Not really news, but relates to the VA incident

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Anyway, Starbuline told me that some guy at her school told the principal that another student was planning to shoot everyone up at school the next day. The poor kid got his house raided with police.

Honestly!!

Some of the people that have done this (more than just the situation you mentioned) are looking for attention. Others are serious. Others still are just as*holes looking to stir things up.

Anyone stupid enough to say something like that this soon after what happened on Monday, well, they'll get what's coming to them. I'm sure some will try to yell out "FREE SPEECH FREE SPEECH!" Well, perceived threat to safety of others, verbally given by an individual, is reason to assume they are serious. Thus, locked up, bye bye, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

If the kid that told the principal was only doing it to get at the other kid....lock his ass up for making a prank out of a tragedy.

My solution to this problem is to build some alternative schools for these mixed up or at risk kids. I think in some districts in big cities they have gay/lesbian trans-gender schools for those kids who would be subject to bullying and high drop out rates. So the same logic applies put kids with special needs in an environment where they can be helped without being bullied by NT's.

I think that whoever said it shouldn't even be playing with a piece, not even that wheelbarrow that nobody picks. If the police did that and I was somehow not afraid I'd go "Why are you interrupting me in the middle of my shower?!"

Those idiots need to get a grip. Even WE have enough logic not to make jokes out of that.

A dozen years ago we had a shootout at a college. The next day a guy walked into another class with a fake gun and ordered the women to line up on one side and the guys on another. They did. Then the prof told them it wasn't real, it was just to make a point about obeying that kind of order. The prof had tenure, all they did was reprimand him. I think he should've left the planet in the shuttle and not come back.

Shouldn't we treat these young gunmen like any other terrorist? We give them too much mileage in the press. Anybody considering such an action knows that *now* everybody will pay attention. We gotta make that not true. We don't need to see a pic of the kid. We don't need to give it a week solid press coverage, including lots of angst about whether society had done him wrong. If we remove the glamour, we might reduce the likelihood?

Wasn'tsome guy arrested because he made a statement in a class that could have been interpretted as supporting the shooting? I can't remember which state.

There's already a thead about that:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... ic&t=30521

SCARY!! !

Before the VA Tech tragedy I remember hearing of several incidents in '06 where kids were permanently kicked out of school and some were put in juvenile centers over joking about wanting to shoot someone. Also people can be arrested under the homeland security bill if they say they want to commit a terrorist act even if they are really just some stupid youngster that was trying to get attention and never intended real violence. Wasn't there even a girl in Ohio or somewhere that said something violent against Bush and FBI raided her home and took her away for awhile?

This is no laughing matter anyway. People should never joke about wanting to kill others. It can get you in a lot of trouble. And its not funny to try to make jokes like that anyway.

^Agreed, that person should be the one getting the FBI raid.

This all reminds me, that this is why I stopped going to the Dean/faculty for help in high school after Columbine. The last thing I need is for them to claim I brought the bullying on myself, and I'm probaly a psycho killer. I wouldn't put it past them. After all they had the gall to tell me how scared the bullies in school were, after Columbine. I said good, they deserve to feel the fear they instill in me every day here.

Yes! How did you know?