6Year Old Shoots Teacher!!!!

[piggynose]

Another gun crime! Shouldn't the parents be held accountable?

https://youtu.be/jU0LcvoyNlI

[fender62]

for some americans and i mean some, it's like a right of passage to handle guns, own them etc, very wild west mentality, my right erm
id say for the thousands, that right should have been stopped years ago, less your a farmer.

[douglas9401]

Right of passage is different from rite of passage which is what I think you meant, fender 62.

Unless you were talking about the school bus.

[tomus42]

What we need is more good six year olds with guns to take out the bad ones.

[Peter Pedant]

the school bus? I feel a song coming on

the wheels on the bus go round and round
and the guns on the bus go bang bang bang!

pretty well bound to be a hit.... haw haw haw

[Peter Pedant]

I wouldn’t think a six year old will stand trial in the US… but I don’t know.

well pretty well obviously below the age of criminal responsibility.
The kid was in custody and I hope the soche there were ensuring the child was appropriately treated

The police were talking more about 'treatment'
( write out 50 times "I must not shoot the teacher.")
rather than hollerin' "Hang the li'l piccanin right up high!"
Progress since 1865 indeed

One legal system just says " joovie hall until he behaves" which is better than youth detention - that is the only determination is that the child has to go into care

[piggynose]

It looks like all schools and educational places will have to install airport scanning security machines to stop or reduce this problem!

[piggynose]

This is the parents excuse! Are they being serious?


https://youtu.be/ySCcicGzgT8

[barry1010]

I can't watch YouTube, can you summarise?

[piggynose]

sorry barry. I´ll get back to you shortly, unless somebody else can step in.

[piggynose]

This is what was said:
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The family of a 6-year-old boy who shot and wounded his teacher in Virginia said Thursday that the child suffered from “an acute disability” and that one of his parents usually accompanied him in class but did not the week the shooting occurred.
“Our family has always been committed to responsible gun ownership and keeping firearms out of the reach of children," said the family, which was not identified. “The firearm our son accessed was secured.”
Regarding the disability, the family said the boy "was under a care plan at the school that included his mother or father attending school with him and accompanying him to class every day.”
The family said the week of the shooting “was the first week when we were not in class with him. We will regret our absence on this day for the rest of our lives.”

[barry1010]

Thanks, piggy. I will never understand the Americans' attitude to gun ownership and the parents haven't addressed how the child accessed the 'secured' gun.
I can't imagine what disabilities a six year old child would have that would require a parent to attend school with him. It can't be a physical disability as he managed without a parent.