Tommy Jordan posted the video entitled, "Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen" on YouTube on Wednesday. By Friday, it was closing in on two million views. Jordan went public with the clip after daughter Hannah posted on Facebook an open letter to her parents griping about what most 16-year-olds would complain about at that age: having to do chores and not having the latest gadgets bought for her.
In the video, Jordan sits on a chair with a cigarette in hand and a printed-out copy of his daughter's posting in the other. He also has a .45 caliber holstered to his belt.
The angry dad starts off with a message to his daughter.
"Hannah, you were grounded for three months for doing something similar to this and I would've thought that with a father in IT for a living, you would have better sense than to do it again," he says.
He then reads his daughter's posting, entitled "To my parents."
"Since you want to hide it from everyone, I'm going to read for everyone now," Jordan says on the video.
"To my parents: I'm not your damn slave," he begins, before reading the profanity-laced diatribe.
(WARNING: Video below contains some of the aforementioned profanity and may not be appropriate for some viewers).
After finishing his reading, Jordan announces that he is "going to put a stop to this, and put a stop to it now." With that, he aims both the camera and his weapon at his daughter's laptop and opens fire.
"It's about to get a whole lot harder today. I'm gonna post this on your Facebook wall, so all those kids that thought it was cool for how rebellious you were can see what happens."
The video has caused a rift among those who viewed it over whether the punishment fit the crime.
"I find your reaction to your daughter's alleged self-entitlement colored by ungoverned emotions, of which it is the parent's responsibility to keep at bay, and a profound misunderstanding of punishment," posted one visitor to Jordan's Facebook page.
But another applauds the angry computer shooter.
"Sir, you did awesome... and for those that think this was something of another world...they can get over it... you continue to be a great dad...and make sure your daughter sees all these comments of how MANY parents feel the same way about it as you...KUDOS TOMMY!!!," commented another visitor.
After the video went viral and Jordan was besieged by requests for interviews, Jordan said he'd done enough talking.
"Never again in my entire life will I ever do anything that garnishes (sic) this much attention, both positive and negative. I really wished we'd been prepared or something," he wrote on his Facebook profile Friday.
"Never again will I have the opportunity to speak to so many people about anything...and instead I'm sitting here stupefied."
Reader Comments
I can understand the frustration this guy might feel. However, seems to me he resorted to a spoiled child tirade because of hurt feelings. I am not a parent by choice but I am a child of authoritarian parents and from my perspective if there was already a rift in the relationship with his daughter then his actions may well have driven that relationship of the cliff. Not hard to see why she might act this way.
although we don't know all the details... if this family has a "cleaning lady"/maid and this teen is asked to do her own laundry and load the dishwasher, pour coffee she obviously is not living poor or "in need" . But to state that " I hate to see the day that you need someone to wipe your ass, don't call me" in reference to her parents? All I can say is that her 18th b-day won't come soon enough... put her out and change the locks.. this is one we will see in the papers when she and her BF shoots her parents in their sleep.... self entitled little c***
The eight rounds he put into her lap-top should have been saved for self defense...... from her!!
jeez people are sick these days..
To me, the girl acted according to what can be expected from her age, but not the father.
A great use for a gun. Shoot the beast, not the child. We can free ourselves today if we all choose to do the same act. Take the television with it. The internet would serve better as a research tool. Take the social and the consumerism out.
Want to know what happens next... This has all the ingredients of what is wrong with the modern family.