But it sounds as if he turned the camera and microphone off when he shot himself.
I can’t help but wonder how the press would scramble to avoid covering this at all if he had made some sort of speech to the class and did it on camera.
Sooner or later one of these kids is going to do just that.
As it is, the fact that this boy killed himself and this had to be announced to his classmates raises the risk of one of them attempting suicide, as suicides sometimes appear in clusters in peer groups.
And the school counselors will have to deliver baseless platitudes about how life is going to get better. And the kids will think them spineless idiots because the kids know better that it isn’t going to get better. And the Karens who are their mothers will go on being Karens. And the dads married to these Karens will go on being wusses instead of telling their Karen wives to stick it and taking their kids with them to a lockdown protest so that the kids can see that there are still some good people left in this world.
"...sooner or later one of these kids is going to do just that..."