Spartanburg HS Kid Makes Snapchat Threat

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backwoodsshooter said:
I hear one can get a flip phone for only calling and txt.

Then there is ham radio.
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lol true and true. It's easier just to click an option on your providers website and make it the equivalent of a flip phone and ham radio. Honestly I'm not sure you can still get a flip fone anymore.
 
Ikarus1 said:
take away their phone and you've taken away most parents method of communication with their kid outside the house. Now you can restrict internet service to it.....
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I wonder how in the hell I survived without a cell phone growing up.
 
My oldest is 17 and just really getting into social media. But she just about refuse to deal with her class mates online unless it's a school related google chat group for a club or class. No Facebook. No snapchat that we know of, and no reason to think there is. She does some of the tumbler boards and mostly deals with folks over seas that are into the things she likes like anime or art.

My youngest is 13, nothing at all. And she has no interest in it.

It's interesting. When you start pointing out all the issues that their peers have with social media it looses some of it's luster.
 
Ikarus1 said:
lol true and true. It's easier just to click an option on your providers website and make it the equivalent of a flip phone and ham radio. Honestly I'm not sure you can still get a flip fone anymore.
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Oh they do. I thought about getting a flip phone. I use the iPad the most and I bet my FBI monitors will thank me for making their job easier with having to only monitor one instead of 2 devices
 
Stupid... Hardly the track record of the kid that actually did the shooting though. This was just a knee jerk reaction to a joke. They'll completely miss the overt signs from the next kid that's an actual threat as usual...
 
Here in the Triad there were three threats this week.
 
Multiple instances across the country in the last 2 days of kids bringing guns, bullets, brass to school. Many reasons. Bullying, elevate their street cred, stupidity. Garner kid supposedly expelled for 365 days for bringing gun to school. Parents will probably go to court to get him reinstated. Compulsory education and all that. It's a mess but I don't think more gun laws are the answer.
 
We already have laws that say children can't have guns. Why does anyone think that if folks don't follow the laws we have, they will follow any new ones?

eta: I may be over generalizing a bit but you get the idea.
 
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jimmyjames8 said:
Multiple instances across the country in the last 2 days of kids bringing guns, bullets, brass to school. Many reasons. Bullying, elevate their street cred, stupidity. Garner kid supposedly expelled for 365 days for bringing gun to school. Parents will probably go to court to get him reinstated. Compulsory education and all that. It's a mess but I don't think more gun laws are the answer.
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We really need to be focusing on the cause rather than the symptom. I just wish I knew how. @HMP (I think it was, sorry if I got it wrong) was saying how many school kids get two meals a day, both at school and taking issue with the fact that collectively we are paying for it. This is just another sign of the problem, which at its core is an economic and cultural one. I saw a graph on another forum showing when these shooting incidents occur. They tend to spike just before or during recessions.
 
noway2 said:
We really need to be focusing on the cause rather than the symptom. I just wish I knew how. @HMP (I think it was, sorry if I got it wrong) was saying how many school kids get two meals a day, both at school and taking issue with the fact that collectively we are paying for it. This is just another sign of the problem, which at its core is an economic and cultural one. I saw a graph on another forum showing when these shooting incidents occur. They tend to spike just before or during recessions.
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My issue was getting rid of this service for some kids who have zero control over their situation and are hungry.
Yes, we have an economic and cultural issue.
We have a culture, or at least a portion, which makes it 'ok' with people who are not economically able to have a kid having a kid...or multiple!
 
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