He said it in the heat of the moment, and was obviously not serious. I've said a thousand times before going into a game that I'm going to kill (insert gamertag here), but I'm not going to find the random guy and shove a magnum in his face.
By the way, if anyone gets pissed when someone commits an act like that its me. I'm one of those people that thinks after you do something like that your not a person anymore.
Evaluated, yes. Should that decision be made by anyone other than his parents? I don't think so, there was no reason for them to be involved in something like this, if this happened every time an idle threat was made, we'd all be afraid to talk.
I'm glad to hear someone bailed him out.
I don't care if it's the heat of the moment or not. It was completely inappropriate and well threatening. And yes there is light years difference between you saying that you want to kill "Joe Blow's gamertag" and posting online that you are going to shoot up a school and eat the heart of one of the kids.
I get the heat of the moment stuff like what you do. It happens and people tend to let it go however that does not make it acceptable by any means. Any threat to harm somebody should be taken seriously even if the person giving it is sarcastic at the time. If you let up for even a moment then somebody who actually will do what they are saying/posting can slip through and then there is blood being spilt. I don't know about you but I have no reason to take any chances for that kind of thing to happen.
He is a legal adult and knew what the heck was going on in the world. How could he not know about the school shootings over the years? They made news the world over.
His mom is complaining about his condition in prison. Well when you make moronic comments like that on the internet people aren't exactly friendly, more so in prison. Yes he needed to be isolated for protection. Am I agreeing with the possible actions of the other inmates there? Not a chance. But I can understand a possible motivation for it.
Young and old people these days need to learn that once you put something on the internet you can not take it away. Once something is said you can not unsay it. You need to choose your words carefully. Think before you post. If your pissed and create something around violence then just don't put it on the net. Better safe than sorry. There just is no excuse for posting crap like that, absolutely none.
And as I said before he deserves to be punished. A 10 year sentence is a bit much but not out of line. Texas has every right to consider it a terrorist like attack which is where that 10 years comes from. I can not say what I would do to punish this person because honestly I just don't know what exactly should be done. I am not that kind of person who can make those choices, nor do I ever want to be. But again he still deserves to be punished.
