To be fair would you believe a 15 year old girl saying i Will shoot up the school when 95% of the school shooters are male and at least 17-18?
You would chuck it under attention whoring because lol women.
I'm old so my opinion doesn't count - but yeah I would believe it.
It's basically fedposting but significantly worse and it is people's civic duty (I know that sounds gay) to instantly report shit like this.
I assume the panic we've seen from the gay Columbine themed polycule surrounding this means people didn't believe it would actually happen (or maybe didn't even know). I think if they didn't believe then it may just be because they're young.
But in all seriousness if you're online and have people join friend groups or you're a new person in one and people are involved in fedposting, planning school shooting/terrorism/murder, swatting, internet crime, CP and a long list of other things you should either excise the problem person from the group permanently (if as you suggest they're just doing it for attention, then you cut off their attention), report them to the police/their friends/parents/whatever, or leave the group yourself.
I know when I say "report them to the police" people may not like the idea of that but people get trapped in their little insular online bubbles and people don't tell them their behavior is totally wrong and it's how shit like this can happen in the first place (it's still unclear of what exactly happened here though).
And there's two categories of things I described there which sometimes cross over:
- Fedposting/illegal stuff - you may end up being a party to serious criminal activity and fuck up your entire life and future
- Murder/crime - you may end up fucking up your entire life and future due to criminal charges and you may also end up with significant moral baggage because you were the person who could've stopped some shit like this and you didn't. Or even worse than that you actively engaged and promoted it happening.
Regardless. If you see someone you care about going down a rabbit hole of some of the stuff above then if you're a good friend you will do your best to steer them out of that hole and either try to get them help or report them to prevent something bad happening to innocent people.