There are legitimately stupid kids out there. (Re: school shootings)

As long as news outlets continue to give this the amount of attention it gets, idiots will try to 1-up each other with stupidity.

Happening in Louisiana too. Look a couple threads down.

When I was about 10, I lived in Germany. Back in those days, sky jackings were still a thing.

I remember seeing about 20 German police officers and 4 or 5 police dogs take out some dumb American teenager who joked about about having a bomb in his bag at the Frankfort airport.

They took him down with a lot of enthusiasm.

Kids making threats need to have a SWAT team swarm their parents house with tear gas, flash grenades, and anything else they have. If they make an example out of the first few, it will stop.

24 hour unchecked sensationalized media combined with the first generation to be raised on unlimited social media is going to yield some fascinatingly terrifying results. This is the first one.

we need to make it illegal for the news to report these crimes for more than a day, and super illegal to name the shooter

that will help

The Contagion Effect

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These events don’t occur in a vacuum. While the “contagion” effect is well-documented in the case of suicides, it’s been studied less in the context of mass shootings. But as shootings become an ever more commonplace occurrence, more of us are wondering about the possibility of a ripple effect.

We’re starting to better understand the epidemiology behind this tragic trend. While the research is limited, a recent Arizona State University study found strong evidence that school shootings and other acts of mass violence are contagious.

The researchers did a statistical analysis of 176 mass shooting events in the U.S. from 2006 to 2011 and 220 school shootings between 1997 and 2013. They discovered that mass shootings were significantly more likely to occur if another shooting that received national media coverage took place in the previous 13 days — a finding that suggests that mass shootings tend to cluster together in a similar manner to suicides. This was “apparently due to the [media] coverage planting the seeds of ideation in at-risk individuals to commit similar acts,” the study said.

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Stupid way to get out of school. Reminds me of when kids used to call in “bomb threats” in the 80’s.

We somehow got tagged in one that was actually directed at a Miss. school. We are in south La. Still had several police on campus and had school, message on the school board website saying everything was fine.

Leaving school and Channel 4 news was in front of the school shooting a segment on it. Right there is the reason it will keep happening. Stop reporting kids doing dumb shite and giving them the attention they are craving.

Looks like the 2 kids arrested in Tangipahoa Parish for sending out threats are being charged with "terrorizing". WAFB

One threat was deemed "credible" and the other seems to be just passing along a threat from someone else out-of-state.

Any LA lawyers know what the penalty for terrorizing is?