Posted on 07/15/2024 2:23:29 PM PDT by DallasBiff
The parents of Donald Trump's would-be assassin have been consoled by a neighbor, who sent a message to them through the media, saying: "It was not your fault."
Thomas Matthew Crooks killed one audience member and injured two more after he opened fire at Trump's campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. The 20-year-old was shot and killed by a Secret Service sniper shortly after firing at the former president.
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I trust his parents never saw this video. Otherwise they would have had him committed. (language)
https://x.com/smulderry1/status/1812620849796555193
There is an age old question of nature vs nurture and the shooter is a product of all sorts of darkness.
I am all for people to do soul searching, but yeah, we don’t need articles about it.
The mom is registered Dem. The father might’ve been a Republican at one point, but he’s registered Libertarian.
I also have been waiting to hear what kind of medication he was taking.
Saw a teenage photo. Looked like high school picture. It looked like he may have had a clef lip.
Good catch! That makes sense. It explains some of Crooks's features.
I’m sorry to say it because you are such a wonderful woman, but in this case I fully blame the parents and will go on to say that the insane parents helped to intentionally wind up the kid and set the demon loose.
Blame hell! They’re democrats, they are probably basking in the glory.
There are two strongly passionate sides to it but I point to the Oxford, Michigan school shooter case parents:
“Apr 9, 2024 — Jennifer and James Crumbley, the first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting, were sentenced to at least 10 years in prison. AP.”
Whatcha’ doin’ today?
Nothin’
Nothing?
A little target practice.
Take a couple of power bars if you’re set on skipping breakfast. At least drink a little orange juice.
That video is apparently not the shooter but a student at ASU.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7974217/amp/Shocking-moment-ASU-student-yells-Slash-Republican-throats-Trumps-acquittal.html
I wasn’t talking about legal blame. I mean the parents would blame themselves for their child’s act.
I know you weren’t.
Mine was a new point about “blame.”
After the Oxford Shooting I think parents are on the hot seat, whether that is right or wrong.
That’s very possible.
But reports are out that Crooks went to ASU. Reports are out there that says his van has Arizona plates.
But even though some X post says that nut was Crooks doesn’t mean diddly.
Oh, dang, there was a hilarious cartoon about that in Sergio Aragones’ (sp?) book “Mad About Mad”, but I can’t find the image online. It was in a chapter titled “Mad About Psychiatrists”.
Both parents are mental health professionals. That indicates that they probably have warped views of existence and raised their son with esoteric theories that would make producing a balanced adult unlikely.
If your parents are mental health experts then they are unlikely to ever blame themselves for anything
FAS is what my wife said when she saw the pictures of the high school Crooks. She taught LD kids for thirty five years and has rather a lot of experience with the syndrome.
I thought they were social workers? I don’t consider that, “mental health experts.”
It was ASU crap.
Daddy bought the gun 11 years ago.
The “kid” was in college.
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