I have to ask this question about the Michigan shooter.

[Grasswire2]

And I apologize, but I can't get the notion out of my mind.

Is it possible that this disturbed kid saw all the accolades and perks that Rittenhouse has recently enjoyed for his killing of two people and wanted the same treatment for himself?

Didn't we anticipate that the Rittenhouse grooming by MAGA might bring about more such executions?

It was permission.

[BlackSkimmer]

1. I don't think it's that far out to wonder about that.

Reading all this info about his parents shows he was certainly in that type environment.

[Ocelot II]

2. Since school shootings have been happening for some thirty years already, probably not.

[ck4829]

3. You know what? Republicans believe some guy named Q is giving them secret information on the same

forum that mass shooters post their manifestos and where child pornographers congregate, and also that Italian satellites stole votes from Trump with a tractor beam or something.

So, I don't know what they actually believe.

My verdict: It's possible.

[wildheart]

4. that doesn't seem comparable

this kid just went shooting at innocent people who were not threatening him. Rittenhouse, was cleared of wrongdoing because the evidence showed that they were threatening him.
But who knows what was going through the mind of the school shooter.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. They are saying he was bullied /nt

[wildheart]

12. That may well be

But were the people he shot hitting him and threatening his life? Likely not.

[hamsterjill]

17. I have a hard time with this.

I don't like to give excuses for people who kill innocent children. If he was being bullied, that's terrible. But it is not a defense for what he did, and I don't like the way the general discussion (not you but society in general) is taking whereby there are some "excuses" made for someone committing a despicable act.

I think we as a society need to be concerned about this and not get it started where school shootings are concerned. He's a murderer. Basically whatever happened before that is null and void after what he did.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Sort of a copycat crime, by proximity in time

It's a possibly contributory factor, but how would it be measured? Leave it to the forensic psychologists to opine.

[sop]

6. There are reports some students knew of the shooting beforehand and stayed home to avoid it.

(ABC News) "After the attack, authorities learned of social media posts about threats of a shooting at the roughly 1,700-student school...A concerned parent, Robin Redding, said her son, 12th-grader Treshan Bryant, stayed home Tuesday after hearing threats of a possible shooting. 'This couldn’t be just random,' she said. Bryant said he had heard vague threats 'for a long time now' about plans for a shooting."

Apparently, this kid has been going off the rails for some time. His media postings should reveal his motives.

[leftieNanner]

13. The school had meetings with him and his parents

On the day before and the day of the shootings.

Behavior problems, apparently.

And the Dad bought him a semi-automatic hand gun.

[wildheart]

16. The dad bought the gun for the kid to use?

so he is complicit.

[leftieNanner]

18. Don't know that explicitly

But the Dad bought the gun last Friday and the kid posted photos and videos of himself online showing off "his" new gun.

I guess that is to be determined by the prosecutors.

[wildheart]

21. Ugh

noway does a parent not know that their child is unstable. To bring a gun into that is not good, but yeah, we will find out more as more facts come out.

[Progressive Jones]

23. Some parents can be just as unstable as their larvae. nt

[wildheart]

14. I saw something like that

where the rumors were flying among students, and the parents were sent an email assuring them that the rumors were unfounded, and they had sufficient security.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. He'll learn real quickly that school shootings are open and closed cases.

He just forfeited his freedom.

[Demsrule86]

9. No, this is a school shooting...completely different.

[Sympthsical]

10. The warning bells were clanging long before the Rittenhouse verdict

The more info that comes out, the more it seems a lot of people at least had an suspicion this was coming.

[LuvLoogie]

11. I think his Dad bought him his very own gun.

When was the meeting with his parents called?

The meeting, about Ethan's concerning behavior, occurred on the morning of the shooting, which was the afternoon of Tuesday, November 30th.

The gun was purchased on the previous Friday, on November 26th.

When was the call made to schedule the meeting?

[brooklynite]

15. There is absolutely no basis for this assertion.

First, it assumes a a belief that, if caught, he'd be exonerated.

Seond, what's the explanation of all the mass shootings BEFORE the Rittenhouse verdict.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. I think that's a big reach and unlikely.

[ripcord]

20. I don't care about his reasons

Hero worship or being bullied neither is a reason to shoot anyone, I'm happy he is being charged as an adult because he committed an adult crime.

[Mr.Bill]

22. Remotely possible,

but entirely different circumstances. When there is a protest in a permit-less open carry state and half the people show up with AR-15s and a dozen or so shootings occur, that's when we can look at the Rittenhouse verdict as the cause. And I fear it will happen.