[jdm]

"The younger Hinrichs built a bomb out of match heads in an empty tube at age 13 or 14, his father said."

The father is admitting his son was building bombs at the young age of 13 or 14 -- why didn't the father step in and do something about it WAY back then (circa 1997)?

[null and void]

Good question. At least I had the sense to avoid telling my parents!

[Palladin]

This father is clueless. You have a severely depressed son who can't form relationships and has been fooling around with bombs since he was thirteen...and what do you do with him? Sned him a thoudand miles away to a large campus full of unsuspecting people!

Unbelievable how totally airheaded some parents can be.

[El Gato]

The father is admitting his son was building bombs at the young age of 13 or 14 -- why didn't the father step in and do something about it WAY back then (circa 1997)?

Because there's nothing all that weird about a kid that age that like to make things go boom. If that were a sign of mental illness, they'd have carted many FReepers off to the booby hatch long ago. Including this old cat. :)

[justshutupandtakeit]

That is something many boys do. My brothers and I did that sort of thing around that age. Made gun powder and stuff.

[weegee]

Didn't the Columbine killers' parents make some of these same discoveries and permit them?