Nothing funny or sarcastic about that.
Ask any teacher.
Ask any parent.
It was a dumb thing to say, but are you honestly saying you want the guy jailed for saying it???
I’m a parent. I wouldn’t want my son making the comment, but I can see it wasn’t serious. You left out that he said “and eat their still beating hearts” and had lol and jk next to it. I would have read it as an attempt at a sarcastic joke. People will use absurdity in the extreme to make a point. The eating their still beating hearts would have been my first clue of what he was doing. The lol and jk would have been my second.
From the article:
Mr Carter said: ‘Someone had said something to the effect of “Oh you’re insane, you’re crazy, you’re messed up in the head,” to which he replied “Oh yeah, I’m real messed up in the head, I’m going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts.’
He added that his son had made it clear that the comment was made in jest.
Certainly should have been investigated. No question there.
However, once determined that the kid is a no threat, just a flaming imbecile, that should have ended it.
How about a speedy trial? Locked up since February?
Call me paranoid, but I see one side aspect of this event as the ongoing effort to intimidate everyone (not on the left) into silence. IOW, we can lock up an idiot teen indefinitely without trial, think about what we can do to political dissidents that we really dislike.
It starts when you’re always afraid, step out of line, the men come and take you away. Poor dumb Neil Young, had no clue he was talking about his socialist idols. Still doesn’t.
What is best in life? To crush your enemies — See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. LOL