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Post by minx on Jan 8, 2023 13:16:37 GMT -5
I have no idea what category to place a story about a 6yo kid shooting his teacher cause he was pissed at her.
And I have no idea what do with a story that mentions that the 6yo can't be charged with a crime for his actions.
And I have zero clue where to place a story about a 6yo boy who shoots his teacher because he's pissed and can't be charged for his actions that has absolutely no mention of the kid's parents.
Cause there's no way in hell that kid went into a gun store and bought that handgun for himself.
I just hope that his teacher makes a full physical recovery. And that the state pays for all the mental health care she'll need to recover from this.
Otherwise, thoughts and prayers to them all.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jan 8, 2023 16:52:39 GMT -5
Place it under-
Product of his Environment
?
I'm not sure which is more disturbing; That someone made it possible for him to get the weapon or that he knew what he was going to do with it.
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Post by k9krap on Jan 9, 2023 7:09:13 GMT -5
Think of the kids that witnessed it! One mother said her son is having nightmares.
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Post by minx on Jan 9, 2023 9:48:56 GMT -5
Pam, I do think of those kids, and I hope they end up less fucked-up than the kids at Uvalde who had to watch (and listen) to their friends and classmates die, then find out that the police sat on their asses and did nothing.
And John, agreed.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jan 9, 2023 13:04:46 GMT -5
I do googles news. On the googles news search bar I entered "6 year old shoots....." the results were a profoundly sad commentary on the state of today's society.
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Post by k9krap on Jan 9, 2023 22:29:27 GMT -5
From what I’ve read about the teacher, she is a hero!
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Post by minx on Jan 10, 2023 11:34:59 GMT -5
She is a total hero - evacuating the classroom while she had been shot in the chest and then making sure they're okay.
Meanwhile, gun was purchased legally by mom - what a shocker.
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Post by bobathon on Jan 11, 2023 16:26:35 GMT -5
Where was the good 6 year old with a gun to take down the shooter?
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Post by k9krap on Jan 11, 2023 22:47:24 GMT -5
Exactly!
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jan 12, 2023 17:14:35 GMT -5
Ridiculousness has it's attractors so I'm sure someone is training up their 5 year old to be that "good one with a gun"..... IN FACT, I was at the Food Lion a few months back and as I was finishing loading the stuff in the car, a man with a Trump hat offered to take my cart. He was strapped (open carry). His kid, about that age, also wearing a Trump hat and.............. I can NOT make this shit up...........
wait for it........
.......the kid had a toy gun on his belt.
I literally had to stand there for a minute, speechless.
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Post by minx on Jan 12, 2023 18:00:20 GMT -5
JFC. Although I've been assured by our revered governor that if the school had a student resource officer, this never would have happened. And since he's an expert, I'm sure he's right. So let's advocate for an armed resource officer to frisk every kid and check their backpacks as they enter the building - cause that will keep everyone safe, right?
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Post by bobathon on Jan 12, 2023 19:51:19 GMT -5
Fascists gonna fascist.
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Post by minx on Jan 13, 2023 15:41:16 GMT -5
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jan 13, 2023 16:49:54 GMT -5
An inside job? Left wing conspiracy?
For the second time in this very thread I kid you not-
Sarah Motherfucking Huckabee got elected Governor of Arkansas and today was my first of hearing about it. Guess what her first executive order was? A: To BAN the word Latinx from all government documentation. Correct me if I'm wrong but if this is what an elected official decrees on Day One, then we are in for some change you might want to brace yourselves for.
The tide has not turned.
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Post by k9krap on Jan 13, 2023 22:49:24 GMT -5
But did they check his pants?
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Post by minx on Jan 15, 2023 15:44:55 GMT -5
Missouri's first order of business was to pass a rule saying all female legislators had to make sure their arms were fully covered while on the floor of the chamber. For decorum.
Jesus has no more tears to weep.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jan 15, 2023 16:59:04 GMT -5
Used to be I would've called bullshit but the times they are a changin.
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Post by k9krap on Jan 15, 2023 21:52:40 GMT -5
GOP wants the 1950s back.
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Post by bobathon on Jan 16, 2023 7:19:20 GMT -5
Y'all Qaeda, the American Taliban. They should just say you can have a burka, a hijab, or that stylish Gileadwear.
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Post by minx on Jan 20, 2023 11:00:56 GMT -5
Parents say the gun was on the top shelf of a closet and had a trigger lock installed. They also said the kid was disabled and they had been working with the school and teacher.
But, part of the intervention was that a parent had to be in school with the kid every day. The day the teacher got shot was the first day they didn't have to escort him. And the statement released by the parents certainly expresses a lot of anguish for the teacher and the school.
Assuming the parents are being honest, it makes one wonder what is wrong with this poor kid, and if anything can be done to help him.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jan 20, 2023 11:31:25 GMT -5
A trigger lock is only as good as where you keep the key. They are trying to cover their asses from dropping a ball that could not be dropped. He needed to be institutionalized if he was a threat to the public. He certainly will be now.
The larger question remains- How does a child of that age attain the awareness of wanting to make someone dead, having the knowledge and understanding to conspire, plan, and see it through? That goes so far beyond my comprehension it's just... yeah.
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Post by minx on Jan 20, 2023 16:08:48 GMT -5
I seriously think that something didn't develop correctly in that kid's brain. When the kids were little, I worked for a pediatrician. One of our patients was a kid who was adopted from Romania. She had some sort of attachment disorder (I forget what it was called), but in terms of violent thoughts and tendencies, it sounds similar to this kid. I talked to her mom one day and what they were going through was horrifying - her other kids (there were 2) had to lock themselves in their rooms at night with a deadbolt to make sure kid 3 didn't come in and attack them in their sleep was the biggest thing I remember.
She was trying to get the kid treatment and was banging on every known door, with limited results. When I talked to her, she was saying she was going to have to turn her over to the state - just very, very sad.
So I'm wondering if this kid has something similar, where his ability to understand any type of empathy just never developed and violence took its place.
But yeah, I'm wondering how a 6yo got the trigger lock off. And why mom/dad thought it was a good idea to store the gun loaded.
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Post by bobathon on Jan 21, 2023 2:46:10 GMT -5
How does a child of that age attain the awareness of wanting to make someone dead, having the knowledge and understanding to conspire, plan, and see it through? That goes so far beyond my comprehension it's just... yeah. Do we know that this 6 year old understands death? Or does he see guns used on tv shows to solve whatever bugs a protagonist? Simple point and click problem solving, deeper thinking not required.
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Post by k9krap on Jan 21, 2023 6:43:23 GMT -5
Plus, video games. They give you extra lives. No big deal!
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jan 21, 2023 9:45:41 GMT -5
What we do know is he was already on the radar and still managed to get the weapon into the school and shoot the teacher. So he did in fact have motive and a plan to kill. Whether he understood death or not is only a small part of the equation in terms of the actual events. None of us knows shit about what was/is going on in his head, let alone our own half the time.
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Post by k9krap on Jan 21, 2023 10:26:46 GMT -5
I was just reading an update. He threatened to burn a teacher in the recent past. This child has no business being in a school with other children.
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Post by bobathon on Jan 21, 2023 10:42:14 GMT -5
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Post by minx on Jan 22, 2023 14:04:26 GMT -5
He was just an Excitable Boy
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Post by k9krap on Jan 23, 2023 1:22:07 GMT -5
Psychotic.
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Post by bobathon on Jan 23, 2023 3:21:57 GMT -5
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