Have we become used to or immune to mass shootings? - Page 26

Undertoad · 11-17-2018, 01:23 PM

I was being ironic earlier. This is the community.

I play the long game. You took a long while to notice. You are here because we need your training.

Griff · 11-18-2018, 04:39 PM

anonymous · 02-09-2019, 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anonymous

My stepson was involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric hospital last night after revealing to ER staff his detailed plan to shoot up his high school. So, you know. Fun times.

(I'm sure y'all know who this is, but medical confidentiality and all that.)

I'm fucking tired.

Stepson was released today after 2 court dates and 10.5 months in multiple locked-down mental institutions. We've done everything we can, but it's not our call. He has to actually shoot or stab someone before he can be committed again, despite statements to the effect of, "I don't feel like killing anyone right this minute, but I do still believe there would be great glory in killing as many people as possible."

If any Dwellars know people whose kids attend high school in the Houston area, DM me for more info. I'm serious as shit.

sexobon · 02-09-2019, 03:28 PM

Keep in mind that you'll have no control over what others do with whatever information you give them. That can range from blowing it off to instigating his peers to conduct a preemptive strike. He's not the only one in an age group that's been known to get away with violence including murder.

anonymous · 02-09-2019, 07:59 PM

I'm not identifying him personally (hence the anonymous account.) I'm just willing to let them know which high school they may want to transfer out of, if they are in a packing-up-and-moving kind of mood.

anonymous · 02-09-2019, 08:01 PM

Also perhaps worth noting: when he entered his most recent residential facility, he was the first planned-school-shooter they'd ever had. By the time he left today, he was one of three.

It's a problem.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-09-2019, 08:07 PM

Is the school aware of his hobby?

anonymous · 02-09-2019, 08:45 PM

The old school certainly was--one hospital notified local police after his biological mom refused to cooperate with medical professionals, and the sergeant assigned to the case was the permanent officer at the high school. When my stepson was transferred from one facility to another, it was in the back of this police officer's vehicle. He definitely can't go back to the old school, but the district as a whole has to take him as long as he hasn't done anything expellable.

We're unclear as to how far Bio Mom has moved forward with her choice of new school. It may be wishful thinking on her part. The district may know everything at an upper level already, and tell her it's the disciplinary high school or nothing. Or they may have their hands tied as well, if she can get a medical professional to sign off on him being stable. As of right now, he's transferring to a day program that allows him to sleep at home at night, but that only happened after Bio Mom was informed that her first choice of an afternoons-only day program (so he could jump back into school immediately) was medically unacceptable. The all-day-program may keep him for up to several months, but by August he'll definitely be in full-time school again if she has her way--or, possibly he'll have snapped again and be back in a facility, or jail, or dead.

The best I can realistically foresee happening is he attacks someone non-lethally before his 18th birthday, so he's tried as a minor and spends the rest of his life in a mental hospital. All other scenarios have worse outcomes for both him and everyone else. I'd love to be an optimist and say he keeps this thing under control and lives a productive life, but I've talked to him for too many hours about this stuff and I don't believe it's possible.

sexobon · 02-09-2019, 10:30 PM

From what you've written, it seems unlikely he'll attack just someone as he seems interested in numbers. He also seems interested in the killing more so than doing it by shooting. Restricted access to firearms and explosive materials may delay acting out; but, maintain awareness of alternate methods based upon availability and simplicity - like a chemical attack!

Nothing fancy, just old fashioned mass poisoning via contaminated foods or beverages at a gathering. There are plenty of products in the home and on store shelves that can be lethal if ingested. Let others be your taste testers when he's around and keep the poison control center number handy. Don't become collateral damage.

11-18-2018, 04:39 PM	#2
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	__________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

02-09-2019, 08:07 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Is the school aware of his hobby? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-17-2018, 01:23 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I was being ironic earlier. This is the community. I play the long game. You took a long while to notice. You are here because we need your training.

02-09-2019, 03:28 PM	#4
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	Keep in mind that you'll have no control over what others do with whatever information you give them. That can range from blowing it off to instigating his peers to conduct a preemptive strike. He's not the only one in an age group that's been known to get away with violence including murder.

02-09-2019, 07:59 PM	#5
anonymous Operations Operative Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: in hiding Posts: 578	I'm not identifying him personally (hence the anonymous account.) I'm just willing to let them know which high school they may want to transfer out of, if they are in a packing-up-and-moving kind of mood.

02-09-2019, 08:01 PM	#6
anonymous Operations Operative Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: in hiding Posts: 578	Also perhaps worth noting: when he entered his most recent residential facility, he was the first planned-school-shooter they'd ever had. By the time he left today, he was one of three. It's a problem.

02-09-2019, 08:45 PM	#8
anonymous Operations Operative Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: in hiding Posts: 578	The old school certainly was--one hospital notified local police after his biological mom refused to cooperate with medical professionals, and the sergeant assigned to the case was the permanent officer at the high school. When my stepson was transferred from one facility to another, it was in the back of this police officer's vehicle. He definitely can't go back to the old school, but the district as a whole has to take him as long as he hasn't done anything expellable. We're unclear as to how far Bio Mom has moved forward with her choice of new school. It may be wishful thinking on her part. The district may know everything at an upper level already, and tell her it's the disciplinary high school or nothing. Or they may have their hands tied as well, if she can get a medical professional to sign off on him being stable. As of right now, he's transferring to a day program that allows him to sleep at home at night, but that only happened after Bio Mom was informed that her first choice of an afternoons-only day program (so he could jump back into school immediately) was medically unacceptable. The all-day-program may keep him for up to several months, but by August he'll definitely be in full-time school again if she has her way--or, possibly he'll have snapped again and be back in a facility, or jail, or dead. The best I can realistically foresee happening is he attacks someone non-lethally before his 18th birthday, so he's tried as a minor and spends the rest of his life in a mental hospital. All other scenarios have worse outcomes for both him and everyone else. I'd love to be an optimist and say he keeps this thing under control and lives a productive life, but I've talked to him for too many hours about this stuff and I don't believe it's possible.

02-09-2019, 10:30 PM	#9
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	From what you've written, it seems unlikely he'll attack just someone as he seems interested in numbers. He also seems interested in the killing more so than doing it by shooting. Restricted access to firearms and explosive materials may delay acting out; but, maintain awareness of alternate methods based upon availability and simplicity - like a chemical attack! Nothing fancy, just old fashioned mass poisoning via contaminated foods or beverages at a gathering. There are plenty of products in the home and on store shelves that can be lethal if ingested. Let others be your taste testers when he's around and keep the poison control center number handy. Don't become collateral damage.

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