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Irish_Dem

(80,426 posts)
3. Yep, in America killing 4 schoolchildren with a gun makes you a hero.
Fri Dec 3, 2021, 09:30 PM
Dec 2021

And your parents who helped you commit the crime.

haele

(15,204 posts)
4. Probably not. Their kid shot white kids.
Fri Dec 3, 2021, 09:32 PM
Dec 2021

And not for anything close to a justified (in their eyes) reason - he wasn't being bullied, they weren't liberals or gays or whatever. This is a good, Christian American town in a generally red area.
And they left their kid in custody. They look like selfish, childish fools, not "Trump Patriot Warriors" or whatever they've been pretending to be over the past years.

Haele

gab13by13

(31,634 posts)
13. The right will go after the DA.
Fri Dec 3, 2021, 10:32 PM
Dec 2021

She was devastated over this and opened up her heart to her feelings which the right will attack.

ChoppinBroccoli

(3,900 posts)
11. As Soon As I Heard The Father Gave The Kid The Gun, I Pegged Them As Militia MEMBERS
Fri Dec 3, 2021, 10:26 PM
Dec 2021

So I expect it to come out any day now that they're full-blown MEMBERS of one of the Michigan Militia groups. I also fully expect that they're members of some sort of White Supremacist group, or at least sympathetic to them (we know that the authorities seized their social media pages before they were charged so they couldn't delete the evidence--when that info becomes public, I fully expect you'll see they were posting about White Supremacy).

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
7. Long. FReaks seem almost all condemnatory of the Crumblys. One outlier complained about persecution
Fri Dec 3, 2021, 10:04 PM
Dec 2021

Three posts show sentiments we'd think odd for FReaks.

They ran. How stupid.
1 posted on 2021-12-03 by ChicagoConservative27

Well... look at the son.
But I can’t help but point out that if he had looked like Obama...
2 posted on 2021-12-03 by Skywise

To: Skywise
True. The kid would have been shot dead by cops immediately at school.
4 posted on 2021-12-03 by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )


And then there is this, a rare post in a large thread:

“Jennifer and Jason Crumbley were charged with four counts each of involuntary manslaughter on Friday, a rare move by prosecutors who said the parents failed to secure their guns and didn’t respond to their son’s distressing behavior. “

Ludicrous!
There is no law in MI that requires guns to be locked up. And there’s been no information made public that the parents knew their kid was a threat.
It’s an unfounded political prosecution.
10 posted on 2021-12-03 by Mariner (War criminal #18)

iemanja

(57,630 posts)
9. Interesting assortment
Fri Dec 3, 2021, 10:13 PM
Dec 2021

My guess is the one who said the shooter would have been shot dead if he were black has already been tombstoned.

padah513

(2,708 posts)
10. Cawthorne said for them to turn their sons into monsters
Fri Dec 3, 2021, 10:25 PM
Dec 2021

I hope that's their defense. Love to put a nail in the coffin of that psycho.

Midnight Writer

(25,209 posts)
15. That's exactly what I thought of. This is Cawthorne's fantasy and we should put it in his face.
Fri Dec 3, 2021, 10:35 PM
Dec 2021

I'm sick of these narcistic sociopaths trying to incite the loonies.

They know exactly what they are doing.

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
19. The campaign ads are writing themselves. Susan Tillis, Thom Tillis's wife...
Fri Dec 3, 2021, 10:48 PM
Dec 2021

already slammed Maddie on Twitter over his decision to run in NC-13. She's a hardcore Republican but based on her Twitter feed, doesn't seem insane like QBert or MTG. I can't imagine #Sitler's "earthen vessel" bullshit sitting well with her and others like her. Or his "monsters" remarks. SOMEONE needs to take that little shit out.

ChoppinBroccoli

(3,900 posts)
12. Wonder If He'll Use The Kyle Rittenhouse Defense
Fri Dec 3, 2021, 10:28 PM
Dec 2021

At his trial, apparently all he has to do is say that the kids at the school rushed him and he feared for his life, so he killed them in self defense. And we know for a fact that the football player who died DID rush him, so there's your Rittenhouse defense right there. He was big and scary, so I had to shoot him. Maybe squeeze out a few fake tears. He'll be back on the streets and on stage at a Trump rally before you know it. He's in Michigan, so maybe he can have Ted Nugent fund his defense or sit at counsel table with him, or some damn thing.

gab13by13

(31,634 posts)
16. With weak gun laws,
Fri Dec 3, 2021, 10:37 PM
Dec 2021

there is no law in Michigan that guns have to be secured in houses, I bet had the parents not run they wouldn't have been convicted of manslaughter but a lesser charge, maybe not now.

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