How idiotic. You don't arrest middle-schoolers for this kind of stuff. What you do is give them detention and make them write an essay on why it was a dumb idea and how they'll never do it again. Arresting them just traumatizes them. It doesn't make the school and students any safer, and it provides no deterrent to real threats against schools. It's just a huge waste of time and money.
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2025
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Good luck with that in a zero tolerance environment like the US
Uh, no, you don't do anything to them because this is clearly an expression of free speech reflecting the environment these kids live in, and clearly not a threat towards anyone whatsoever.
The only thing we need to do in response is fix the environment we've created where children think of school shootings so casually that they would make something like this.
“11-year olds have to be held accountable through the court-system”
A true testament to a full police state, what the fuck happened to education and childhood in the US?
aaaand now those kids will never tell anyone their thoughts about school violence. good job.
Kids traumatized by school shootings express themselves via media that others find distasteful? Straight to jail.
Overabundance of guns makes the US the only major country in the world where school gun violence is a daily occurrence? “Thoughts and prayers…”
No no, y'see, the actual crime they're being charged with is "making the people in power look bad"
Probably the same fucks that cried foul when a kid got suspended for drawing a picture of a gun.
Edit: ambiguous statement
or that kid who made a "don't come to school tomorrow" joke on RUNESCAPE in the UK and got several years in prison.
Damn. I get the time-sensitive nature of threats but if you kick in the door and find nothing put him in an after school program or some shit.
"But this was on TikTok and we've been told to hate that, so..."
literally drawing a gun, mind you.
The police lieutenant said they needed to be held accountable in a court of law for their crimes....
Dude, they are 13 year olds making a video about a traumatic childhood reality, not threatening anyone or even making jokes about it. If you really think they were threatening a mass shooting, then you deal with that in an appropriate investigation. If you think they were joking about something bad... they are 13-year-olds, that's what they do!!
EDIT: This lieutenant is the kind of guy who thinks it is justifiable to shoot your gun at people toilet-papering your house, which is a real event that killed a kid at the highschool I went to.
A group of 11 year olds made an irreverent joke? My god, what is society coming to.