Hundreds of these conversations happen every time there’s a shooting. We have an entire generation of traumatized families.
Turns out my niece goes to that high school but fortunately was on a field trip when the shooting happened.
Still undoubtedly going to create trauma.
We are insane and horrible humans.
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Gun nuts just got their talking point for the next decade
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love getting these emails
Shelby County Schools, the Calera Police Department, and the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office are jointly investigating a school shooting threat that has been circulating on social media in the Calera community along with various other communities within the Shelby County School District. This same threat is circulating in some surrounding school districts as well. While the social media post mentions details of an event that allegedly will occur on Wednesday, October 27, the exact school location is marked out and not specifically identified in the threat.
We want our parents to know that this threat is being taken seriously. The safety and security of our students and staff is a top priority, therefore extra security precautions will be in place tomorrow at all Shelby County school locations.
They sent this update later:
UPDATE: Law enforcement officials have determined that a school shooting threat that was circulating on social media in various Shelby County communities earlier today is not a credible threat to any Shelby County school. The Snapchat post originated outside of the state and variations of it have circulated across the country.
Out of an abundance of caution and to help reassure our community, we have asked for increased police presence where possible and will operate under a “Heightened Awareness” status tomorrow.
For the second time in like a week and a half we are dealing with a threat at my daughter’s middle school. I really wanted her back in real school this year but now I cannot for the life of me recall why. For all its drawbacks, and they were legion, we never had to deal with shit like this or bullies and what have you
Maybe the homeschoolers are on to something 
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The two high schools in my hometown have gotten multiple bomb threats this year and have had to shut down for the day. They don’t seem to have a good protocol for avoiding this
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A high school in my hometown also dealt with bomb threats a couple years ago. Someone would call an anonymous tip line and leave a threat and as a result the school would be closed that day. This happened more than a dozen times that school year. Eventually investigators managed to track the threats to a student. Can’t imagine what kind of toll that does to the students of the school.
I mean it’s happened enough that I don’t think anyone ever believes it’s a real threat, and they get a day off school. They’ve caught one student so far, but apparently he’s not the only one. But yea, just kind of a shitty situation all around.
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Was just coming to post this. Absolutely ghoulish shit
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+1 to the NPR NRA story. Fucking despicable.
Apparently both blokes are white, so maybe this guy will do time. Then again, it’s Texas, so maybe not.
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Saw this from rupars tweet, seems like murder. Dude loses the little push fight they were having and just turns around and shoots the guy unarmed
Woah woah woah. Was any of the little dude’s property at risk? Totally righteous kill if he thought the big dude might like dent his car or something.
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The thing is the gun causes the thing its supposed to prevent. Like if I were to describe to you a scenario where you say 'a man won’t leave someone’s property so a guy gets a gun to defend himself. The guy the fires warning shots which the other guy ignores. The other guy the charges the guy and tries to wrestle his gun away from him. The guy fends the other guy off and the shoots him.
Described like that then it sounds like a good case of self defense, but in the context of the video, the odds that any one would die in that video except for the gun being introduced is like 0%. Petty bullshit custody fist fights happen all the time all over the world.
The guy won’t get arrested and he’ll get off scott free, but that’s the situation we’ve created
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Oh yeah, 100%. People have total fantasies about what the presence of a gun actually does. Data is defenseless against narratives.
Definitely no way I would ever be picked for this jury.
“Have you seen the video?”
“Yes. Guy was straight-up murdered.”
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