Please no more sympathy for the shooter

[Abolishinist]

37. I have no idea if he was a "good kid" or not. That's not the point.

But it does seem to me that in the last 24 hours, many on this site have jumped to so many "conclusions" as to what happened that perhaps we should let this play out a bit more. You know, more legitimate information. As former9thward said, The "bullied mercifully" quote came from exactly one teenager.

For Christo's sake, there are threads talking about the shooter being in cahoots with right-wingers, that this was orchestrated by the right. That the former had a pill behind his ear that he crushed at just the right, pre-planned time. Ad nauseum.

And on the surface, there is little that would indicate that his parents were whack-jobs. Both of Crooks’ parents worked as social workers, according to state license records. His father is registered to vote as a Libertarian and his mother is registered as a Democrat, state voter records show.