Write a personal reflection on what YOU think about this situation.   The thing I am looking for is what YOUR thoughts are about the killer in the courtroom.  What about his shirt?  Should it be allowed? Why or Why not?  Make sure you create a claim and reflect on it throughout your response!  After you submit your response, APPROPRIATELY reply and collaborate with AT LEAST TWO other peers in class.  Just saying, "I agree or disagree" is not good enough.  Create a discussion based on your SUPPORTED opinions!
Abigail Hood
3/22/2013 02:49:35 am

I find it sickening how a person could kill three young teens who had done absolutely nothing wrong. I do not think his shirt should be allowed in the court room. The shirt shows that he really doesn't show any remorse what so ever. It is an insult to all three of the victims families. He smiles as if everything is funny. I don't think he would think it was funny if it was him who had gotten shot. He is one sick minded person, in nice words. I hope he rots in jail.

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Shelby Kelly
3/22/2013 02:51:35 am

I agree Abigail! i find it completely sickening.. his shirt is awful and they should've made him cover it up...

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taya.harsh
3/22/2013 02:54:49 am

i totally agree how could you live with yourself after knowing that you killed three people on purpose. it makes me sick just thinking about that someone could killl someone and not even feel sorry for what he did or the kids he killed.i do hope he dies. how could you think its funny that you just killed people and hurt familys that lost their children

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jenessa foreman
3/22/2013 03:38:59 am

abby you said that very well ,

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Brooke Coggin
3/22/2013 03:41:04 am

I agree with this a 100% this kid was very disrespectedful, and yes he really should rot in jail.

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Anastasia Fitzsimmons
3/28/2013 02:51:34 am

I agree with what you said about his shirt. Him wearing the shirt makes it like he's proud to be known as a killer. He's not upset that he hurt so many people and impacted so many lives (negatively).

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Shelby Kelly
3/22/2013 02:50:23 am

I think this kid is a monster. It makes me furious that he would even THINK to do this! I believe that he had to have so much hatred from something maybe in his childhood i don't know, because i just don't even understand how you can just kill somebody in cold blood like that. It most definitely infuriates me to think that he gets to LIVE in jail, and that he won't get a death sentence just like the one he gave to those kids. that's my opinion and i'm sticking to it.

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Abigail Hood
3/22/2013 02:53:09 am

I agree with your opinion, it could have been something in his childhood that could of set this kid off. It is wrong that he gets to live in prison, thats to nice of a punishment for a killer!

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taya.harsh
3/22/2013 02:57:55 am

i agree he is beyond a terrible person and he doesnt even realize the dustruction he has made in other peoples lives he doesnt even deserve to live for what he did. what on earth would drive someone to kille another human being its just so sick what he did.

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taya.harsh
3/22/2013 02:50:45 am

i think that it was terrible what he did. how was he even able to get a gun into the school. there is no reason for someone to kill other people for no reason and then not even feel guilty about it at all. then when he wore a shirt that said killer on it to the court shows that he didnt care that he just took lives of innocent kids. his reaction in the court room looks as if he was happy that he killed those children. i dont think he shuld ever be let out of prison. what he did was horrible and he doesnt even care.

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Shelby Kelly
3/22/2013 02:53:15 am

100% agreed! there was not a single reason he should've killed those kids, like they say in the interview, the kids were FRIENDS i guess! i mean how can you just kill your friend like that?!? it's infuriating isn't it?

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Nick Pollack
3/22/2013 02:52:02 am

I think TJ Lane deserves to rot in prison and I think he even deserves to die. He killed 3 innocent kids and he didn't even know them. During the trial he would smirk and laugh and he gave the middle finger to the victims families. He wore a shirt with the word killer on it, which is one of the sickest things i've ever seen before.

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Abby Hood
3/22/2013 02:55:45 am

I Agree! The smirking & laugh is completely rude. I dont understand how they dont give him a harsher punishment!

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Katie Sweitzer
3/22/2013 02:56:59 am

He knew the one kid because he gave Tj a ride home and that makes it even worse, he should've made him walk! It's crazy someone can be that heartless.

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dylan
3/22/2013 03:38:04 am

i know it was so messed up.

