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Fed up with school shooting threats in his community, Chitwood pledged to publicly identify students accused of making such threats.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They aren't kidding about a wave of threats from kids. 5 or 6 in my town, both high schools and middle schools. Friends are reporting it in their towns too.

I'm guessing some sort of stupid TikTok challenge.

This sheriff is not helping.

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe. But here, there were a bunch of them in a very short time span and kids on social media were the culprits in all of them. That screams something along the lines of a TikTok challenge to me.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could see children deciding that this is how they get gun control laws.

[–] Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago

Or a day out of school, but hey if it in any way lessens the frequency of school shootings that's a win

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If this was a recent wave, I bet it was just the end of the summer and some kids just desperately not wanting to go back to school for whatever reasons

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Definitely not in the case of this town. School has been in session for over a month.

Edit: There was just no pattern to it- https://www.mywabashvalley.com/news/local-news/terre-haute-authorities-hold-school-safety-news-conference-after-threats-arrests/