The number of threats after a Georgia school shooting this month is much higher than usual, many officials said. In response, some have cracked down with arrests and detention for children as young as 10.

Earlier this month, a detective knocked on Shavon Harvey’s door, in suburban Ohio, to ask about her son. The son had sent a Snapchat message from her phone to his friends, saying there would be shootings at several schools nearby.

She rushed to the police station, where her son was already in custody, but the police did not release him. He was charged with inducing panic, a second-degree felony, and officials kept him in detention for 10 nights.

He is 10.

  • metaStatic
    -2•3 months ago

    No, it’s a largely because of the kids shooting up schools.

    Sane gun laws are the only reasonable response yet here we are 25 years later critiquing my stupid ass high school sense of humor instead of doing anything about it. but keep telling yourselves it’s anything besides the kid with access to a gun, it saves the Onion writing a different article.

    • @[email protected]
      5•3 months ago

      They’re mad at you because you made jokes of a serious issue that only exists because the US is a dumb pace where guns have more rights than kids. If it were anywhere else it would just be an edgy joke. In the US it’s like dressing up in an SS uniform to a Holocaust convention… A little too edgy…