Melbourne teenager planned school shooting and university bombing, court hears

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-07/melbourne-teenager-explosives-fbi-bombing-school-shooting/104441794

9 Comments

  1. Roulette-Adventures on

    After reading the story and seeing how bullying may have contributed to his desire for revenge, I can’t help but wonder why bullies aren’t held partly accountable. I know I’ll get some hate for mentioning it, but when someone is pushed to the limits should the pusher and perpetrator be punished. I’m not trying to be a dick, but aren’t they partly to blame? I acknowledge people should be able to just walk away from being bullied and let it, but not everyone can do that.

  2. Surely if he had the intent written down and the means to carry out mass murder on hand, we should just utilise capital punishment at this point.
    Why waste resources on keeping someone so evil alive in prison.

  3. As a teacher that works with dangerous children, the fact that he has autism makes me even more worried. It is a spectrum,, and I don’t know where he is on it, but from my experience it’s much easier to stop them doing stuff by restriction them trying to explain to them why they shouldn’t do something.

    In his brain he is 100% justifed in his actions. In his brain the correct response to bulying is a school shooting. It’s whats been reported on the news, so he has to do it.

    In his mind he would be doing the wromg thing by not shooting up a school becasue he was bullied.

    I don’t think this person should be out on bail ever, not with out being supervised 24/7

  4. Suspiciousbogan on

    >He also allegedly aired grievances against ex-classmates in his notes and online Reddit postings.

    rauscirclejerk and raustralian member confirmed.

  5. > According to police documents, the teenager behaved aggressively at his former school, drew sexist and anti-Semitic graffiti, and was suspended for stealing science equipment and chemicals.

    > He also allegedly aired grievances against ex-classmates in his notes and online Reddit postings

    Why do we need the FBI to tell us what’s going on in our own backyard? This isn’t some criminal mastermind, our intelligence is just asleep at the wheel

  6. greywarden133 on

    >He also allegedly aired grievances against ex-classmates in his notes and online Reddit postings.

    Be nice to your random Redditors guys…