Michigan School Shooting Traumatize the Students and Copycats Threats Followed
How there was a flood of threats after the Michigan school shooting.
Back in the day when I was a kid, never heard of mass shootings anywhere and for sure not at schools. The only thing I had to worry about was missing the bus to and from school and getting good grades for my father.
Over the many generations, much has changed and young kids or students have to contend with so many things that are unthinkable for such young minds to be exposed to when they have yet begun to understand the world they live in.
Every gun shooting at a school or educational institution, a mother has lost a child or a child has lost a parent or someone has lost a brother, uncle, sister, aunt, grandmother, grandfather, and cousin. Guns don’t kill people, people do and these guns are easily gotten on the legal and illegal markets. Thanks to the NRA, gun lobbyists, and advocates.
Young minds leave home to be educated and their parents’ fear they may not return home again has become to commonplace. When will the madness stop with the gun? The gun lobbyist, advocates, and the NRA have much blood on their hands with the easy access to guns due to the relaxed laws allowing many illegal guns on the market where they end up in the wrong hands.
According to the news media, the NRA promoted too the young in a commercial by showing how someone was putting a gun in a Santa’s Christmas bag. Texas along with a few other states have free to carry law in public.
If someone is walking around in the public with a gun and finds oneself in a negative situation, and/or altercation, would readily pull their gun instinctively and find death on the other side of that gun, their own or someone’s else.
Tuesday, there was another mass shooting, killing four and wounded seven others, at a Michigan school. Thereafter the shooting, there was a flood of threats at various Michigan schools.
Of course, not wanting any more casualties, an estimate of at least 60 Michigan schools were closed amid copycat threats following the Oxford High School shooting on Tuesday.
A false threat of terrorism is a felony, it’s a 20-year felony. This charge needs to be reinforced at all costs, as this behavior has become and is a menace to society in the worst way, murder.
Numerous Detroit-area school districts have canceled classes or dealt with a deluge of students seeking to leave schools amid reports of social media messages that some have interpreted as threatening similar violence.
Some of the threats have led to arrests at various Michigan schools, Southfield, Sterling Heights, and Flint. Troy school was closed due to a threat via Snapchat messages. Also, Holly Area Schools received multiple reports of a potential shooting threat on social media Other school closures included Warren Consolidated Schools, Walled Lake Consolidated School District, Rochester Community Schools, Bloomfield Hills, and Huron Valley Schools, for threats. West Bloomfield School District shut down activities and closed schools through Friday.
Other school districts chose not to close but chose to boost their security and remained open. Detroit County Day School and Berkley School District remained open.
In Southfield, a 17-year old was accused of bringing a gun to school Wednesday and in Sterling Heights, a girl was arrested after making threats against Sterling Heights Stevenson High School.
On Wednesday, Oxford High School sophomore Ethan Crumbley, 15, was arraigned on 24 counts tied to Tuesday’s school shooting and was charged as an adult with first-degree murder, terrorism, and other counts, as he is being held in Oakland County Jail without bond.
According to the news media, Ethan Crumbley’s father had purchased the gun and took him to the store with him when he purchased the gun for him as a Christmas present. The day before the shooting a teacher saw an alarming note that was in Ethan Crumbley’s possession. The note referred to blood and doom all around. She took a picture of the note and shared it with the school’s official who contacted his parents. They came in and left the school without their son. They appeared to take the situation very lightly, the mother was said to have sent her son a text message saying, “try not to get caught”, and thereafter or the next day he shot other students.
After the shooting, they were supposed to show up for an arraignment and never showed up and are not on the run. Ethan Crumbley’s parents are looking like accomplices in this shooting. They bought the gun, ignored all the signs that their son was emotionally unstable and now four students are dead and seven injured. Ethan Crumbley’s parents’ could have avoided this massacre but they did not and are seen as culpable.
Parents like the Crumbley’s should not only pay for any damages caused by the usage of their gun by their child, or a gun they bought for their child, they should be charged along with their children with first degree murder or attempted murder. Parents need to be held more accountable for their actions and their children.
In conclusion, until the NRA, gun lobbyists, and advocates wake up and put the safety of the public first and not greed, these mass shootings will continue to happen and sometimes these types of shootings can backfire on the very one’s who sees nothing wrong with illegal guns getting in the wrong hands. Politicians need to institute stricter laws and punishment as a deterrent. The public needs to demand stricter laws of all politicians, for the safety of schools and for public safety. For additional reads: