Father of school shooter charged

"In May 2023, law enforcement officials questioned Colt Gray and his father about “online threats to commit a school shooting” that included photos of guns, according to a joint statement from FBI Atlanta and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office."

I am just completely dumbfounded over this! In May of last year, they were questioned about threats of a school shooting. So then in December of the same year, the dad got his son an AR-15 for Christmas.

This father needs to be thrown under the jail.

Good! That man deserves prison time. He knew his son was a threat to society and not only bought him a gun, but bought him a gun that has been used in every mass shooting. Lock them both up. Let's have some proper gun reform and destroy every last AR-15 in this country. I'm so done with these shootings! What the hell is wrong with this country that politicians value guns over human life?!

Good. Maybe if these idiots are held accountable it will send a message to other like minded idiots that giving your troubled kid access to a deadly weapon might not be the best idea. Seriously, WTF was that guy thinking?

Can I ask why you think that? I am not trying to stir the pot at all, I just see the back-lash on "AR" and wonder if it is just the ArmaLite brand and it's appearance? All ArmaLite rifles? What about something like a Ruger Mini-14, which is also semi-auto and uses a .223 round also? But looks more traditional wood stock type rifle?

I think the owner of the firearm is responsible for what happens with that firearm!

AR-15, AK-47 type guns are weapons of WAR. They are not good for hunting. They are made to KILL PEOPLE!
RIP them into shreds... Destroy their insides/organs!

Am I reading this correctly? School started around Aug 1st. Does this say he didn't start going to this particular school until Sep 3rd, he went 1/2 day then on Sep 4th, he committed the shootings?

It's a life style..

Could you please provide the site where you heard he had only attended school for a half day? Thanks!

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Yup, that’s what I read as well. I think Library lady may have misunderstood what she heard?

ETA: info below.

Wow. Thank you for posting that. I did several searches using different wording each time and came up empty.

I am glad that the father has been charged. This whole situation is so sad.

No, AR -15s were designed with a high muzzle velocity to have a “maximum wound effect”. They do tear the body apart, regardless of the ammunition used. They are much more lethal and capable of inflicting significantly more damage in comparison to a a handgun.

First responders have started carrying specially designed kits to treat the battlefield wounds inflicted by AR-15s and other military style weapons.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ar-15-mass-shootings-60-minutes-2022-05-29/



Warning -this simulation and the description are pretty graphic

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-damage-to-human-body/

The AR-15 fires bullets at such a high velocity — often in a barrage of 30 or even 100 in rapid succession — that it can eviscerate multiple people in seconds. A single bullet lands with a shock wave intense enough to blow apart a skull and demolish vital organs. The impact is even more acute on the compact body of a small child.
“It literally can pulverize bones, it can shatter your liver and it can provide this blast effect,” said Joseph Sakran, a gunshot survivor who advocates for gun violence prevention and a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
During surgery on people shot with high-velocity rounds, he said, body tissue “literally just crumbled into your hands.”

Any bullet can kill, and instantly, when it hits a vital organ. The higher speed of a bullet from an AR-15 causes far more damage after it hits the body and drastically reduces a person’s chances of survival.
“As that bullet slows down,” said trauma surgeon Babak Sarani, an authority on casualties from mass killings, “that energy is so massive it has to go someplace, and your body will literally tear apart.”


Many states do not allow AR-15s for hunting. Or, if they do, there are restrictions.

They’re semi- automatic but have been used in a significant number of the most deadly mass shootings including Uvalde, Parkland, Buffalo, Las Vegas and Orlando. Even without a bump stock, AR -15s can fire up to 60 rounds per minute.

AR-15s were originally designed for the military then Colt started selling and marketing a civilian version. The gun industry has rebranded them as “modern sporting rifles” but they were originally designed as weapons of war.

I really do dislike not providing the whole truth( not you but the authors of the articles quoted)
“Many states do not allow ARs for hunting”
True because it will not effectively kill large game( deer, elk, bear) to be considered ethnically humane.

“High muzzle velocity” depends on two factors
Barrel length and the bullet.
Longer the barrel= higher velocity to a point
Two different bullets can have vastly different speeds.
.220swift bullet has 4,000fps
.556 has 2,700fps

The fps matters for effective killing based on distance.
Hand guns lower fps due to distance of target (victim)
Long rifles were meant for distance shooting this the need for increased velocity.

As far as the arrival stating that first responders are carrying specially designed kits for winds inflicted by AR-15 is again half truth.
They are carrying kit at that contain multiple of each item needed to treat a gunshot wound due to the likelihood good a victim will have multiple shoots not because they were shoot by a .556 round.
This is is not a wound kit for AR-15 but for a mass shooting.

Then there is the “inflict mass damage” statement, an AR-15 that s no mare deadly than an other long rifle on its own.
It will be the type of ammunition you choose that will determine the damage it can inflict, some bullets are specifically made to shatter upon impact sending fragments into surrounding tissue. Others are designed to mushroom.


Why don’t we address the true point of why the AR-15 is really the prefers choice for these shootings and it is the same reason the military uses them.

They are reliable and simple to troubleshoot during a vital timeframe.
Has built in (google s.p.o.r.t.s as I don’t feel like trying all of that out.)
But the ability to clear a jam in the rifle within seconds allowed a shooter to continue with firing the weapon.

Cost of AR style- cheap in comparison to other weapons that can do more damage.

The length allows an aggressor to pray and spray.
By using two hands at waist level it allows for more accuracy rather than handguns.

Wanted to point out that them being a semi automatic means nothing as all hand guns are also.
Semi auto matrix is just the next bullet automatically advancing rather than manually having to be( bolt action)

But I think that the biggest elephant in the room I have not seen no one has mention is that mass shooting seem to be all white males.

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Not to pick in iowgirl or anyone else in particular but whenever I see 'because tradition' or similar it makes me a tad crazy. Or at least question that as an answer to why questions.

Many a tradition have been abandoned as archaic and outdated and some simply wrong. Some actually outlawed as should be. Tradition when used an an excuse for something is weird to me, as no further thought give, in many cases. 'I'll continue to xxx simply because we always have.' Weird and sometimes hurtful or even dangerous, to me.