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+1. I'm as liberal as they come, but the guy deserves the weight of the law to come down on him like a ton of bricks for even hinting at considering to shoot k

• darkarmani 13y ago
  > but the guy deserves the weight of the law to come down on him like a ton of bricks for even hinting at considering to shoot kids in a school. They never found any evidence that he even said it. FB didn't give them access to his account. A screenshot is easily faked.
• vidarh 13y ago
  So you're in fact not as liberal as they come. With a view like that you're pretty far from being liberal at all by my account. Personally, I'd consider a place where you could be convicted for making statements like the ones he did a police state. I say this as a father of a young boy who is at school right now. I find the very sentiment that this kid deserves the weight of the law to come down on him outright disgusting. Was it right to investigate? Yes. They might have found someone with a stockpile of weapons getting ready to shoot up the local school or kindergarten - they didn't know the kid or the context of the statements. But the situation should have changed rapidly once they had searched his home and found nothing, had found nothing else to indicate he was going to actually shoot up a school, and found no evidence of actual planning or specific threats. Have him see a psychologist, maybe. That's about it.