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Nevilledog

(51,029 posts)
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 01:49 PM Sep 2021

Two Florida teens accused of planning a Columbine-style school shooting



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@LuluLemew
9/9/21 Lehigh Acres, Florida
Harns Marsh *Middle* School

Two boys, ages 13 & 14, have been charged with conspiracy to commit a mass shooting

Sn investigation determined the boys were studying Columbine

Two Florida teens accused of planning a Columbine-style school shooting
The two boys were charged with conspiracy to commit a mass shooting at a middle school in Lehigh Acres, about 15 miles east of Fort Myers, authorities said.
news.yahoo.com
6:45 AM · Sep 10, 2021


https://news.yahoo.com/two-florida-teens-accused-planning-120600677.html

Two teenagers were arrested Thursday after authorities said they plotted to commit a mass shooting at a Florida middle school.

The 13- and 14-year-old boys were charged with conspiracy to commit a mass shooting after a student told a teacher that one of them had a gun in his backpack Wednesday at Harns Marsh Middle School in Lehigh Acres, about 15 miles east of Fort Myers, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said during a press conference.

"This could have been the next Parkland massacre, but we stopped them in the planning stages," Marceno said, referring to the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead.

Marceno continued: "We were one second away from a Columbine here. I’m certain that my team of dedicated deputies and detectives acted promptly, investigated thoroughly and prevented a very violent and dangerous act from being carried out.”

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Two Florida teens accused of planning a Columbine-style school shooting (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2021 OP
well done ZonkerHarris Sep 2021 #1
As Republicans whine about school mask mandates. johnp3907 Sep 2021 #2
Hmmm...perhaps they'll reform their Backseat Driver Sep 2021 #3
What the fuck is this shit right here. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2021 #5
Here's hoping those kids get the help they clearly need. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2021 #4
But, guns! No harm, no fowl, right? marble falls Sep 2021 #6
But no masks malaise Sep 2021 #7
You just have to know: the right wing is going down in flames. marble falls Sep 2021 #8
We have a national mental health crisis to add to the others. KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2021 #9

Backseat Driver

(4,381 posts)
3. Hmmm...perhaps they'll reform their
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 02:15 PM
Sep 2021

brain cells in ju-ve with the tender compassionate care of parental government - think they'll be grateful for their housing, utilities, food, educational opportunities, health services, physical and mental, accommodations to whatever religion they should learn to follow, the low-wage slave labor jobs awaiting them as adults except if they'll have ideas about how to make the greedy rich, richer beneath the table of their oh-so-virtuous lives. HAH!

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,488 posts)
9. We have a national mental health crisis to add to the others.
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 06:38 PM
Sep 2021

Climate change, COVID, proliferation of guns, R-W brainwashing, overall healthcare and mental health (did I miss one?).

Mental health might well be the worst of our elephants in our rooms, in the long run. Without healthy states of mind, we can't effectively address all the other crises.


KY..... .........

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