Posted on 01/24/2006 12:01:35 PM PST by zaxxon
Kids who are raised in homes where gun-handling and safety is taught tend to not do crap like this.
He was raised in a nice house, too, by politically correct parents. Years ago, it was just shacks up the Booth Kelly road and we kids all had guns and would hunt in that area after school. I learned to dance the bop in that cafeteria where he let fly. We hear he used to have fun blowing up cows before this happened, and the parents would wring their hands. Maybe there was a hint he was NKR, (not quite right as we used to say.)
Never a problem with us kids and guns. We all had 'em. Plenty of fist fights, though.
"Kids who are raised in homes where gun-handling and safety is taught tend to not do crap like this."
Very true. That's why I said that parents should either lock their firearms up or teach their children. Looks like neither happened in this case.
I find this hard to believe. I live 2 miles away and happen to know that you can't even possess guns within 100 feet of a school, park, day care center, etc.
Shootings by teenage gangsters on the street are indeed mostly done by inner city kids from mother-only homes. But the shootings IN schools, I think are done by kids from a fairly representative array of family structures. The street thugs rarely attend school on a regular basis (if at all), and even when they do, they usually have to pass through metal detectors to get in.
Stories like these show the need for mandatory weapons training for children as young as eight.
Amazing how these obvious red flags get ignored. Same with Jeffrey Dahmer, who had fun decapitating the neighbor's dog, among his other amusements. I don't entirely blame the parents, though, since I've read of enough cases where parents tried to get their psycho kid locked up, and nobody would do it until AFTER the kid killed someone.
There was a kid in New Jersey a few years back who murdered a little Boy Scout who came to his home selling something for a fundraiser. Turns out the killer had previously been molested in a serious way by an older man he met online, who lured him off somewhere to meet. That fact was already known to authorities, when the parents went begging a court to haul their now seriously disturbed son off to residential treatment. They knew they were in over their heads, and tried to head off tragedy, but nobody would help until AFTER the kid committed a cold-blooded murder of another child.
I've seen Freepers do stuff just as foolish. They treat them as toys, not tools. They do tend to get mad when you point it out.
If you lived in Maryland, as I do, "interesting" would not be your choice of adjective to describe what is likely to result from this. The Maryland legislature is dominated by RATS with the worst sort of entitlement, hysterical, protectionist mentalities you could imagine. The "babies" will have to be protected, and the evil gun owners make, as always, an easy target. I fear bad times are on the horizon.
the parent(s) would do time in MN. (as they should), but I wonder why any one can lend a car to any fool and that's just fine.
(Point of order, the last 2 school shootings in MN involved guns obtained from parents who were cops so the "only cops should own guns" crap doesn't wash here.)
Father charged after boy shoots girl at day-care center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564353/posts
that boy's father should be locked up and place under the
jail ..due to his negligence with the gun in his home. And too, the boy was only doing what he has seen by his STUPID
father. His ignorance certainly paid off. He should definitely be charged for this act, not the son.
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