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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.
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…