Literally braver than every cop in Uvalde.
this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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Honestly, good on the relative for at least having enough interest in the child to know there was a problem before they did it.
I wonder what led the kid to try this, if there are reasons.
The standard is bad parents, hatred for society and school (honestly normal for many teens/adolescents, esp if bullied), echo chambers that reinforce the hatred (abnormal), easy access to guns (abnormal but often concurrent with bad parents and ofc the US).
This is of course an oversimplification and not every shooter has all of these but there's been more than enough occurences by this point to know what the majority "reasons" are. The two ways for society to fix this would be to make gun ownership more difficult, and to have parents positively involved with their children.
Republicans dont want to do anything to limit guns until its the "other side" that has them see the lack of anything in the multiple events since Columbine including Uvalde vs Regan as CA governor and Black Panthers having AKs. And in our stage of capitalism the companies do not care about parents spending time with their kids and the unions are weak (though theres been some recent limited improvements there).
Thanks for the explanation, I was thinking along those lines that the kid hated school and maybe he's been bullied but I didn't think about echo chambers
The boy was en route to nearby Grand Prairie Elementary School.
According to a Yahoo article the boy was a high school freshman. It would obviously be terrifying if the boy was a fifth grader or younger. Even for a freshman to be attempting a shooting with all of this gear—
...a Glock handgun, a backpack which contained multiple loaded magazines, knives, an accelerant, gloves, and other items...
—this is noteworthy. High schoolers doing a shooting have happened before, but for a freshman, I suspect there's something more behind the scene. 15 year olds can't plan out mass shootings alone. Maybe ChatGPT coerced the kid into it and helped with the planning?
I could have 100% gotten that far at 15 and the Internet wasn't even as good back then.
Stop making excuses for psychopaths.
No one is excusing anything. The shooter being a high school freshman is unusual, even in a country where school shootings are tragically normalized. My ChatGPT suggestion isn't just pulled out of nowhere. Just this April, Florida's attorney general launched an investigation over messages between ChatGPT and the Florida State Uni shooter.
Stop boiling down information to something you can lash out at.