By Selwyn Duke

We’ve all heard the stories about little boys punished for shaping
their fingers like or drawing a gun, or even just uttering the word
“gun.” But out of Austin, Texas, comes a story that makes those
incidents look like case studies in common sense. The Daily Caller reports:

In February, Justin Carter was playing
“League of Legends” — an online, multiplayer fantasy game — when another
player wrote a comment calling him insane. Carter’s response, which he
now deeply regrets, was intended as joke.

“He replied ‘Oh yeah, I’m real messed up
in the head, I’m going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat
their still, beating hearts,’ and the next two lines were lol and jk,” said Jack Carter, Justin’s father, in a statement to a local news channel.

What happened next was that a Canadian woman saw the quip and called
the police, after she found Carter’s address and determined it was near
an elementary school. (It’s real unusual for people in urban areas to
live near schools, and men bent on committing violent massacres will
never drive to their target. You know, the carbon footprint deterrent
and all.) What then transpired? Did the police actually go and question
Carter? They sure did.

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