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.
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Stay out of it, Limeys!
Absolutely. Colin obviously dropped a few balls. Buying an AR-15 for a 14 year old who has been talking about shooting up a school is probably not a great idea. "Hey Bobby, if you'll just stop playing with matches in your closet for a month, I'll buy you a flamethrower!
Of course, I grew up with a dad. A dad who had guns, taught me to respect them and use them safely. I had my own at a young age. When my Grandson turned 2, I bought him a Henry rifle. He will get it when my son in law decides he is ready. I can't wait. But if there are any signals that he isn't ready, I will. When he's 14, I expect his firearms will live in dad's gun safe.
According to the aunt, the kid had been “begging for help with his mental health” but was not given it — if true, that should have clued Dad in. We’ll have to wait for more facts, but given how much trauma the kid had been through with meth fiend Mom, his “obsession” with certain school shooters, etc., the kid was not okay.
The most important thing is Dad had promised cops to keep firearms securely away from the kid.
He’ll shoot several people’s eyes out with that.
Black Bart doesn’t stand a chance.
Nope. Not while you have an open border and 20 million flood in, you send drag queens to schools, you chop off little boy’s penises, you flood America with 145 billion Oxycontin pills, BLM and Anitfa terror runs unchecked, schools teach communism as the way, people in Government openly speak of whites in pre-genocidal terms, the last two elections were rife with fraud, we teeter on the brink of economic collapse, WWIII or Civil War is not completely unthinkable, The FBI knelt before revolutionary socialist BLM and deified Floyd George...
I think I’ll make sure my kiddos learn, and are equipped.
Ralphie you’ll shoot your eye out
I think it's pretty safe at this point to say his threat was credible. Of course, hindsight is always 20/20. It was serious enough for a visit from the FBI, and that should have been a red flag for dad. But these days, parents seem to defend their kids behavior no matter what.
“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?”
Great, you want the FBI to raise your kids? How about parents do their job.
More like shoot your head off.
It's his son. How could he not?
There is a difference between a gun and a car, but if your child (or whoever)used the gift in the. Commission of a crime, you will be sued for damages even if you avoid criminal charges. No, not a lawyer but I know this from a legal case in which I was involved. The giver avoided a lawsuit by filing a disclaimer with the DMV.
>>>>But these days, parents seem to defend their kids behavior no matter what.<<<<
I would have been in heap, big trouble if law enforcement paid a visit to my parents to discuss my actions.
But I grew up in the days of Leave It To Beaver, Hopalong Cassidy and Sky King.
The days when people appreciated the difference between right and wrong and knew what shame means.
the father said he had a gun safe
why wasnt the ar15 in the safe?
Young man had problems. Intervention necessary.Follow up.and follow through.
Troubled child should not have access to guns.
Parent should not enable child.
End of story.Hopefully.
Too late now.
Not the fault of inanimate object(gun).
I think having the FBI showing up at your door months ahead of the purchase asking questions about yoor son might be an indication.
My dad was a Korean war vet. A medic. He taught me the 10 commandments, how to treat a woman and how to handle a firearm. He gave me a .22 rifle and two boxes of ammo when I was 8. His firearm rules were:
Always treat it like is loaded.
Never point it at anything unless you intend to kill it.
If you kill it, you are responsible.
I taught my kids the same lessons and they took them to heart.
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