According to another translation of the Greek tv interview, when questioned about why he didn’t lock up the guns, he said that locks were expensive, as if that is a valid excuse.
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Yeah, when you hear this from your school shooter son, you immediately burst into tears and consider where you went wrong (definitely leaving guns unsecured for starters) and how your son could possibly think this way - you don’t run to the nearest news outlet and publicize some delusional crap about “bad kids”
Women loners often still have men harassing them, and of course harassment is seen as simple romantic attention. How can you be seen as a loner when people think you have a thing going with some guy who won’t leave you alone?
Completely agree - I could not be more sickened by the coverage of the father’s words, and the many, many headlines that imply that the girl(s) brought it on themselves.
It used to be that crashes and deaths caused by driving while drunk was just considered a part of the inherent risk of driving. People drive; people drink; sometimes bad things happen. Such is life. It took a concerted effort of pissed of moms of dead kids to say that conceptualization was fucked up and it’s not only…
YES YES YES. That’s the real story here- the guns. WTF were they doing with guns within reach of their weird kid. Or any kid. All this bullying and loneliness stuff strikes me as a distraction.
Just keep at it - bring them into our horrible world as wisely as you possibly can for their age/cognitive level, with reassuring hugs afterwards. They need to know.
Maybe if he’d died too I could understand it. They’d be grieving, and people can do fucked up things when they’re grieving.
The media may be reporting that, but people in this area are not buying it. My whole office has nothing but contempt for the shooter’s family trying to play like he is a victim. Most people want the father arrested too- for failing to secure his firearms. People are pissed.
Great writing.
Agreed. They’ll be reeling, so it’s hard to judge what they say about their child. But there was nothing in that statement about the victims of their son’s murderous rage. I found the omission to be glaring, and disturbing.
I don’t know if there is a “right” way for parents to behave and speak out after something like this but this feels gross to me. Apologize for what your child did and then shut up. I’m sure it’s hard to process something like this but it’s just not the same thing as having your child murdered in cold blood, ESPECIALLY…
See I feel like Tig is the perfect First Lady. She’d be ambivalent and introverted. My experience of being a rabbi’s husband is that people let shit slip that they would never tell the rabbi; and then you go home, put the kids to bed and say, “What the fuck just happened?” The President’s spouse must be like that on…
My blood is boiling. This administration is so cruel to the most neglected and neediest people. The global gag rule is so awful and now being used here. PP is 100% being targeted and punished although they do not use federal money for abortions. They provide access to healthcare so many women desperately need and…
IT’S A FUCKING LEGAL SERVICE.
Probly bought the ticket just so he could tell that story about walking out.
A middling quote and one provided by Tambor himself does not a compelling argument make.
See these pieces from Alexandra Billings and Dawn Ennis: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeffrey-tambor-sexual-harassment-alexandra-billings_us_5af474bee4b0859d11d14647 and https://lifeafterdawn.com/2018/03/02/stop-lying-jeffrey-tambor/.