It seems there’s more to this than a child going on a rampage with an evil gun. The Georgia shooter’s father was arrested late yesterday on charges of child abuse and endangerment, and more. 

The father of the Apalachee High School shooting suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting that left four people dead, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Colin Gray, 54, has been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children, the GBI said Thursday.

His son, Colt Gray, a 14-year-old student, is accused of killing two students and two teachers with an AR-style rifle in the Wednesday shooting. Nine more people were hospitalized. The teen has been charged with four counts of felony murder, according to charging documents obtained by CNN. He is expected to be tried as an adult, the GBI and Barrow County sheriff have said.

This is a tragedy on multiple levels. First, that a 14 year old is so disturbed that he feels their only choice is to attack others, in this case with a gun. Secondly, that family members plus possibly a former teacher or two took to social media and threw the shooter’s parents under the bus. 

The family of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray threatened to go ‘full throttle’ after the 14-year-old was charged as an adult for murdering four people on Wednesday.

Gray’s relatives leapt to his defense within hours of him opening fire at Apalachee High School, where he allegedly killed four people and injured nine others.

The teenager’s aunt, Annie Polhamus Brown, took to Facebook during the aftermath, bringing up the issues he ‘dealt with’ and saying she ‘will take care of my nephew and what he needs on this side.’

I read that news report earlier yesterday and thought, there are some serious family problems going on here. And that was hours prior to the arrest of Colin Gray. 

The third issue is this: the FBI visited the family home after significant online threats were made by that child. Given the reports, all the FBI needed, yet again, was just a verbal reassurance that everything was super duper ok and that was the end of that. I mean, they KNEW that online threats had come from the kid’s computer and yet the FBI just walked way?? 

HELLLOOOOOOO FBI!! Guess what happened next??

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Oh you read that correctly. This disturbed and very possibly abused 14 year old child was GIFTED an AR-15…AFTER the FBI showed up at their home. 

The charges come after it was revealed that Colin Gray purchased the AR-15-style rifle Colt allegedly used in the massacre as a Christmas gift last December.

Colt received the deadly present from his father just seven months after authorities visited the pair when the FBI received tips about online school shooting threats, according to the federal agency.

It is an absolute miracle that more weren’t killed yesterday. It’s solely due to how the school did handle things, mostly…and the quick thinking of students in the classroom. 

That said, for all those who have jumped on the GUNS BAD! bandwagon… Check the HELL out of yourselves. As with the incredibly disturbed Nashville shooter, there is much more to the story of this particular incident in Georgia. And it involves the issues of mental health and possibly child abuse. None of which are Second Amendment issues. 

Yet once again, when the ink was barely dry on the first news of this shooting, the gun control activists and idiotic politicians went full throttle. 

What they are ignoring is what others are finding out. That young man’s life at home was a train wreck on multiple levels. It turns out, his mother has major issues as well as significant problems with the law. 

His mother, Marcee, 43, has a lengthy rap sheet with drug and domestic violence arrests.

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“There were nights where the mom would lock him and his sister out the house. And they would be banging on the back door, just screaming like ‘Mom! mom! mom!’ and crying. It was absolutely devastating,” she said.

It’s becoming more evident that that child’s life at home was toxic. And yes, ALL the adults in his life, including his extended family, failed him. Which can also be said of the Nashville shooter. 

There’s a young man facing life in prison for killing his peers and two teachers. Media, politicians and pundits want to blame the gun. It wasn’t the gun that started that young man on his path of destruction. It’s looking like the environment around him, including his immediate family, is the culprit. 

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