I am glad to see I am not the only one boiling over this.
And they will focus on blaming the F****** gun, not why the kid shot himself.
Another covid death.
The question I have is how did this young kid get his hands on a loaded gun? Where were his parents?
The Second Amendment is our right but with that right, we have responsibility. We are responsible for the safety and security of our children and these parents failed their son.
Quarantines are for sick/vulnerable people.
Quarantining people who are not sick/vulnerable is a crime against humanity and the perpetrators should be disposed of with extreme prejudice.
“The pre-teen was attending the virtual class with his microphone and camera turned off”
had been attending?
NY post is getting worse than GP with click-bait!
We know a fourteen year old girl that died to kill herself with pills about a month ago. She said that she liked the cyber school, though. The two kids live with the paternal grandmother. The parents were druggies and the dad walked in front of truck, when he was too high to know what he was doing and the mother dropped the kids off at the grandmother’s took off.
The grandfather was much older, a WWII veteran and former POW. He died about seven or eight years ago. The town named a street after the grandfather.
How horrible. Just imagine being another student on that Zoom class or his sister.
Sorry for the boy, he’s very young, it’s tragic. But maybe he would have been a school shooter. Certainly wanted to traumatize as many children as he could.
I may sound heartless, but I feel bad for the other children.
At least the criminals have lived long enough to have developed coping mechanisms, and the ability to understand why they are isolated.
A young child? Not so much. They sit alone wondering why they are being punished by the whole world. The internalized sense of free floating guilt (for nothing!) and diminished sense of self-worth will haunt many for the rest of their lives.
We flattened the curve, but the left wasn't satisfied.
We've flattened our children, and they still aren't satisfied.
Or as Livius adds:
But all the “public service” ad pitches for masks, isolation, etc. are that if somebody else gets “the virus,” it’s your fault. Children particularly are made to feel like radioactive waste, and to regard everybody else - especially all other children - as equal threats. They will indeed have a sense of diminished self-worth all of their lives. Especially for breaking out and doing normal kid things like laughing, jumping around - in other words, innocent fun and human expression. That won’t permitted in our future Marxist paradise.
That can't be good...
We do not know from the Post article or the Sacramento Bee article it links the degree to which the lockdowns contributed to the boy’s suicide.
But I will bet you a million bucks that if it turns out the boy was fine this time last year and someone, his sister perhaps, can attest to what conversations he had with her about how the lockdowns were affecting him, no one will ever hear about it.
God, please have mercy.
zoom in, zone out, zero score
Timothy Leary updated
I have seen and heard what I guess I’d call a dimming in many people in my circle of acquaintances. I notice a sort of hopelessness among them with social activities gone. I am an introvert, so I have had no issues, but I know there are people who need to be around other people and this is awful for them.
And these are adults. I can’t imagine kids and teenagers dealing with this upheaval. When I was that age the smallest thing was a major crisis.
It’s not just book edumacation kids are losing out on via remote learning. It’s many, many coping skills, derived from countless interactions with others, random people, friends, non-friends. Including having to put up with various forms of adversity, large and small.
This is what you get when you sentence the whole population of HEALTHY people to prison for no crime.
Many of them cannot cope and have no method to escape other than death.
I predicted this very thing the FIRST day they announced the shutdown. Also domestic violence is soaring and will not be known how high till many months AFTER the shutdown, as the government has now sentenced them to prison with their abuser with no escape.
The Freeper Karens should be ashamed of themselves but, like Democrats, they won’t be or admit this shutdown and masks was a colosal mistake from DAY ONE!
“They would rather virtue signal and fell good about themselves instead of seeing how this destroying kids and people.”
I can vouch for that. Infuriating is an understatement.
It is the ultimate in selfishness and arrogance I think.
And evil.
Want to save this country?
We need to start curb stomping the Krazy Kommie Karens
They are destroying this country, almost as bad as the news media (they need a curb stomping as well)
Big government run amuck, terrible suffering from senseless edicts, election fraud being overlooked, sheeple doing nothing and our representatives are awol.
RIP to this young boy....and, prayers for his family.