Teenager Arrested For Posting Columbine-Related Eminem Lyrics On Instagram, Guns Found In His Home

The height of Eminem’s popularity came at a time when the internet outrage machine was in it’s infantile stages. He could rap about murdering the mother of his daughter and dumping her body in a lake without overwhelming backlash, simply because the online infrastructure had yet to be constructed.

Today, with the omnipresence of social media outlets, everyone has a platform to bitch and moan and seemingly trivial incidents could snowball into national disasters.

But then there are incidents that deserve a deeper investigation.

Like a 15-year-old Fresno, California boy posted lyrics to Eminem’s song “I’m Back” on Instagram, which referenced  the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, where 12 students and one teacher were killed by two of its own students.

The specific lyrics posted were as follows:

“I take seven kids from Columbine, stand ’em all in a line, add an AK-47, a revolver, a nine, a MAC-11 and it oughtta solve the problem of mine. And that’s a whole school of bullies shot up all at one time. I’m just like Shady and just as crazy as the world was over this whole Y2K thing.”

Officials from San Joaquin High School notified police and classes were canceled on Tuesday for precautionary measures.

Upon search of the boy’s home, police found guns, ammunition, and a bulletproof vest, which were said to be part of an attack the boy was plotting at the school.

The student is being held at juvenile detention center and his family is claiming that the boy’s Instagram account had been hacked. Haven’t heard that one before.

Props to school officials and authorities for stomping out a potential shit storm.

[h/t Complex]

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Matt’s love of writing was born during a sixth grade assembly when it was announced that his essay titled “Why Drugs Are Bad” had taken first prize in D.A.R.E.’s grade-wide contest. The anti-drug people gave him a $50 savings bond for his brave contribution to crime-fighting, and upon the bond’s maturity 10 years later, he used it to buy his very first bag of marijuana.