Kasidi Jacobs
3/22/2013 02:58:08 am

I agree 100% he must have some crazy mental disorder to do that... hes a psycho

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Conner Bates
3/22/2013 02:59:50 am

I couldn't agree more Nick he is a sick individual who dosent deserve to breath the same air as the rest of us.

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GATORWOOD
3/22/2013 03:38:26 am

Yeeeah! He's tryna be cool.

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dylan
3/22/2013 03:41:32 am

i know he needs to show so respect ! for what he did to those people

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David serrano
3/22/2013 03:41:57 am

i completely agree i find that fully disrespectful after he killed 3 innocent people to give the middle finger and wearing that shirt is messed definently after what he did

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Julia McMullen
3/24/2013 05:08:03 am

I agree that he deserves to rot and die in prison. What he did was horrible and evil, and he deserves the rest of his life to be terrible. I also agree that she shirt he wore was sickening, because he also wore a shirt like that the day he murdered the 3 kids.

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Ronnie Dawson III
4/21/2013 02:42:44 pm

Preeeaach!🙏 I hope the dude gets raped! Forget dying! This was definitely one of the sickest things I've ever seen before and he does deserve to die.

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Katie Sweitzer
3/22/2013 02:53:37 am

I think it's disgusting that he did those things to the victim's families in the court room. He already killed their kids and then he was that disrespectful. It's good that he's gonna be in prison for his whole life because he doesn't deserve to be anywhere else!

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Sarah Treen
3/22/2013 02:55:09 am

I agree. He shouldnt be aloud to breath. Hes a sicking man. Its terrible.

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nick pollack
3/22/2013 02:55:56 am

i agree, because he shouldn't have killed innocent kids and then disrespected the families by giving them the middle finger.

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Julia McMullen
3/24/2013 05:11:45 am

I agree that what he did to those families in the courtroom is disgusting. He made the situation even more worse than it already was by being disrespectful to the families of the kids he shot. I agree that it is good he is going to be in prison for the rest of his life, because he is a horrible person and deserves to die in a horrible place.

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Sarah Treen
3/22/2013 02:54:17 am

I dont see how someone could live with their self after they do something like that. And the fact he doesnt even care. Hes a terrible man and deserves every last second he breaths in prison. Hes a cruel man. He should not be able to wear that shirt in the room. I dont see how that is acceptable at all. This is terrible that he can take peoples lives like that. That trusted him. This shouldnt be aloud.

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Katie Sweitzer
3/22/2013 02:59:39 am

I agree, he's crazy! Good thing he'll never be let out of prison

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Kasidi Jacobs
3/22/2013 02:54:58 am

This kid isnt even a person in my eyes.. I just can't believe that he didn't care about what happened and that he thought it was a joke.. TJ Lane is a terrible person and he deserves all the punishments hes getting,

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Taylor Penix
3/22/2013 02:55:50 am

He needs his wiener cut off... >.>

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Marlena Roark
3/24/2013 02:34:05 pm

I totally agree with you He must have had a traumatic childhood because I couldn't see what else would drive someone to just be able to act as if no one can control him and to also be able to kill three other human beings.

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Taylor Penix
3/22/2013 02:55:04 am

I think someone has to have a serious mental disorder to kill someone let alone three people.. He really deserves whatever punishment he is given. He's a sick kid. I honestly think the only reason he's acting the way he does, he doesn't want to feel sadness and pain for what he does so he tries to act hard, and laugh to cover up his cries. Cause i don't believe anyone would really kill someone random and not feel remorse.

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Kasidi Jacobs
3/22/2013 02:56:28 am

It reminds me of tate from American Horror Story

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Kasidi Jacobs
3/22/2013 02:59:04 am


and he deserves whatever punishment he gets i agree he's like a psycho

Marlena Roark
3/24/2013 02:26:30 pm

I couldn't even imagine looking someone in the eyes and seeing the fear. How can you just decide that you are going to take away their future, their life?

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Conner Bates
3/22/2013 02:57:14 am

This is one of those times where the legal system shouldn't need to be involved as it was made to discuss crimes that involved people. This teen is not human, the fact that he would where a shirt that says "killer" on it to a courtroom where the grieving families were going to be is a terrible crime.Im just going to say No it should not be allowed and I think everyone would agree.

