If you watch the news, then I'm sure you've heard about the high school bomb plot in Utah that Salt Lake City Police discovered earlier this week, pulling the supposed masterminds behind it all out of school on Wednesday. 18 year old Dallin Morgan, and an unnamed 16 year old planned their attack and getaway, stating in text messages to each other that "We need revenge on the world." Now, I don't know if these two kids were aware at the time they devised this plan, but killing some innocent people at their school doesn't exactly earn them revenge on the world, instead it would have earned them a death sentence by either the hands of the police, or the executioner 20 years from now. I personally prefer the former.
The two students had a very brilliant getaway plan too......Not really. They logged hundreds of hours on a flight simulator program at their home, so that when they had completed their terrorist act, they would somehow get all the way to the airport, steal a plane, and "fly away to a country that won't send us back to the U.S." The quote comes from the 16 year old's statement made to police a few hours after being arrested. The 18 year old was obsessed with the columbine school massacre that occurred in 1999, and even made a visit to Columbine High School on December 13th to interview the principal about the shootings.
Really? You're telling me that this psychotic looking teenager just got it in his head one day to blow up his school and escape to another country, and his parents were shocked to find out. If I had a son walking around my house that looked like that, he'd be moving out real fast. I don't want to wake up in the middle of the night with this creepy looking dude staring down at me with a big evil grin on his face holding a knife. I don't care if he's my son or not, I wouldn't be the type of parent that would allow my child to be a socially awkward recluse that stays in his room and has hardly any personal interaction with others(as I'm pretty sure was the case with this kid), and not worry that something might be going on with him. For these parents to state that neither of their sons displayed any type of warning signs of their obvious mental health issues, means that either these two boys were either incredibly gifted in the art of deception(meaning they were able to hide their rage and hatred toward the world, acting completely normal around everyone they know. Not the most likely scenario), or it is a very serious case of child neglect and lack of attention from the parents.
In my opinion, I think the parents should be brought up on charges of child neglect, for their total lack of personal involvement in these two boys lives. Unfortunately, our legal system doesn't work that way, and these obviously bad parents, get to plead ignorance. What if they had been able to pull off their attack, resulting in the deaths of possibly hundreds of students, and were somehow able to escape? How would the parents respond then? Even more blissfully ignorant................No parent is going to come out and speak to the media after such an event, and say something like, "Yeah, I figured there must of been something wrong with the boy, he's been out in the garage messing around with a bunch gunpowder and what not, and making lists of people he wanted dead, but I just figured it was some sort of phase."
In closing, I would like to just say, that there is absolutely no excuse for such tragedies like school shootings to occur if the child, or children that cause the tragedy have two involved, intelligent parents, that show a bit of interest in their child's life, other than the classic 'give them what they want so they'll shut up and leave me alone' mentality that I believe a lot of parents have in this day and age..........
How do you feel on this subject?
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