Anyone saying this is being to harsh are out of your minds. What he said is beyond twisted and it doesn't matter if he meant it or not. It needs dealt with seriously. This country is too damn lenient as it is, its good to see some actual punishment.

Seems like he is just an oblivious kid who stupidly made a joke about taking out a bunch of kindergartners. He shouldn't be put in jail, but someone should tell him it's definitely not okay to even make jokes about that sort of thing, especially now. It can be hard to tell a joke from a serious threat through text on the internet alone, and with the government looking at basically everything anyone says on the internet, it is no wonder he ended uo in this predicament.

the only reason people have to take this so seriously is the mass proliferation of fire arms and toothless gun control laws.

It is an admission that the current slate of fire arm regulations are entirely ineffective because the assumption here by law enforcement is that this kid could easily have acquired a fire arm and killed a bunch of people without much of a problem. So now we are patting ourselves on the back for throwing kids in jail for making stupid jokes on facebook instead of looking at why this comment was so found to be so incredibly threatening in the first place that it requires him to be locked in jail, which is he could have easily done it if he wanted to and that is the the root of the problem. Do you think in Japan or Australia or Sweden they freak out about stuff like this? Probably not, because they don't experience mass murders over and over again like we do here because they take this issue seriously enough to effectively regulate the sale and ownership of fire arms. Last time I check none of those countries was a police state where the government watched your every move, that sounds more like 2nd amendment worshiping America.

GI you might want to add the info about him stating "lol, jk" after that. It does not change the fact that he was an idiot, but without that info it makes his comment sound worse than what it was.

Might be a bit overboard, but I like that they are at least taking these things seriously.  I hope he doesn't go to prison and ruin his life for something he said as a stupid teen. Maybe just house arrest like some others said would be best, or probation, or anything else.

If he's trolling, isn't he getting what he wants through all this media coverage? It's obvious that he's just an attention seeker with some major insecurities...

minority report much?

Wow... Yikessssss...

Hey Game Informer, you are supposed to capitalize Lieutenant...

Watch what you do, DOUBLE watch what you say.  And I tell my students this ALL THE TIME.  We live in a time when people do horrible things.  Want to say things in private, go for it.  But when you make it public, you open yourself up to this mess.

Wow. Way to go, kid.

This quote is rather inaccurate. The response was in regards to someone calling him f-ed up in the head to which he responded with "I think I'm going to..." followed by lol and jk. Clearly sarcasm, tasteless yes but making it very clear it was a "joke".

I can't believe how many people here are saying they are glad this kid might get ten years in jail for this. I'm not defending what he said in any way. It was beyond mind numbingly stupid and he should have known better. But to say this kid deserves ten years in jail for a stupid joke he put on facebook which he clearly meant as a joke are you kidding me? How far is too far? At what point are people going to wake up and realize how effed this country is. How many of you begging for this kid to go to jail have said something stupid in your life? I'm guessing about 100 percent. You think you should have gone to jail for it?

He should have thought this one through. While I know that he was just joking, this is just a sick joke that I don't think anybody finds funny. While prison probably shouldn't happen, because he didn't actually do anything, he shouldn't go unpunished. While I find a good joke very funny, this was just sick, and borderline satanic sounding, and this kid shouldn't have even thought about saying what he said.

If someone goes as far as writing murder threats, i think some actions should be taken. Hes not yelling empty threats under the emotions brought in a sports game (virtual or not), hes writing them down so everyone can see them. Years in prison is taking it WAY too far, but murder isn't something you joke about. At least, where i'm from, we don't joke about that.

Giving him a big fine, a couple dozens of hours community work and put his name on a list of people to keep an eye on after a psychological examination.

While he shouldn't be sent to jail...he kinda brought it upon himself.  I mean why do people think joking about extreme tragedies such as 'shooting up a school" is legitimately funny?  It's one thing to be angry tell someone off, it's another to put out ( even jokingly) that you're not right in the head.  Given that past threats that people put out were taken lightly and had serious repercussions, I'm not the least bit surprised that this was taken very seriously.  

I don't care how seriously they take it -- this kid's (admittedly stupid) comments don't amount to the classic "yelling fire in a theater" case that would make him liable for hate speech or danger speech. This kid's first amendment rights have just been violated, apparently by a Nanny State that has no sense of prudence or judgment.

he was just having a bad day at LoL, saw too many Defeated screens.

those were threats.

it was more like, cursing.

This is a tough situation, but I have to say this guy is certainly old enough to know better than to publicly state something like this, especially to someone he doesn't even know! Imagine what would happen if you said these things walking around in the mall or at a restaurant out loud to random people??? You would be going to jail. Freedom of speech goes out the window when you threaten the safety of others, joke or not. It is not like this was a random joke to a friend over the phone. He put it on a random person's facebook. 19 years old is FAR from being a "kid". He should be evaluated. Also we don't know if there were other incidents that authorities are aware of than just the 1 post that is publicly released in the media. If it ends up innocent he should get short sentence, or community service, and fines. Prob not 10 years.

I think he should be reprimended, but not with 10 years in prison!!! That's a little overkill