NYT: Julian Edelman may have helped stop a school shooting

PatriotsReign said:

I don’t think anyone cares what happened to the sick kid that made the threat. If they went through his house with a tank, it’s ok

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Speak for yourself, because I care.

It was a pretty awful and frightening comment to make and the authorities did the correct thing by addressing it in a serious manner. That said, he's a kid, and a relatively young one at that. Kids have forever said and done incredibly stupid things, sometimes seemingly evil and malicious things. In today's world anything posted on social media is in the 'ether' permanently, can't angrily mutter a threat under one's own breath, or go off on several people in an irrational fit of rage only to have it pass in a few days, as I'm sure has happened countless times before the rise of social media (and probably still does occur today, but the person is fortunate enough to not share their sentiments on a social media platform).

I hope the issue is fully and completely addressed, and perhaps this guy does have some antisocial personality traits that will prevent him from functioning in society but by no means should that be assumed. I hope he gets a second chance and takes full advantage of that opportunity to learn, grow, and become a better person. The guy is 14, he's far from a lost cause.

PatriotsReign said:

I don’t think anyone cares what happened to the sick kid that made the threat. If they went through his house with a tank, it’s ok

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Hyperbole aside that 'sick kid' may now get whatever help he needs and at no one else's expense. I'd call that a win-win.

XLIX said:

The threat was originally posted on Wes Welker's Instagram account, but when Welker went to contact the authorities, he dropped the phone.

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TBR said:

Why would someone see a comment like that and message Edelman as if it's his responsibility to do something? Especially when popular figures likely don't see or read their messages from random people.

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Maybe they thought he had an assistant who used her affiliation to get the cops in 2 cities to find this kid?

Can't see why anyone doubts he could have done something. We have a year's worth of gun deaths for most countries every couple of weeks.

I am a pastry chef at a bakery, and one day I was looking out the window and saw two teenage boys with hoods over there heads, walking down the road with what looked incredibly like AR15 type guns. I was 99% sure they were paintball guns, but there are no paintball places in the direction they were walking, but there are about six schools and a daycare. I couldn’t take the chance on even the 1% so I called the police. They got to the area so fast it’s was incredible. One officer came in to ask me questions, he’s been in before and normally we crack jokes and we laugh, but this dude was 100% serious this time (as he should have been) and said to call even if you have any type of concern about this stuff, even 1% or less...thankfully it ended up being nothing.

Strange epoch we’re living in. The dragons mouth must have already spit out the frogs.

dreighver said:

Speak for yourself, because I care.

It was a pretty awful and frightening comment to make and the authorities did the correct thing by addressing it in a serious manner. That said, he's a kid, and a relatively young one at that. Kids have forever said and done incredibly stupid things, sometimes seemingly evil and malicious things. In today's world anything posted on social media is in the 'ether' permanently, can't angrily mutter a threat under one's own breath, or go off on several people in an irrational fit of rage only to have it pass in a few days, as I'm sure has happened countless times before the rise of social media (and probably still does occur today, but the person is fortunate enough to not share their sentiments on a social media platform).

I hope the issue is fully and completely addressed, and perhaps this guy does have some antisocial personality traits that will prevent him from functioning in society but by no means should that be assumed. I hope he gets a second chance and takes full advantage of that opportunity to learn, grow, and become a better person. The guy is 14, he's far from a lost cause.

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It’s no different today than when I grew up. He doesn’t get any sympathy from me. I’m fine with him getting help, but I’ll save my sympathy for victims...and he’s not a victim

This issue isn’t about “feelings”. I think too many look at issues on an emotional level. I’m more pragmatic and I think we have too many crazy people walking our streets when they should be locked up

PatriotsReign said:

It’s no different today than when I grew up. He doesn’t get any sympathy from me. I’m fine with him getting help, but I’ll save my sympathy for victims...and he’s not a victim

This issue isn’t about “feelings”. I think too many look at issues on an emotional level. I’m more pragmatic and I think we have too many crazy people walking our streets when they should be locked up

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Yes we have too many crazy people walking the streets. Tell us why since you're doing all the thinking.

Clonamery said:

Yes we have too many crazy people walking the streets. Tell us why since you're doing all the thinking.

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I wasn’t discussing the why, I just made a statement. When I was young, crazy people were locked up. On most levels, that was wrong. But I think some still need to be locked up.

My girlfriend works in a mental hospital and tells me how incapable many are of living in society. We don’t have the resources to fix every social ill we have, so it comes down to doing the best we can with the safety of society the top priority

PatriotsReign said:

It’s no different today than when I grew up. He doesn’t get any sympathy from me. I’m fine with him getting help, but I’ll save my sympathy for victims...and he’s not a victim

This issue isn’t about “feelings”. I think too many look at issues on an emotional level. I’m more pragmatic and I think we have too many crazy people walking our streets when they should be locked up

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Who made any mention of sympathy (besides yourself)? That seems to be something you're assuming was implied in my post, despite the fact that I never stated anything about sympathy, compassion, whatever.

I simply don't think a 14 year old kid should be judged as a permanently useless, incompatible menace to society based on this one action. I'm willing to give him a chance to learn and grow from his actions. Whether he does remains to be seen.

BadMoFo said:

Crazy story.


Patriots’ Julian Edelman May Have Thwarted a School Shooting

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His name means noble man so . . . no surprise!

XLIX said:

The threat was originally posted on Wes Welker's Instagram account, but when Welker went to contact the authorities, he dropped the phone.

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**** the dislikes, this was perfect

maust1013 said:

Apparently he has mastered that as well since he's never suffered an off season knee injury. Sadly, you remain...zingless.

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You're really going to differentiate between offseason and preseason...I'm just going to stay with a solid zing

Just when I thought Jules couldn't get any cooler.

Good job, JE11!

cscirpoli said:

Keep his knee from breaking in the offseason...zing!

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Why must losers like you pee on this parade? Shame on you.

cscirpoli said:

You're really going to differentiate between offseason and preseason...I'm just going to stay with a solid zing

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Uh...you get back to us when they play offseason games in the meantime...

TBR said:

Why would someone see a comment like that and message Edelman as if it's his responsibility to do something? Especially when popular figures likely don't see or read their messages from random people.

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Not his (Edelman's) responsibility but maybe the kid who say the comment didn't know where else to turn. In addition, what will get the attention of the police more:
a) some kid calling the cops saying I read a comment on an Instagram board of an NFL player of a kid making a threat but I don't know where it is. or
b) I am the special assistant to an NFL player who had a threat posted on his Instagram account.
While both will be taken seriously in this age, b) gets it taken more seriously...

dreighver said:

Who made any mention of sympathy (besides yourself)? That seems to be something you're assuming was implied in my post, despite the fact that I never stated anything about sympathy, compassion, whatever.

I simply don't think a 14 year old kid should be judged as a permanently useless, incompatible menace to society based on this one action. I'm willing to give him a chance to learn and grow from his actions. Whether he does remains to be seen.

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I never said otherwise. I just said I don’t care