Stop allowing children to have guns. Thank you for your attention to this mater.
I would suggest not relying on Mater to fix the gun problems. He is an international spy but I don’t think he’s got the tools to fix this problem…
For fucking real! Like I had a bb gun as a kid and that’s it, and that was Florida parents! These people live in Portland and have their 13year old multiple ARs and handguns‽ This investigation into them should not take long.
The boy’s mother, who attended the court hearing, suggested in an interview afterward that the social media posts were an attempt to “be cool” among peers, KOMO-TV reported.
Obviously this is mom’s attempt to undersell her child’s plans, but I fully believe this has become a legit motive for young shooters. It’s hard to fully articulate my theory, but it’s something like: the more they rely on social media for self-esteem and validation, the less connected they feel to real-life people and events. They scroll through an endless stream of videos of humiliation, war crimes, pranks, and memes while having fewer of these experiences in real life. For some young people, their greatest achievement is to post a “deviant lick” that goes viral - a shocking inside joke that will label them a “fucking legend.” Add in a heavy dose of climate doom and cynical comments like, “Younger generations are totally fucked.” If someone feels like they have no future, at least they can grab a gun and blast their anger and despair at some NPCs while livestreaming for one last chance for some online attention.
Yes, it would help if guns are less accessible, but we NEED to be working on the epidemic of social isolation.
Lock the mother up
Short of a diagnosis of psychosis or sociopathy that’s one hardcore indoctrinated kid. If his mother didn’t teach him to hate she sure as hell didn’t teach him how to love.
Wonderfully said. I don’t think he learned it from his mother, he probably learned it online while his mother ignored him— or, just never thought to look what her child was doing online, which is a parents responsibility.
But who knows, maybe she’s tied to some crazy right wing organization!
23? Jeez
I don’t quite understand why that make such a big deal over the number of them. It’s not like they’re some 20 armed Hindu god, you can only carry and operate so many at one time.
Because it speaks to the mindset of the family. They have better than $20,000 dollars worth of guns and ammo strewn around the house and hanging on the walls as decorations. They are gun fetishists and have clearly passed on that mindset to their child.
Probably the same reason the media does most things, it gets clicks. I agree with you though, I know people that have a huge number of guns, but they collect them, and it doesn’t make them any more dangerous than some guy with 2 unless they’re trying to arm a group of people with old hunting rifles and weirdly specific revolvers of all different calibers.
23 and Spree.
Wow that’s some poor parenting going on.
Nihilistic psychosis, mother and child and all of American society.
