[OKSooner]

Something ain't right about this.

I have no idea what it is, but this kid is too well connected and is just too Johnny on the spot, conveniently.

And he seems to have quickly gotten over the grief of having his classmates murdered.

It's just all too convenient, and it's not just him. I heard a sound byte of a girl's voice this afternoon.

[Blue Jays]

"...too connected / too Johnny-On-The-Spot / too over his grief / too convenient..."

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Concur with you 100% on all points.
One of my grandmothers died of fast-moving cancer when I was an innocent and kindhearted 16 y.o.
I had about two months to prepare, yet I was still inconsolable when it finally happened.

Notice all these kids who they are interviewing? They are each ALL BUSINESS. Not so much as a quivering lip or wiping a tear.
They have rage, yet it is not the rage (coupled with utter grief) one would see forty years ago if someone shot-up a school.
Their message is measured, processed, and prepared. It is the weirdest, most bizarre, and otherworldly thing I have observed in decades.

[SaveFerris]

[but this kid is too well connected and is just too Johnny on the spot, conveniently]

Yep, he would have better chance odds at winning Powerball.

Just a little too convenient.

[kelly4c]

Did you see the one with a girl named Alexa Miednik? She states the class walked out of the school together and as they were walking she was actually speaking with Cruz, mentioned she joked to him that she’s surprised he wasn’t the one who did it (because of his being trouble maker in middle school.) Also mentioned hearing gunshots from a different part of the bldg after talking with him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1pGIjLfVB4

[blueplum]

he is most comfortable seeing the world through a lens. Which is why he wasn’t relating and can’t relate to the emotion of the schoolmates he interviewed while hiding from the shooter. He knows the issue is mental health, of his classmates and the shooter, even the shooter’s mom, but he’d rather not take a look inward at the community and how they made their schools less safe or the failure of local social safety nets, much less upset dad by speaking out against dad’s employer’s inaction. Becoming the lens and detaching from the person behind it can lead to some obscure and sterile behavior, such as taking a national bully pulpit against the totally uninvolved in pursuit of individual footlights - encouraged by his parents of course. I’d be worried about him.