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The Florida Middle Schoolers Planning a Columbine (Pruitt and Bird)
from #270 - Havana Syndrome | The Tim Dillon Show · #270
4 min
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Tim and Ben discuss two 13- and 14-year-old Florida boys, inspired by Parkland, caught planning a mass shooting with black-market guns and pipe bomb plans, and Tim begins arguing they should simply be killed.
- Middle school students in Florida were extensively studying the Columbine shooting and found with knives, guns, and instructions for purchasing firearms on the black market and constructing pipe bombs.
- Tim imagines a parent-teacher conference: "To be honest, he was purchasing firearms on the black market and trying to learn how to make pipe bombs."
- Authorities had visited the two students' homes combined nearly 80 times, and both met criteria for mental health facility evaluations.
- Tim questions whether police should have just killed the kids instead, given that 80 visits to their homes suggests a persistent problem.
- The students were also recruiting others to participate in their plot.
- Tim argues these kids will be nightmares their entire lives and insists execution is the only solution.
- Tim dismisses the possibility of redemption: there's no story where someone went from building pipe bombs and getting weapons at 13 to becoming a happy barista.
- Climbing from pipe bombs at 13 to being a productive member of society is a steep hill; Tim reiterates they should be killed.
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