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To: GovernmentShrinker

When you hear about a kid shooting another kid, single parent households appear most often (by my observations).

You may be able to cite a few cases of kids killing at school (very rare), but every other "child" violence statistic goes the other way. Most of them are inner-city kids with a single parent in the household, and a marginal parent, at that.

The boy who killed a 6 year-old girl in Flint, Michigan had taken his drug-dealing cousin's pimp gun while his single mother was riding the bus to her token "workfare" job.


17 posted on 01/24/2006 12:17:26 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: SJSAMPLE

Not necessarily. Look at all the cases of kids going to schools and intentionally killing people, most came from a two-parent household.
Most of these accidents that happen could have been avoided if the child had been taught basic gun safety.
We live in a rural area and gun safety is pretty much taught from the cradle here. We also have not had any accidental shootings in our county since this deer hunter had a seizure, feel from a stand and the gun accidentally discharged, hitting him.


20 posted on 01/24/2006 12:27:48 PM PST by chae (R.I.P. Eddie Guerrero He lied, he cheated, he stole my heart)
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To: SJSAMPLE

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.


25 posted on 01/24/2006 12:33:00 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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