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Pressure parents to stop buying guns for their Sons and Daughters.
Daily Mail ^ | September 5, 2024 | Stephen Lepore

Posted on 09/05/2024 6:48:27 PM PDT by Racketeer

Colt Gray was given the gun he used to shoot dead four people at his Georgia high school as a Christmas present from his father months after they were questioned by the FBI over alleged threats.

The 14-year-old was arrested on Wednesday at Apalachee High School in Winder, minutes after authorities say he opened fire on students and teachers.

Law enforcement sources told CNN Thursday that the teenage shooter received the gun for the holidays this past December.

His father Colin Gray has told authorities that he bought the gun for the boy himself as a Christmas gift. Colin Gray has yet to make any public comment on the shooting.

This was just months after the teenager and his father were interviewed by local law enforcement in connection with online threats about carrying out a school shooting made on the gaming social-media platform Discord, according to investigators.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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The father buys his son an AR-15. How is it the father's fault? Of course the father has been arrested and I see it as just another way to keep guns out of the hands of another generation.

Will cars be next? If not, why?

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/09/05/father-of-georgia-shooting-suspect-arrested-charged-with-involuntary-manslaughter-2nd-degree-murder/

1 posted on 09/05/2024 6:48:27 PM PDT by Racketeer
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If there's booze in the house then the parents are on the hook?? What about pain killers,....other meds.....

Very dangerous precedent.

2 posted on 09/05/2024 6:49:28 PM PDT by ealgeone
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How bout pressure parents to parent.

How bout that, Daily UK?

RLTW


3 posted on 09/05/2024 6:49:52 PM PDT by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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“His father Colin Gray has told authorities that he bought the gun for the boy himself as a Christmas gift....just months after the teenager and his father were interviewed by local law enforcement in connection with online threats about carrying out a school shooting”

Colin needs an experienced criminal defense attorney.


4 posted on 09/05/2024 6:54:40 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Why didn’t she do it three and a half years ago?”)
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To: military cop

How bout pressure parents to parent.

Nailed it


5 posted on 09/05/2024 6:55:03 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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Dr. Stephen Lepore is professor of public health and founding director of the Social and Behavioral Health Interventions Laboratory. He holds degrees from the University of California-Irvine, Harvard University and Clark University. His work focuses on cancer prevention, control and survivorship, with an emphasis on developing theoretically informed social and behavioral interventions to improve the quality of life in people who have had cancer and to promote healthy lifestyle choices and behaviors that might lead to the prevention or early detection and treatment of cancer. Dr. Lepore also serves as a professor of clinical sciences at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine.

7 posted on 09/05/2024 6:56:36 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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His father Colin Gray has told authorities that he bought the gun for the boy himself as a Christmas gift... just months after the teenager and his father were interviewed by local law enforcement in connection with online threats about carrying out a school shooting.

I'd say the dad is gonna need a really good lawyer...

8 posted on 09/05/2024 6:57:30 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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I’m just a sinner repenting needing to repent more a novel idea...


9 posted on 09/05/2024 6:59:05 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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He made threats, was investigated by the FBI... Then his father bought him rifle... That doesn’t sound like the best parenting idea.


10 posted on 09/05/2024 6:59:58 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Most excellent observation.


11 posted on 09/05/2024 7:00:09 PM PDT by ealgeone
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Better to purchase good firearms for each child as a/he grows up. And make sure s/he has good safety and care instruction. And make sure the school has a good instructor for firearms safety training and shooting sports.
An armed society is a free society. And a lower- crime and more polite one, too.


12 posted on 09/05/2024 7:01:44 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Not the author.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/profile-473/stephen-lepore.html


13 posted on 09/05/2024 7:02:19 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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The original headline at source is:

“Georgia school shooter Colt Gray received AR-15 for mass shooting as Christmas present from father”

The problem in this case is that the cops had already directed dad to keep his guns locked up and away from the kid after he made online threats to shoot up schools, and Dad promised he would. Then Dad goes and buys the kid his very own gun a few months later.


14 posted on 09/05/2024 7:02:49 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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The kid had a long list of excuses about how his gaming account had been hacked, etc. There were threats to shoot up a school linked to the account, both father and son questioned by law enforcement. His father then gives him an AR15, and the kid uses the AR15 to shoot up a school. How in the world could the father have suspected the kid was unstable?


15 posted on 09/05/2024 7:03:08 PM PDT by Roadrunner383
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Sorry brits. Pound sand.


16 posted on 09/05/2024 7:03:32 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? ECheck! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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How about teaching your children the Ten Commandments?
17 posted on 09/05/2024 7:05:16 PM PDT by Fungi
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From the article: Colt Gray was given the gun he used to shoot dead four people at his Georgia high school as a Christmas present from his father months AFTER they were questioned by the FBI over alleged threats.

The operative word is “AFTER”.

I’d like to know more about the alleged threats. Were they credible?

If the answer is “yes”, the father should bear some responsibility for the actions of his minor son.


18 posted on 09/05/2024 7:06:04 PM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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Thank you for the correction. My bad.

They’re both equally ill-equipped to opine on this matter.


19 posted on 09/05/2024 7:09:00 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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How about the FIB, LE, mental health people be pressured to do their jobs and prevent stuff like this from happening in the first place?


20 posted on 09/05/2024 7:09:26 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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