So you are a member of the thought police now? How in the **** do you know what he was "thinking?" All we've heard so far is the charges being brought by a police department acting supposedly and solely on the accusations of another child. That my friend is called, "HEARSAY." If owning books is a sign of a person's intent then I venture to say that all educated people with extensive libraries are in some serious trouble if people like you are allowed to claim that you know what is on their mind based upon the books that are on their shelves. As I said, start a book burning party and start with the Bible. After all those of us that read it are evil, murderous, life loving haters of all that is leftist.
This boy needs treatment to repair all the psychological damage he sustained attending the public school.
A 9mm rifle without ammo is harmless, and toy guns even more so. Punishing him is not going to help at all.
I think the focus should be more on the bullying that helped to create this extreme situation. If the bullies were the school athletes and other 'favorites', this boy knew he'd not be getting any justice.
Now the system is going to come after him and his parents. Maybe she got the gun for him because some of those bullies were still coming around, threatening and harassing them. Call the police? If the bullies are favorites, the police will do nothing. That's not something that's going to be publicized. If this boy is guilty, his bullies should likewise be charged with terroristic threatening.
Cho, the Virginia Tech killer, was unmercifully bullied and he unfortunately took "justice" into his own hands. If a school cannot or will not provide a safe environment for all their students, parents need to demand a "Bully Voucher" and take it out of the school's financial butt to pay to educate their child elsewhere or pay them to homeschool.
Let's see how quick the bullying would stop the instant it gets out that the school will lose money and get a black mark on their No Child Left Behind report card.