where did rol threaten to shoot anyone but themselves? the FBI is concerned with terrorist threats, ie. threats of violence against a civilian populace to coerce for some sort of ideology. i see someone desperate and alone lashing out (in a way i obviously don't condone). It's the same reason the average school shooters is explicitly not defined as a domestic terrorist.
the fact that people wanna use rol to jump in and say extreme shit they don't understand for upfrags (like what the fuck does the phrase "in some legal sense" even mean???) or even completely useless things like 'thoughts and prayer' equivalents tells me very few of you actually give a shit or even remembered who rol was until interesting drama came along. i've spent many hours of my time trying to talk people in this community who are not very popular out of suicide and it sucks hearing about the insanely fucked up shit they deal with from other tf2 people online on a regular basis. obviously none of them are perfect people, but they definitely don't deserve your callousness and uneducated virtue signalling.
i do want to say that i think funhaver is right that the average person who's just trying to enjoy the game can't on an individual level do much about this kind of thing and obviously isn't "at fault", but i think what dish and okya are getting at is that there is a palatable apathy against, and in some circles of the community, tacit approval, in the way those who are not considered socially standard are treated, and it is a contributing factor to results like this.
Again it's obvious that threats like this are not acceptable and that rol needs help of some kind, but I don't think this thread is going to accomplish anything except incite rol's chronic harassers, perhaps some new ones, and cement the persecution complex further. especially since I don't think rol has the money or irl support network to get the help you all seem to think will fall out of the sky for them.