Who was Asa Coon?:
We’re so close to bestowing the M-title on SuccessTech gunman Asa Coon but we’re not there yet. The Cleveland Plain Dealer has some more info on him and in the process, they try to get you to be sympathetic about him. We all know where you can find sympathy too. However, I have no sympathy for a kid who slapped around his own mother and talked about suicide.
What started the whole mess is that Coon got into an argument with another kid about the existence of God. Coon said he didn’t believe in or respect God and that he worshiped Marilyn Manson and flipped off the other kid. A fight ensued after school and Coon got his ass beat. Both kids were suspended but Coon couldn’t let it go…
“I’m going to get you,” he warned his tormentor. “I will get you.”
Of course, some kids are saying that Coon was “picked on”. Those two words will be used by the criminal apologists of the world to try to excuse the shooting of four people.
Not surprisingly Coon also told other kids that he planned to shoot up the school but as usual, no one took him seriously. Here’s another repetitive lesson from Uncle Trench kids. If someone is talking about shooting up the school don’t take the chance they’re “just joking”. Tell someone.
Coon has a history of violence and mental issues.
When he was 12, Asa was charged in Juvenile Court with domestic violence. His mother, Lori, had called the police and told them that Asa slapped her and called her a vulgar name. She had been trying to intervene in a fight between Asa and his twin sister Nicole.
Once in court, a magistrate ordered Asa to undergo psychological testing and follow the orders of doctors. The magistrate also ordered the family to undergo therapy together.
Asa immediately refused to obey probation rules. He threw the paperwork on the floor and charged out of the office, nearly knocking his mother to the ground.
During one of his stays in a government facility, he was prescribed Trazodone and Clonodine so we should be hearing from the anti-psychiatry Luddites who think these medications must have caused the shooting.
In 7th grade, he was suspended for trying to hurt another student.
He fooled a home detention officer into thinking he was getting better.
Last November, Asa had completed his counseling, anger management classes and community service. After five months without incident, he was released from probation.
Sounds like he was just biding his time.
Then the article goes on to detail how smart he was, and how special he was, and how he grew up in a rough neighborhood and a broken home. I’ve got three words for that. I DON’T CARE. None of that matters. The only thing that matters is that he shot four people because he was a selfish egotistical little twit.
The most messed up part is that he killed himself before being apprehended. If he would have been caught he probably would have gotten a slap on the wrist since he was a juvenile and nobody died.
But the question is going to come as it always does about how this could have been prevented. It’s simple really. Be better parents to your kids and take these kinds of threats seriously. That’s all there really is to it.