Louisiana Teen Charged With "Terrorism" Over Shooting Game

[LAGC]

It just never seems to end: a student a H. L. Bourgeois High School has been accused of “using a mobile phone app to simulate shooting his classmates”. He was arrested, booked and jailed in Terrebonne Parish in Gray, LA last week. He’s now facing up to 20 years in prison for his.

The video the student made was with a perfectly legal app called “The Real Strike“. On the iTunes store description, it says: “Warning!!!: Do not use real guns in the real world!!! Let guns only exist in the apps!”

So what’s the problem? The 15-year-old who created the video with the app is charged with “terrorism”.

Local WGNO reports that “it simulates a first person shooter game, except the battleground is real life.”

http://politicalblindspot.com/teen-jailed-for-app/

So how's that "zero tolerance" policy working out for y'all?

[imanaknut]

Hind sight is 20/20. Suppose someone in the classroom at Virginia Tech had a pistol, and stopped that shooter before he entered the killing field, we would never have known that he was about to kill 30 people.

Suppose this kid with the killing app was not stopped, and decided one day to take daddy's rifle to school and play out his phone app. People would have screamed "why didn't you stop him when you knew what he was doing?" as they carted off the bodies.

Fortunately with this kid we will never know, will we?

[LAGC]

Only thing is, it doesn't sound like there were any guns in the home, he had no interest in guns outside of video games, and all he did was make a YouTube video of a completely legal mobile phone app.

You know, little facts that even a shoddy police investigation would turn up.

Can you say: prosecution for thoughtcrimes?

[Oswald Bastable]

http://politicalblindspot.com/teen-jailed-for-app/

So how's that "zero tolerance" policy working out for y'all?

Ah yes...zero tolerance...one of the finest socialist policies to ever come down the pike...

[LAGC]

Ah yes...zero tolerance...one of the finest socialist policies to ever come down the pike...

Sure about that? Seems like the more conservative states are more gung-ho when it comes to that type of black-and-white thinking.

Unless you think Louisiana -- reddest of the red states -- has been over-run by socialists?

[silentkilla]

Sure about that? Seems like the more conservative states are more gung-ho when it comes to that type of black-and-white thinking.

Unless you think Louisiana -- reddest of the red states -- has been over-run by socialists?

by god boy.. have you ever been to wesiana??

[Oswald Bastable]

Sure about that? Seems like the more conservative states are more gung-ho when it comes to that type of black-and-white thinking.

Unless you think Louisiana -- reddest of the red states -- has been over-run by socialists?

Zero-tolerance policies in the United States became widespread in 1994, after federal legislation required states to expel any student who brought a firearm to school for one year, or lose all federal funding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_tolerance_(schools)

And who was President then? And who was in complete charge of congress then (until mid-terms a year later when Newt and the contract with America took it back)?

This one can be laid directly at the feet of your socialist butt buddies.

[Dr. Gonzo GED]

Um, who is it you think supports "zero tolerance" bullshit in schools here?

AFAIK, only you and Kadmos have ever promoted it.