guns at school
Guns at schools are very, very scary. Sheer cold-sweaty terror is the feeling I imagine I would feel if someone brought a gun to my child's school. If one of my children had been at Las Plumas that day I'm sure I would have been sick with terror and that would have probably easily become anger at anything handy. The school administrators, law enforcement, the student with the gun.
For some reason, my mind keeps going back to the boy with the gun. I've read in the paper that he is to be charged as an adult. That seems so wrong. Even though what he did was terrifying and shocking, I still think that boy is still just a boy. A boy who's moved around a lot lately, maybe making it hard to make or keep friends. A boy who has had a couple of homes with a couple of different parents lately. Maybe a boy who's angry about how the world has been treating him. Sounds like he found a little comfort with a girl in Oroville for a while. I bet she got tired of trying to heal all of his wounds and finally said, enough is enough. Good for her, she's a strong girl who knows herself and is willing to speak up for her own needs. But the boy was so sad when she decided this. Maybe she found it easier to say that she had another boyfriend, maybe she really did. So the boy's sadness turned to anger, fueled by all the anger he already had pent up inside. And he got a gun and took it to school.
Thank heavens everything turned out all right. Two other self-possessed young ladies with courage to spare evidently knew the right words to say, the right things to do. And they brought everyone out unharmed, including the boy with the gun. Let's send these two young ladies to Iraq, sounds like they've got what it takes to handle that sorry mess. But where was I...yes, the boy with the gun.
Now we have a problem, what to do with the boy who had a gun? Well, I say try him as a juvenile for possession of a weapon on school property and terrorist threats. That seems about right. Then lets put him on probation, get him some good counseling and see what we can do about redeeming that troubled soul. Just like his friends want us to do, or they wouldn't have saved him.
Comments
This article has good ententions but GUNS don't kill people! PEOPLE "KILL" PEOPLE! If not a gun it would be a knife, a bomb,a club or poison,overdose maybe beat them to death or hang the victim as seen in many jail cells, video games, on TY and in the Movies. Violence is everywhere. This boy is a product of our own failures! The product of what he sees on the media day in and day out. The garbage that we as adults alow our children to view on vidio games, TV,books, and magazines is apalling and at the most degrading to out societies youths. All in the name of PROFIT! We all look the other way. As society blames the child for our own failures. Whos little boy or girl will be next one to step over this line...
Posted by: carol davis | October 7, 2007 09:54 PM
I wonder how the boy got the gun? Where was it that he could just simple take it to school? Can anyone take a gun to school or is it just for some? I know that people kill people but it might be a different story if people could not stand off a ways and pull a trigger but had to ...I don't know ... perhaps get a little dirty with a knife or fists or ... I wonder, since the boy was to young to own a gun, there had to be some adult who owned it. Where is that persons responsibility? It makes a person think that if their gun owner was held accountable for the actions of the gun, perhaps the gun owner would keep better track of their gun. Is that a form of gun control? That would be a good start.
Posted by: Dan Franden | October 8, 2007 08:55 PM