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Earlier this month, a detective knocked on Shavon Harvey’s door, in suburban Ohio, to ask about her son. The son had sent a Snapchat message from her phone to his friends, saying there would be shootings at several schools nearby.
She rushed to the police station, where her son was already in custody, but the police did not release him. He was charged with inducing panic, a second-degree felony, and officials kept him in detention for 10 nights.
He is 10.
Cool story bro. Probably one you don’t want to broadcast to the world cuz it’s a pretty fucked up thing to do.
What pissed me off at the time (although at least I was a few years out of high school by then) was that practically all of my friends in high school wore black trench coats. I personally wore all black all the time- black trousers, never jeans, black turtleneck and black trench coat.
And then suddenly kids who dressed like I did in high school were getting suspected of being school shooters and not just weird drama club kids that thought that was the way trendy Europeans dressed.
It’s not fucked up. School shootings and processing them as children is fucked up. It’s like saying a child is fucked up for lying about being sick when “wow bro you know people actually get sick and die? And now you’re just playing??” It’s a child.
and yet despite how extreme and dark (and edgy) it was I suffered zero consequences and now we’re throwing babies in prison for eating a sandwich so it kinda looks like a gun.
I’m just pointing out there’s a middle ground we probably should be aiming for and we’ve blown right past it at some point.
Ok but you do realize that it’s largely because of people like you who did it to be edgy and shit that it’s such a big problem now…? Like you get that, right?
Like sure some places overreact a bit, but that’s not really… justification? And it doesn’t absolve you of contributing to the problem we have now by making people scared by being a weirdo edgelord copycat for funsies.
No, it’s a largely because of the kids shooting up schools.
Sane gun laws are the only reasonable response yet here we are 25 years later critiquing my stupid ass high school sense of humor instead of doing anything about it. but keep telling yourselves it’s anything besides the kid with access to a gun, it saves the Onion writing a different article.
They’re mad at you because you made jokes of a serious issue that only exists because the US is a dumb pace where guns have more rights than kids. If it were anywhere else it would just be an edgy joke. In the US it’s like dressing up in an SS uniform to a Holocaust convention… A little too edgy…