Mother Who Threatened To Bring Loaded Guns To A School In Protest Of Mask Mandates Has Been Charged

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The Luray Police Department announced that 42-year-old Amelia King would be charged with oral threat on school property. King was captured Thursday on a video broadcast for the Page County Public Schools school board, which was considering a vote on mandating masks for students, stating, “My children will not come to school on Monday with a mask on … I will bring every single gun loaded and ready.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stefficao/virginia-mother-loaded-gun-school-threat-charged

[Deuxcents]

1. That's a good start..

[Sogo]

2. After all, maybe her kids will have learned something from Mom's example.

...

[TeslaNova]

3. Released on a $5000 bond

I got caught with an ounce of weed years ago and my bond was 10k.

[vlyons]

4. Why are RWNJs like her so incredibly stupid?

My word, she said it on video! There's a record, and unless she wants to claim it was her long lost evil twin sister, she will be convicted. Not in a million years would I speak such threat, and certainly not on video. And if the video had not been present, there were still witnesses who heard her say it.

I just don't get how people that can be so stupid.

[PJMcK]

6. Right?!

These people expose themselves unwittingly and ignorantly.

They're pathetic. They're also un-American.

[jayschool2013]

15. It's their numbingly ignorant take on the Second Amendment

Not only does it allow them to believe they can own any kind of weapon imaginable, they believe that it allows them to threaten people with any kind of weapon imaginable. Remember "Second Amendment remedies"?

[yardwork]

19. She feels entitled to say anything she wants.

[Poiuyt]

23. Stupid and loud

[GoodRaisin]

33. Well, they believe all this stupid shit, and then some of those can't control their

emotions, and end up blurting out all their stupid shit.

[oasis]

5. Bring the hammer down on every one of these nuts.

[brush]

7. She needs a minder. Her husband shouldn't let her out in public...

by herself...unless he's also a gun humping cray-cray too...which is probably the case.

[RainCaster]

8. They own a gun shop together

[brush]

9. 'nuff said.

[KS Toronado]

10. I was just going to suggest that the Judge

should seize all her weapons until she proves she's no longer a threat to society.
But wow that gets interesting with them owning a gun shop.
Board it up, take away the keys.

[OldBaldy1701E]

12. Oh, seize them anyway.

AND, board it up and take away the keys. I am sorry, regardless of my ignorance of the law, she made a blatant threat towards a school and the people within, I don't care that she did not specify targets. As anyone familiar with weapons can tell you, the thing is dangerous the moment a hand picks it up. Her irresponsible tirade should warrant removal of her children and a visit to her husband, since it is hard to believe that he does not share some level of her arrogance and/or entitlement (which also may indicate an unsafe environment for children). This crap needs to be nipped in the bud with very sharp clippers. Now.

[KS Toronado]

28. I agree 100%

[Orrex]

14. My job takes me into a fair number of gun shops, alas

Spread over a dozen counties in 2 states. Every single one of them is palpably hard-right, anti-Biden, and definitely anti-mask/anti-vax.

[yardwork]

20. So she knew exactly what she was saying.

She knew exactly what she was doing.

[littlemissmartypants]

21. So, think of all of the free advertising she's generated with her stupidity.

So, maybe she's crazy like a fox, though I doubt it. More likely it's a severe case of affluenza.

Either way, it's her stupidity and disregard for the rule of law that assures she now has her consequence firmly attached to her backside.

[sl8]

26. According to this, the husband used to own a gun shop:

Last edited Tue Jan 25, 2022, 11:18 PM - Edit history (1)

https://pagevalleynews.com/luray-parent-charged-after-threatening-statement-at-school-board-meeting/

[RainCaster]

29. That looks more up to date than what I'd seen.

Thanks for the update

[monkeyman1]

11. reminds me of " bang-bang-Barbie "!

[calimary]

13. Good!!! WELL deserved!!!

Lock her up. For the sake of, and in the interest of, public safety!

[madinmaryland]

16. Is that a felony? They need to have all of their guns grabbed by the gubmint.

[BeckyDem]

17. No kidding, I am grateful. These thugs are often validated and in this case, this one lost.

+1

[LudwigPastorius]

18. Why wasn't she charged with assault?

...or, making a terrorist threat?

A class 1 misdemeanor charge doesn't seem adequate for threatening to shoot up a school.

Oh, I guess Karen was white, so she couldn't possibly be a terrorist.

[onenote]

30. Assault carries the same Class 1 misdemeanor penalty

as the crime with which she was charged.
And what she did doesn't meet the definition of assault, which requires a threat of imminent harm.

[Corgigal]

22. Social services

need to check on the kids too. I hate to wish that on anyone, but someone needs to make sure she isn’t screwing up their brains.

[Emile]

24. Have they confiscated all her guns, after all she did threaten another school shooting?

[UTUSN]

25. Should be "terroristic threat." And why did the presiding officer at the meeting say "3 minutes" to

shut her down instead of saying, "Stop. Calling security (or law enforcement) now"?

[onenote]

31. Not a terroristic threat under Virginia law.

Indeed, under Virginia law, the only offense with which she could be charged is the offense with which she was charged.

[Emile]

27. Not only should they take her guns, they should take away her children! Just a

matter of time one of her brainwashed kids will show up at school with a loaded AR 15. Imagine what the cops would have done if she would have been a black mother or even worse a Muslim!

[Wingus Dingus]

32. Unhinged lunatic who makes terroristic threats against

a school--$5000 bond? Seriously? Should I just be glad KrazyAss Karen is being charged at all, I guess?

[Trueblue1968]

34. 10 YEARS IN THE SLAMMER. i am sick and tired of wrist slap sentences

[onenote]

35. Under Virginia law, she only faces 1 year in prison

The maximum penalty for the Class 1 misdemeanor she is charged with committing. There is no other provision in Virginia law that would support a case against her.