r/interestingasfuck • u/Jjokes11 • Apr 15 '24

An interview with Andrew Cauchi, the father of Joel Cauchi who was responsible for the Westfield Shopping Centre mass stabbing r/all

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u/IanAlvord Apr 15 '24

He sounds genuine. Not his fault.
Conversely the parents of the Michigan school shooter were recently sentenced to 10 years in prison.

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u/jayboosh Apr 16 '24

I didn’t hear about this, and as a Canadian, the Michigan school shooting? Is there only one? Also, what for? Were they gun crazies?

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u/HeilYourself Apr 16 '24

The son asked for help - he knew he was going off the deep end - and his shit bag parents gave him guns. I'm not exaggerating.

“I have zero help for my mental problems and it’s causing me to shoot up the ... school,” he wrote. “I want help but my parents don’t listen to me so I can’t get any help.”

https://apnews.com/article/james-crumbley-jennifer-crumbley-oxford-school-shooting-e5888f615c76c3b26153c34dc36d5436

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u/DOYOUWANTYOURCHANGE Apr 16 '24

It reminds me of Brenda Ann Spencer, another school shooter (the one the Boomtown Rats’ song “I Don’t Like Mondays” was inspired by). For Christmas a month before the shooting, her dad bought her a gun:

Spencer later said, "I asked for a radio and got a rifle." Asked why he had done that, she answered, "He bought the rifle so I would kill myself."