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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen the Tx governor said unlike other shootings there were no warning signs
Like wearing a trenchcoat everyday and posting pictures of guns and wearing a born to kill shirt aren't signs why do Republicans have to step on others to compliment themselves?
Kotya
(235 posts)It's easy to look back after a violent act and say, "there were signs we should have seen!" yet schools everywhere have kids just like Dimitrios Pagourtzis; the geeky outcasts who wear trenchcoats and boast of violent fantasies.
The overwhelming majority of these kids will find their identities and grow into functioning, stable adults who look back on their adolescent years thinking, "that was a hard time but I got through it."
I don't know what the answer is. Do we grow suspicious of every outcast?
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)Anyone who saw his just deleted FB page would have been horrified at what they found.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Teen-suspect-in-Santa-Fe-shooting-promoted-12926019.php
benld74
(9,901 posts)By his
Peers
Adults
Coaches
To his face
In front of classmates
Nobody did anything to stop it
Said anything
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LisaL
(44,967 posts)Presumably there are a lot of teenagers posting similar things on social media. Neither of these signs is a direct threat. Because of our laws we can't even do much with a direct threat. Let alone with a posting of a t-shirt that says "born to kill."
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)And didnt lock them up. Thats the single biggest warning sign for homicide or suicide among teenage boys.
LisaL
(44,967 posts)In a lot of the mass shootings, guns either belonged to the parents, but parents failed to keep guns away from their offspring, or actually purchased guns for their offspring.
duforsure
(11,884 posts)Abbott is like Cruz and trump , just another serial liar promoting their propaganda when kids are being killed for them to get their blood money from the NRA.