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Offline PeasInQueues

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Swatted
« on: June 05, 2018, 02:16:00 pm »
Somebody swatted Parkland survivor David Hogg's family home.

Besides how dangerous we know this was because of the man killed for pulling his pants up at the wrong time when he was swatted, what kind of person does this to the survivor of a mass shooting?  >:(

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Re: Swatted
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2018, 06:37:42 pm »
That's absolutely disgusting, my heart goes out to that family. I hope they find the person who did it and charge them with everything in the book

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Re: Swatted
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2018, 07:25:25 pm »
What does ‘swatted’ mean?
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« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2018, 08:48:55 pm »
What does ‘swatted’ mean?

It's when someone calls emergency services and declares an emergency of a type which results in a swat team being sent unnecessarily to another individual's home. 
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« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2018, 04:30:30 pm »
Yes, somebody died after being swatted a few months ago - shot by police standing in his driveway. That one was allegedly over a game.

The whole conspiracy around shootings being faked is one of those things that is just... beyond my powers of comprehension. someone from my town was in an American mass shooting (I'm in Canada) and has gotten death threats and other horrible things. The fact that people send awful messages to the parents of children killed is just... I cannot wrap my head around it. They think it's an anti-gun conspiracy despite the fact that if guns were going to be restricted/banned because of mass shootings, it would've happened by now.

it makes me really wonder about these people's thought processes. "Hm, should I send a hateful message to this person? If I'm right, I let them know I know! If I'm wrong, I'm sending a monstrous message to someone who survived a shooting or whose family member died. Let's do it!" ARGH WHY.

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Re: Swatted
« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2018, 07:15:59 pm »
When I find myself asking these type of questions, and doing so more and more these past 17 months or so, I have to remind myself we cannot rationalize the irrational. And these people are not rational. What is scary is how dangerous some of them probably are and are given more license, for lack of a better term, to act on their insanity because of little consequence.



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Re: Swatted
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2018, 09:26:33 pm »
I can't even comprehend someone who would do this - or the people claiming David Hogg did it himself for the attention.  I think these people also believe the earth is flat.

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« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2018, 09:51:43 pm »
I can't even comprehend someone who would do this - or the people claiming David Hogg did it himself for the attention.  I think these people also believe the earth is flat.

You kid, but the Flat Earth Society is having a resurgence.

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Re: Swatted
« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2018, 09:35:57 am »
Somebody swatted Parkland survivor David Hogg's family home.

Besides how dangerous we know this was because of the man killed for pulling his pants up at the wrong time when he was swatted, what kind of person does this to the survivor of a mass shooting?  >:(

The same people that torment the parents of kindergartners killed in mass shootings.  People who do these things need to be prosecuted and get jail time.  That's the only way it will stop. I also think victims and their families need to file civil lawsuits.  These people obviously have no moral compass, so jail time and having to pay out tons of money may be the only deterrents.
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