A 12 year old boy is being charged as an adult for a murder he committed at age 11. I understand that its the law that they charge anyone over 10 as adults for such violent crimes, but does anyone actually believe that a kid that age is capable of understanding the world?
Most kids his age are still trying to convince teachers that the dog ate their homework and get their parents to let them play outside after dark. Well-adjusted, properly supervised children are not shooting people with shotguns. Obviously, something went rather wrong there.
Furthermore, what kind of moron came up with the idea of a "youth model 20-gauge shotgun" and what kind of idiot thinks they should give one to their kid? What did they think he was going to do with it if not shoot something? Why would anyone that young need a shotgun in the first place. If they're too tiny to hold a real gun, they're too young to be using one.
This seems to be a failure of just about every level possible. Bad parenting raised a kid to do something horrible which is now going to let society do something else brutal. It's a plague on all their houses.
Cite your source:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/29/boy.homicide/index.html?hpt=T2
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