Georgia school shooter Colt Gray received
AR-15 for mass shooting as Christmas present
from father
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Stephen M. Lepore
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/5/2024 7:57:31 PM
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.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
blappy 9/5/2024 8:06:21 PM (No. 1791014)
Father will be civilly sued into nonexistence. Hopefully jail time.
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Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/5/2024 8:13:40 PM (No. 1791017)
Yeah, #1, I'm afraid so, too.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/5/2024 8:14:50 PM (No. 1791019)
Yes, #2. And evil people give guns to other evil people.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jalo1951 9/5/2024 8:16:40 PM (No. 1791020)
Hence his arrest. I did not hear that it was a gift during the press conference. Interesting. His son had some mental health issues, he had threatened before so of course a good parent would get the kid an AR15 for a Christmas gift. You can be the best parent in the world. Do everything right and your kid can be a jerk. You could truly be in the dark about their problems. I do not think every kid who misbehaves is a sign of parental neglect. This case screams "lock them both up". We shall see. It is not the gun that is the problem. I could keep a loaded gun in every room of my house and it would not be a problem. The person holding the gun (in criminal cases) is the problem. I should be able to protect myself regardless of what some 14 year old in Georgia does.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 9/5/2024 8:17:21 PM (No. 1791021)
When exactly, was his "obsession with other school shooters" (FTA) known by Anyone? Or did they find secret handwritten notes under his pillow?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 9/5/2024 8:44:49 PM (No. 1791034)
Ladies and gentlemen, here is parenting 2024.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 9/5/2024 11:06:42 PM (No. 1791072)
Would there be as much furor if it had been a 30.06?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mifla 9/6/2024 5:04:11 AM (No. 1791104)
A case of divorced parents trying to buy their child's affection.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 9/6/2024 5:43:35 AM (No. 1791122)
#9, I searched the article and could not find any information about the parents being divorced. Where did you find that piece of information?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/6/2024 6:42:56 AM (No. 1791135)
The "obsession" information was posted on Fakebook. It was not an AR-15 but a similarly-designed rifle. The DMUK never gets things right.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
pensom2 9/6/2024 9:47:01 AM (No. 1791217)
#9, #10, the article doesn't mention that the parents were divorced or separated. The fact that the 14-year-old's mother was not charged along with the father implies that the parents may have been divorced or that the mother disagreed with giving the kid an assault-style rifle for Christmas after being warned that, in his online searches, he may have been obsessing over school shootings.
I'm not surprised that the father was charged with murder; prosecutors often over-charge defendants in their indictments or post-arrest charging documents; this assists them later when negotiating plea deals in which the charges are bargained down to a more realistic crime, like negligent homicide. Much will depend on facts not yet fully ascertained.
I agree with those who blame this in part on violent video games. There's also the possibility that the stupid and troubled kid may have been over-medicated on the kind of anti-depression medications that warn that the drugs may lead to suicidal thoughts in younger, teenage patients.
There are many facets of this story yet to be discovered or revealed.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jasonB 9/6/2024 10:03:37 AM (No. 1791232)
For those of you cheering this, wait until a kid drunk drives and they come after the parents.
It's called 'Letting the camels nose under the tent'.
These people play the long game. It's best that you do too.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bighambone 9/6/2024 5:56:57 PM (No. 1791461)
In the old days when young teens had access to firearms their parents were responsible and you never heard tell of school shootings. In this case at least the father knew that his 13-14 year old son was enamored with previous school shooters who murdered numbers of innocent people and had expressed many crazy comments about those criminal actors. The father apparently was present months ago with his son, when his son was interviewed by FBI agents concerning his son’s reported interest in the perpetrators of past school shootings and the past school shootings in general. Yet the father provided his mentally challenged son with a semi-automatic rifle of the same model and caliber that past school shooters favored along with live ammunition for that rifle. Note that it is illegal all over the USA for a 14 year old person to purchase a firearm and/or ammunition. By dong that the father was completely irresponsible and after his son used the firearm and ammunition to murder four people and wound many more the father clearly deserves to be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Clearly if it were not for completely irresponsible parents and violent video games, shoot shootings would not be happening.
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