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Home-Schooled Student’s Plot To Kill 1 Foiled
Hey, everybody, we have our own school shooting story right over here! A home-schooled kid in the suburbs was arrested for planning a “Columbine-type” attack on a school. Since he’s home-schooled, he apparently was going to shoot up his own house. Oh! Here we go. He was going to storm Plymouth Whitemarsh High School in his attempt to be a bigger idiot than the Columbine kids.
How would he carry that all into the school? I guess it’s not really all that much, but it seems like this kid would get weighed down. Unless he’s that creepy kid bodybuilder, he can’t be that strong. ‘Columbine-type’ threat thwarted at Plymouth Whitemarsh High [Inquirer] |
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Did they find any photos of Alycia Lane in a bikini? Will they be released?
i go to plymouth whitemarsh and this kid use to go to the middle school and everyone would make fun of him. Since he had problems he got home schooled and i guess his nager built up and he wanted to hurt the kids that hurt him.
I also go to plymouth whitemarsh. This kid was trying to recruit people to help him, He didn’t intend to carry this massive amount of weapons by himself. Thats how he was found out - he told the wrong person who turned him in. This isn’t something to be joking about either. Had he not been turned in, you could be reporting about deaths at my school later on in the year instead.
Hmmm, a bullied kid wants revenge…Wow, how surprising is that? Is our society so lazy and/or ignorant enough to be surprised that a bullied kid wants revenge? If the bullies would deal with their own insecurities rather than picking/bullying other kids to feel better, we wouldn’t be reading these types of news stories. An “anonymous” is right, this isn’t a joking matter. Bullying and teasing is where it starts.
I got bullied and teased and it never occurred to me to go murder a bunch of people at my school. It’s much more complicated an issue than that.
Okay, wow your story is completely not true honestly where do you get this stuff. I was a close and personal friend of this kid and you dont know how badly he was picked on. And its even harder for me because i was one of the last people to talk to him before he got arrested last night.
How much picking and teasing are a few human lives worth?
“how much picking and teasing are a few human lives worth”
i would say at least 100….
its too bad this kid didnt get his revenge…it would have been great…the only good bully is a very dead bully…
You shouldn’t make fun of him for being abused. I can relate, I’m abused by Matt O’Donnell every day.
100 teasings and pickings? That doesn’t make much sense.
Something I’ve noticed in all of the accounts: The press keeps talking about a “9mm assault rifle”. That’s why gun people get so p!$$ed at the media. There is no such thing. Journalists, in general, are deliberately and intentionally illiterate about firearms. Of course, in this case, it looks like they may have been quoting a Philly cop. That’s not surprising, as a lot of Philadelphia police appear to be ignorant about guns, as well.
To the anonymous poster of 5:17pm, if it’s more complicated, then please elaborate. Otherwise, it may not occur to you to murder, or want to murder others in your school. But I’ve worked with a lot of kids who were bullied and teased and it resulted in deep depression and anguish which, for some, turned to murderous rage. That’s where I’m coming from. Most kids don’t make plans to murder, but a lot think about it. They think about murder or suicide.
This isn’t a new problem, just a new twist on it. When I was in school, we didn’t have the internet to give us access to how to make grenades/bombs, or 24 hour coverage of school shootings to give us ideas. One kid I knew committed suicide, the rest developed drug problems.
Yes anonymous gun expert, the exact make and model of firearm the kid had in his room is what really matters in this story. Please, yes the media’s generally ignorant of firearms, but c’mon to a lot of lay people a weapon capable of holding a large supply of ammunition, and possibly capable of firing at a high rate is the point. It may not satisfy those of you who wanted to cross reference the report with your G.I. Joe file cards, but for the purposes of this _developing_ story, an initial report like that wouldn’t infuriate a normal person.
What is infuriating is this blog posts overall belittling tone to thing. Now the ‘arsenal’ the kid had actually matches the amount of stuff a lot of mass murderers have carried before going off to slaughter. So while maybe the poster is some sort of weakling due to genetic defect or couch potato-ness, the ability of one person to afflict a lot of damage in a school or other public place isn’t really a laughing matter.
I’m also troubled by PW’s taking all this at press release value. What we have is a kid warning police about another, troubled kid, who had an “arsenal.” No journalist has apparently reviewed any evidence or has spoken to any witnesses on a substantial level. It certainly sounds like the kid was troubled, and both troubled and untroubled adolescents, particularly boys, are known to make violent boasts. However, the proportion of actual acts of mass violence to violent boasts is very weak. As the facts stand without police and school district massaging, we have a troubled kid story, that probably shouldn’t have been a story (yes, I agree intervention was likely needed in this case, the question is whether criminal intervention was needed is something PW and no one else is thinking). However, what PW is participating in is just perpetuating the “terror of the adolescent” mythology that’s been a staple of softball journalism since Columbine. I would have assumed a so called “alternative press” outlet would have been smarter in its coverage, instead of this textual bullying of the kid. I mean, c’mon even Philebrity treated this with better tone.
There may not be a gun termed ‘9mm semiauto rifle’ but there are guns that are rifles that take 9mm bullets AND are semi auto.
Not sure where the information is coming from, but you could google it and see.
Plus this kid also had .22s, handguns and rifles.
Not quite sure what those parents were thinking…. Oh that is right they weren’t.
Doesn’t it seem that every time there is a school violence incident once of these sub-stories pops up? People have school violence on the brain, and lo-and-behold someone gets turned in to narrowly avoid another disaster.
I’m not saying this kid wasn’t fucked up or that he shouldn’t have been turned in - he is and he should have. But why does it so often take a successful act of violence to expose those that are quietly brewing around us?
I think it’s a shame that although there were no actual acts of violence committed - this child will be forever remembered as the kid who almost recreated Columbine in his town. His future is pretty well ruined. Think he was bullied and teased before? Just wait till he gets out of juvie or jail or wherever they decide to send the poor kid. He’ll spend the rest of his life being remembered for some stupid crap that he did as a CHILD.
I agree that intervention was needed - but all of this media attention and hoopla was NOT needed and just serves to exacerbate the situation.
I don’t see how it benefits anyone to have this obviously disturbed CHILD and his family picked apart by the entire country.
Like I said - if he wasn’t feeling ostracized and isolated before this - he certainly will now.
If mommy was buying the arsenal, and surely she was since 14-year-olds rarely have an independent source of money, then I’d like to hear a little more rage against how easy it is for idiots to buy guns. And give them to little kids.
Holly said “I’d like to hear a little more rage against how easy it is for idiots to buy guns. And give them to little kids.”
The problem isn’t the guns. Most 16 year olds have cars that could be a more deadly weapon than a gun given a crowd situation. A gun is no more deadly than many things. Did you know in England they banned guns then a few years later they were trying to ban baseball bats because gangs were beating people to death with bats. There is also an attempt to ban all kitchen knives with longer than a 6 inch blade in the United States.
Bombs can be made out of simple cleaning supplies found in most every home and are much more deadly than a gun.
Banning bullying would have much more of an impact than banning guns.
It’s more complicated because these kids weren’t taught that it’s totally unacceptable to take another person’s life. No matter how depressed I got as a teenager, I would’ve taken my own life before I took somebody else’s. I just didn’t consider that an option.