely face manslaughter charges at a minimum. This seems worse than the Michigan parents.
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It is worse, and the charges should also be worse. But it’s Georgia, so let’s see what happens.
 
When was the threat to the school? I thought it was toward the end of last school year (after Christmas).

Still, prison for the dad. Just want to know HOW horrific this decision was in relation to knowing the dangers.
 
HeelInTheOzarks said:
When was the threat to the school? I thought it was toward the end of last school year (after Christmas).

Still, prison for the dad. Just want to know HOW horrific this decision was in relation to knowing the dangers.
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From the CNN story —

The timeline the teen’s father, Colin Gray, provided to authorities would put the gun purchase months after authorities first contacted Gray and his family to investigate school shooting threats made online.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia closed that investigation because the tip about the threat could not be substantiated.
 
lawtig02 said:
From the CNN story —

The timeline the teen’s father, Colin Gray, provided to authorities would put the gun purchase months after authorities first contacted Gray and his family to investigate school shooting threats made online.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia closed that investigation because the tip about the threat could not be substantiated.
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YIKES
 
From an earlier article it mentioned the early investigation into the threats was dropped both because it couldn’t be substantiated but also because the father said the kid “didn’t have access to my rifles”

So he fucking bought him his own.
 
lawtig02 said:
So, if I’m reading correctly, sometime last year the police speak with the shooter’s dad after he posts online about wanting to shoot up a middle school. Then, last December, the dad buys the kid an AR-15 for a Christmas present. Are you f’ing kidding me???
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Just responsible gun owner giving a good guy a gun. A father raising his son right.
At least, this is how they each would have been described by gun right activists at the time.
 
And this is why the current laws aren't enough. The assault rifles need to be banned. They sure as hell shouldn't be so easy to get. Sounds like the dad had no business being able to get his son one.
 
Kraftyheel89 said:
Only back because I saw you responded. Yes, it is a wonderful thing. But I do not want to use it on everyone I disagree with, that is not discussion or debate.

I do not remember him on the old board. Is he like this on every subject? I would find it annoying even on topics we agree. And I don't disagree with his original point here. It's just that he is trying to use that point to shut down ALL disgust and desire to change things for the better. It is very obvious, the ploy.
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He was pretty out there.
 
CarolinaFever said:
And this is why the current laws aren't enough. The assault rifles need to be banned. They sure as hell shouldn't be so easy to get. Sounds like the dad had no business being able to get his son one.
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No one has any business buying a gun for someone else. Even their kids.

If you want to take your kids hunting, then you control the weapon until you are in the woods. When finished you take the weapon back and don't let them keep it in their room.
 
CarolinaFever said:
And this is why the current laws aren't enough. The assault rifles need to be banned. They sure as hell shouldn't be so easy to get. Sounds like the dad had no business being able to get his son one.
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At this point, I don’t really care if these guns are “that” powerful, or if you need them to hunt wild pigs, or whatever. They’re used in such a massively disproportionate number of mass killings that they need to be taken off the market immediately, if for no other reason than to slow down the copycats. That’s no where close to enough, of course, but it is literally insane to me that we still allow these particular guns to be sold in this country.
 
nycfan said:
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Yes, let's not try to do anything at all that could make them less easier to carry out, and give people a better chance to survive, like getting rid of weapons of war that only have one purpose, to kill as many people as fast as possible and as easy as possible.
 
Charlotte1204 said:
Has anyone heard if the school has metal detectors? I’m curious how he got it in the school to start with.
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I was really curious of that too. It's not like he smuggled a pistol into a backpack. This was a rifle.

I was thinking back to my high school and how I might do it and I would probably hide it in the woods or maybe a car before school and then I guess you could walk it in without anybody noticing if it was in the middle of the school day.
 
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gtyellowjacket said:
I was really curious of that too. It's not like you smuggled a pistol into a backpack. This was a rifle.

I was thinking back to my high school and how I might do it and I would probably hide it in the woods or maybe a car before school and then I guess you could walk it in without anybody noticing if it was in the middle of the school day.
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Yeah. Our middle and highs schools have metal detectors at the main entrances, but like you say, where there’s a will, there’s a way.
 
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