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i dont understand what exactly folk are saying when they write "the parents should be held responsible"--mostly because these claims are made in short sentences without any qualification.
do you mean that this kid had no agency?
does it mean that a 14 year old does not actually do anything?
does it mean that the parents were really assembling grenades?
or are these claims really a way to avoid the issue of a kid with weapons who is understood in plymouth meeting (a suburb of philadelphia) as having "issued terrorist threats"--and by doing that to avoid addressing the problems raised by easy access to weapons?
seems to me the latter.
then there is the other issue of hysteria generated by the shootings in cleveland, by other school shootings....
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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