The Associated Press: Days after posting mugshot of a boy accused of school threat, sheriff puts video of 2 teens online

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Fed up with school shooting threats in his community, Chitwood pledged to publicly identify students accused of making such threats.

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Because these 11 year olds are clearly the problem...

Well, duh?

What else could be the problem? The fact that school shootings must be taken seriously because it's a real possibility that an 11 year old kid could access a gun?

Ofc not. The only way to stop a bad 11 yo with a gun is with good armed 11 yo.

We need to start giving kids shooting classes, they need to be ready in case a classmate decides to bring their gun to kill other kids.

They used to actually have shooting class in high school. My dad went to it when he was a kid.

Probably don’t want to be teaching the kids how to shoot properly though. That could lead to even worse outcomes in today’s social environment.

I see the gun lobby has gotten to you too. Why is no one talking about teaching these kids how to make IEDs in case of school shootings?

[...] amid the ongoing national debate over what it would take to stem the gun violence plaguing the nation.

Good on news outlets not posting the perps. Gotta wonder if this is legal (mugshot and posting perpwalk)as they are minors.

I would be furious it was my kid.

If my kid was threatening to shoot up a school I'd be furious at them, too.

Here's what happened at my daughter's school last week:

  • Child 1 made a sarcastic remark to child 2, suggesting that child 3 might bring a gun to school the next day.
  • Child 4 overheard the remark and reported it.
  • Police showed up, in full force, at child 3's home. Child 3 had made no such threat, did not own a gun, and had no idea what was going on.
  • The district assured everyone that there was no credible threat.
  • Social media blew up with distraught parents wanting to know why the school hadn't been immediately shut down and everyone notified, kids arrested, etc.

If police made the identities of any of these children public knowledge, their parents would be rightfully pissed off and well within their rights to sue for damages, because I assure you that those kids and their parents would be made social pariahs and would probably have to leave the district, even though the only thing that happened was someone made a very ill-advised joke that someone else overheard and took seriously.

And if my kid was accused of threatening to shoot up a school and this was normal...

They aren't kidding about a wave of threats from kids. 5 or 6 in my town, both high schools and middle schools. Friends are reporting it in their towns too.

I'm guessing some sort of stupid TikTok challenge.

This sheriff is not helping.

Springfield copycats I bet.

Maybe. But here, there were a bunch of them in a very short time span and kids on social media were the culprits in all of them. That screams something along the lines of a TikTok challenge to me.

I could see children deciding that this is how they get gun control laws.

If this was a recent wave, I bet it was just the end of the summer and some kids just desperately not wanting to go back to school for whatever reasons

Since the school year started a few weeks ago in Volusia County, Chitwood said, his office has reported more than 280 school threats compared to 352 in all of last year.

“Something has to be done,” Chitwood said. “Where are the parents?”

Working to support the kids you want to force them to have.