A terrorist act or just plain youthful stupidity

[packman]

A father is suing the city of Pensacola and the Escambia County School District after his son was arrested and reassigned to an alternative school for posting a school shooting "meme."

The incident, which occurred in 2018, involved a student who was at the time an eighth grader at Workman Middle School. The student reportedly made an Instagram post with a picture of an individual attaching a silencer to a handgun and the caption, "When you're shooting up the school and about to enter the library."

The picture was reportedly posted Feb. 13, 2018, a day before 17 people were shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. A parent reported the post to a Workman guidance counselor Feb. 16, and the juvenile was arrested by a school resource officer that day for "conspiring to disrupt the education process," according to the lawsuit.

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2020/08/17/pensacola-students-family-sues-after-arrest-over-school-shooting-meme/3381129001/

[berni_mccoy]

1. There's a few things you don't do

You don’t scream Fire in a crowded theater
You don’t talk about bombs when boarding planes
And you don’t joke about school shootings

[demosincebirth]

3. There's never a time...

[mr_lebowski]

2. I gotta admit, that meme actually is kinda funny in a morbid sort of way ...

Kid picked a REALLY bad time to post it though that's for sure.

[unblock]

4. And a good time to post it would be...?

[mr_lebowski]

6. Definitely not 1 day before 17 kids were murdered at a school ...

It's always a bad time ... that was a REALLY bad time.

[bbernardini]

5. I'm going to go with youthful stupidity.

In another context, the joke could be pretty damn hilarious. I could easily see a joke like this in a "Naked Gun" or "Top Secret" style film, where characters are having a running gun battle, but they all stop to attach silencers when the chase takes them into a library.

As a school shooting joke? Not funny.

[ms liberty]

7. This. In that context, yea it would be hilarious! Otherwise, not so much. n/t

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. I go with youthful stupidity.

Especially given he was an 8th grader.