Morning of Shooting -While the Crumbleys sat in Principal's Office- The gun was in Ethan's backpack.

[kpete]

Let this sink in. While the Crumbleys sat in the Principal's Office the morning of the shooting, presumably with Ethan present.........the gun was in his backpack. When asked if they would take Ethan home, the parents insisted that he be sent back to class, and THEY WENT HOME.

Link to tweet

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Michigan school shooting: Ethan Crumbley ‘had gun with him’ at parent-teacher meeting hours before massacre
Prosecutors say the handgun Crumbley allegedly used in Tuesday’s deadly shooting was in his backpack when he arrived at school that morning.

The teen accused of carrying out a deadly shooting at his Michigan high school allegedly had the gun in his backpack during a meeting with administrators and his parents just three hours before the attack.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/michigan-school-shooting-ethan-crumbley-parent-meeting-b1969306.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. I guess schools are going to need metal detectors and check on backpacks before

entering the building. Like airports.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Some ISD's were doing this at some schools.

Don't know if it was implemented throughout the states though.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Nothing is being done to make schools safer.

Adults are making children responsible for their own safety via shooter drills.

[MagickMuffin]

7. Indeed, the gun lobby is just too strong and powerful

And they have a lot of help with the GQP, who have exhibited their disdain for the life of kids.


Dollars for the life of a child. And especially when these GQP people who already have more money than they need it still isn't enough so killing kids for cash is a way of for them. It IS their LIFESTYLE!

[Irish_Dem]

8. Leaders who are corrupt and cowards. Will do nothing to save the lives of children.

[Elessar Zappa]

12. There's been metal detectors

in some inner city schools since at least the 80s. Looks like the suburbs need to catch up.

[Irish_Dem]

19. Yep. The suburbs and small towns are where the murder of school children take place.

[Tanuki]

3. .....

Link to tweet

[bucolic_frolic]

5. +1

[Sunsky]

6. This ☝🏽

[Bettie]

9. "Mama" probably packed it for him with

a little note about how he should use it and make her proud of him! (Sarcasm, obviously)

Honestly, I doubt either parent much cared if he had a gun in his bag. They seem like terrible parents.

[BlackSkimmer]

10. It's amazing to me that no one searched his backpack and locker.

I mean, we hear of first graders suspended for making a gun gesture with their hand and being suspended. This school really dropped the ball.

[shrike3]

11. I was thinking the same thing.

WHY wouldn't they search the kid? Hard to believe.

[SYFROYH]

15. Its a problem that the school didnt see Ethan as an imminent threat

[BlackSkimmer]

16. It's amazing.

I guess he’d never been a problem before. But all those things that happened were huge red flags.

[BigmanPigman]

20. I heard that lockers are no longer used due to Covid.

The backpack is where the gun was the whole time. Clear backpacks and metal detectors would help a bit.

[malaise]

13. And neither the parents not the school folks thought they should search that backpack

the same parents who bought the gun for him a few days before and the mother who took him to a shooting range.
Throw away the keys for those scumbag parents.

[leftstreet]

14. I don't get why the parents were allowed to choose

It'll be interesting to see what the school's policies are

[BlackSkimmer]

17. I know.

Back in my day, schools just suspended kids as they saw fit.

[crickets]

18. +1

[BigmanPigman]

21. As a teacher I know first hand that schools have to be very

careful these days since parents have a ton of clout and they all threaten the school constantly over little BS issues. Schools are afraid of legal problems. You really have to walk a fine line these days, not like when I was a kid.

[leftstreet]

22. You'd think dead kids would be a bigger legal problem

I know you're right though about parents and clout