Due to the easy access to weapons in the United States of America, mass shootings inside schools are the daily bread, since so far this 2022 there have been at least 356 registered, in which more Two thousand people have been injured and just over 200 have lost their lives.
For this reason, in his eagerness to eradicate the massacres, Joe Biden, the country’s president in North America, announced last June that the United States Senate and House of Representatives approved a gun control bill.
However, given the situation, not only the American government must do its part, but also parents have to be aware of their children. Based on this, the case of a mother who discovered that her son was planning a mass shooting at her school, she decided to denounce him and hand him over to the authorities, was recently revealed.
The name of the woman who prevented a tragedy is Nichole Schubert, a native of the state of Oklahoma, United States, who one day in 2019 was cleaning her home when she suddenly found her son’s diary, in which he read that he planned to kill everyone at home, then attack everyone at Washington High School, where the 17-year-old was in his senior year.
Realizing the terrible massacre that her son described in that notebook, despite the pain of the situation, Nichole knew that she had to do something to prevent that from happening, so she immediately notified the authorities and handed over her son. .
In a recent interview with TJ Holmes for the news good morning americathe woman spoke of how difficult the experience of handing her son over to the police was, assuring that it is something that still hurts her a lot, but that in her instinct to protect her son, she thought that he would be much safer in jail .
It wasn’t just about him and me at the time, it was about a whole school: hundreds of people, hundreds of children, children. I think I saved lives.
– Nichole Schubert
To this day, Nichole assures that she does not regret having denounced her son, who has always said that what he wrote was a fantasy and that they were not real plans. Still, he was arrested and pleaded guilty to one felony count of threatening to bomb or damage property.
Since that event, Nichole has been in charge of sharing her story with other moms, so that other women like her can prevent a tragedy in a school or anywhere else, since there are always warning signs and changes in behavior. of the guys who can be detected in time.
After serving his sentence and rehabilitating, Nichole’s son is now free, working, in the process of entering university and without getting into any trouble with the authorities.