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Originally posted by woogleuk
Originally posted by lnfideI
Sorry to be honest here but.
Your whole story seems sketchy and poorly planned out before you started typing.
Which part seems sketchy, sounded perfectly plausible to me (and obviously others who have participated in the discussion)
It is my opinion your just a drama queen, who has made up some cock a mamy story about some fictitious kid planning a school shooting.
That may be your opinion, but given the seriousness of the issue is it necessary to throw insults about?
You have no credibility in my eyes, do you know why? Here let me tell you why.
You have a kid getting threatened with death, you have some other kid planning a shooting at school, and what do you do?
YOU COME HERE FOR ADVICE.
YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT TO DO FOR THE FOLLOWING DAY?
In a real situation like that, thinking ATS first would not happen. Fantasy island, that is where your story has come from.
ATS is a source for good advice sometimes, there is people here from all walks of life. Not everybody in this world has someone they can turn to in real life for the type of advice you can receive here, and given the amount of threads on shootings and gun control, there is obviously a lot of educated people here on the subject.
Please log off the internet for a few months, I think you may have taken all this to seriously.
Just saying.
Please log off the internet for a few months, or at least until you learn some civility.
To the OP, I don't have much to add that others haven't already said, so I will just agree with other posters that the authorities should be informed just in case there is any truth behind the young boys claims....it may save lives.
I hope your child and the other children at the school stay safe.
Originally posted by woogleuk
reply to post by lnfideI
If it was a 16-17+ year old....perhaps, but a 13 year old threatening to shoot people might seem a bit strange to some people, and they would probably seek other opinion on the subject before making any rash decisions.
Sometimes kids say things which if said by an adult would be interpreted as suspicious, but as a child may be nothing more than fantasy
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by lnfideI
Well, I'm happy you're so knowledgeable about the personal lives, habits and thought processes of other people. You say you've been around but your account info says otherwise for this site, this community and this situation.
. . .
The difference between what you did here and that? You've pretty viciously attacked a member I've never seen be anything but kind and decent to other people. I don't know what the gun control thread you speak of is about. No idea..and I really could care less. I wouldn't have several of the RL friends I do if I judged their their political opinions before I considered them friends.
I guess I just don't go tearing into people like a hungry man to a big steak ....with nothing to gain by it. Nothing to show and sure nothing to 'show off to anyone else in doing. This is just outright hateful and ugly....and you've totally lost all respect I had for you. No question there, whatsoever.
With that? I'm off the thread. When this much ugly hate has been brought in? It's become toxic and this is about as NICE a thing as I can say anymore on it. That's definitely the sign I need to find other topics......but damn sure, this much needed said. ATS isn't...or wasn't anyway....a place where vicious PERSONAL attacks on other members were tolerated. Never used to be anyway....... It's a VERY bad thing to see THAT changing this way.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by lnfideI
Well, I'm happy you're so knowledgeable about the personal lives, habits and thought processes of other people. You say you've been around but your account info says otherwise for this site, this community and this situation.
Now I see people on here frequently that I don't much care for the opinion of. It's a natural thing. It's a BIG BIG site. When it's a factual issue for a topic I have factual basis and sourcing to support it? I'll jump in and say a few things on those I think are flat wrong too. Otherwise? Jumping in does nothing but add hate to a situation which likely doesn't need more of it as it is. In THIS case? It's a situation that didn't really have hate like this until your posts brought it here. I can't say it any simpler because that's the truth. A little Mogwai disgrees too.....but I respect him. He built that respect over time and by NOT tearing into people with no basis or logic to support it. Each on a case by case.
The difference between what you did here and that? You've pretty viciously attacked a member I've never seen be anything but kind and decent to other people. I don't know what the gun control thread you speak of is about. No idea..and I really could care less. I wouldn't have several of the RL friends I do if I judged their their political opinions before I considered them friends.
I guess I just don't go tearing into people like a hungry man to a big steak ....with nothing to gain by it. Nothing to show and sure nothing to 'show off to anyone else in doing. This is just outright hateful and ugly....and you've totally lost all respect I had for you. No question there, whatsoever.
With that? I'm off the thread. When this much ugly hate has been brought in? It's become toxic and this is about as NICE a thing as I can say anymore on it. That's definitely the sign I need to find other topics......but damn sure, this much needed said. ATS isn't...or wasn't anyway....a place where vicious PERSONAL attacks on other members were tolerated. Never used to be anyway....... It's a VERY bad thing to see THAT changing this way.
Originally posted by TKDRL
reply to post by facelift
Well, maybe I am a bleeding heart, although many that have called me a rightwing nutjob would disagree.......
All I am saying is maybe to try the parent route, before ruining a kid's future for running their mouth. I would be screwed as a kid, if I were in school nowadays. I said plenty I didn't even understand, let alone mean when I was a kid. I had a "hit list", people that picked on me for not being as rich as they were.