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Taylor Penix
3/22/2013 02:59:51 am

I think he's just trying to cover up his feelings by writing that on his shirt. He doesn't want to feel sadness and pain, so he tries to act hard. But i do agree with you.

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Marlena roark
3/24/2013 02:19:42 pm

I completely agree with you Conner I honestly don't understand how you can sit in the same room as their families and just smirk and act as if he hadn't taken their childer away from them

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Joe heffernan
3/22/2013 02:59:14 am

I think this moron is so low and should be torn up and beaten and everything imaginable thats bad while he lives the rest of his life in jail. He is the lowest human being in the world and does not deserve anything else but to sit in a cell for the rest of his life. Maybe and electric chair would be good too or now a lethal injection no, not even that thats to easy for him. Let him rot in jail forever.

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Conner Bates
3/22/2013 03:01:33 am

He is a horrible person I still think that roting n prison is to good for him. They should have let the familiy member have a few minutes alone with him.

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Ronnie Dawson III
4/21/2013 02:45:38 pm

Absolutely bro! I hope he gets raped in an electric chair by a guy wearing a shirt that says rapist on it! Dude is for sure the lowest person I've ever seen and deserves nothing but to rot in jail.

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Gabby
3/22/2013 02:59:30 am

This is jaw dropping! It'd already bad enough of the incident he did, but to wear that shirt! I imagined him getting jumped even at court, because that's what he deserved. Actually, this man deserves nothing! His actions should of resulted in more then prison! The sentence he should of received is a death sentence. His shirt should not of been aloud, I'm surprised that he continued to wear such a thing in the courtroom of the victims family! In my opinion I would of went at him no matter what because he got away with something that is not okay. Especially, in the courtroom of officers and family!

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FatBoy
3/22/2013 03:00:46 am

I think that T.J Lane should have to sit in a room with nothing in it just a padded wall painted white and that should be where he stays for the rest of his life. He should have to suffer like all of them people who suffered for the kids that he killed. I think he should have to sit there with no contact to the outside. He should be torched. I cant believe he had so much protection after what he did. In the room there should be paintings of the kids he killed on the wall so he never forgets. It will drive him crazy.

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Julia McMullen
3/24/2013 05:00:28 am

I think that T.J. Lane is a horrible, evil person. I find it repulsive that he killed three innocent people and doesn't even show any regret. The fact that T.J. wore the shirt that says "Killer" on it just like the day he committed murder, shows that he thinks he can do whatever he wants. T.J. was laughing at the families as they read about their children, and for that I hope he has a horrible time in prison. T.J. needs to be shown that he can't do anything he wants. I hope that T.J. dies a long, lonely death in prison. If he were to be killed now, he would just get an easy way out of it. I honestly think that he doesn't know what he's in for when he gets to prison. When he comes across men twice his size in prison, they are not going to see him as someone equal to them, they will just see him as someone they can mess with. T.J. Lane deserves to have a terrible time in prison for the rest of his life.

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Marlena Roark
3/24/2013 02:14:11 pm

How could anyone possibly look at someone in the face and be able to kill them? Then his behavior in the court room where he just sat there smiling as the victims families spoke as if he hasn't committed a horrific crime. Also how was it possible for him to sit in the court room with that shirt on? Why didn't anyone make him cover it back up?

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Anastasia Fitzsimmons
3/28/2013 02:54:44 am

I agree. How he acted was rude and disrespectful. Everyone makes mistakes, but it was obvious that TJ Lane didn't regret his. The shirt was wrong, too. It only reminded the families of what he is - a killer. It shouldn't have been allowed.

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Anastasia Fitzsimmons
3/28/2013 02:49:58 am

I think TJ Lane should be sentenced to execution. He took way the lives of 3 boys, and injured 3 others, and deserves the same to happen to him. TJ wasn't even phased by how many lives he ruined, and seemed proud to be known as a killer.

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Ronnie Dawson III
4/21/2013 02:39:45 pm

Legally, he can wear this shirt. If he couldn't, we would be going against the constitution, but there are unwritten laws that this shirt indefinitely breaks. How can you kill three innocent high school students, walk into the the courtroom with "killer" on your shirt, and then laugh and make the rude, nasty remarks he made at the parents of the students and feel no guilt whatsoever? He shouldn't even be allowed to call himself human. I hope he drops the soap is all Im sayin'.

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