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Ok, an 12 year old boy is shot dead and everyone in Texas cheers. Happy now?
He was 15. Hardly a child.
Ok, an 12 year old boy is shot dead and everyone in Texas cheers. Happy now?
Why is it so important to you that this person be deemed a man? Does his being a man mean something in this situation?Looks like a man to me.
Something I think may be just as disturbing, suppose the altercation with the other student lead to him contemplating suicide. And since most children from these days and times know police shoot to kill, all he would have to do is point something at them. (something dark colored it doesn't even have to be a gun!?!)
Why is it so important to you that this person be deemed a man? Does his being a man mean something in this situation?
Well, I for one feel terrible for the boy's family and for the cops involved. I can't imagine having to live with knowing that a teenager was killed brandishing what turned out to be a pellet gun.
It was not the fault of the police. They did was they were trained to do, what they had to do. Nonetheless, this is still going to traumatize the crap out of them, and all the kids in that school who heard/saw it happen.
A tragedy caused by the utter stupidity and volitility of a childish teenaged brain. Damn.
Just like Michael Moore. Turning a sad issue that isn't about GUNS into a political platform. The fact is this wasn't a GUN issue. It was the issue of crappy and irresponsible parenting, of poor school management in not paying attention to a child in distress, and 100 other sad issues (and perhaps one of SAFE ownership before it is ever an issue of guns).
I feel horrible for the officers who now have to question themselves for the rest of their lives about this. The fact is that they did have to defend their life, and I cannot fault them for that. It is easy to judge a situation like this from the outside, especially when you cannot access the emotion of the situation when it happens to you as a person.
That. Violence in US schools has been on a steady decline since the early 90s. However you can't pretend to be tough on crime unless you blow every incident out of proportion. Also, how are people going to complain and moan about the fatherless welfare class if they don't make them out to be little monsters ready to shoot the good hearted children of conservatives parents?
Youth Violence Project - National Statistics
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I have no idea if these look realistic to someone who knows firearms...but these are all "realistic blowback airpistols." Maybe that's the problem. How is anyone, in split second decision-making timeframes, supposed to know the difference?
Whatever happened ot the ruling that required all toy firearms to be brightly colored? Why aren't airsoft and so on following those guidelines?
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I have no idea if these look realistic to someone who knows firearms...but these are all "realistic blowback airpistols." Maybe that's the problem. How is anyone, in split second decision-making timeframes, supposed to know the difference?
You have an ugly soul. I begin to feel sorry for you.Right you are...an 8 year old is shot dead. 3 cheers for Texas, the most gun happy State in the Union. Can you imagine if that boy had lived...the horror.
THe NRA should give that kids Dad a medal for teaching his youngsters about guns at an early age.
Or more likely suicide by cop.Good god you guys - who knows! Maybe he found it and thought it was cool, maybe he was being bullied and thought he was going to defend himself . . . we have no clue and I think it serve no purpose right now to assume we know anything.
Shoot to maim?Wow - all I feel is sad. I have no strong opinion. Just sad.
Sad a child can get ahold of a weapon so easily.
Sad no one knew he had it.
Sad he took it to school - sad he did anything.
Sad no one stopped it before it ended in a tragic death.
Sad that everyone was so terrified - no doubt imagining Columbine and other tragedies while they waited without knowing
Sad that they didn't just shoot to disarm or maim - but to kill.
Sad that this type of situation is becoming more common place and the killing of armed children is actually occurring more frequent in our world.
We're there warning signs - notions - thoughts - threats? Anything before this happened?
Yea. The police did what was reasonable. Suicide by cop is always traumatic for the cop and for the family. I am sorry he is dead. Sometimes we cause bad things to happen to us.Well, I for one feel terrible for the boy's family and for the cops involved. I can't imagine having to live with knowing that a teenager was killed brandishing what turned out to be a pellet gun.
It was not the fault of the police. They did was they were trained to do, what they had to do. Nonetheless, this is still going to traumatize the crap out of them, and all the kids in that school who heard/saw it happen.
A tragedy caused by the utter stupidity and volitility of a childish teenaged brain. Damn.