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Yes. First off, it is plain foolishness to introduce a 15 yr-old child to firearms by giving them a complex gun like that Sig, and they were even more foolish to just hand it over to him without extensive training. I cannot imagine what they were thinking. They deserve to share in the punishment for the horrendous crime that their child committed under their noses.

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No. We’re back to what I said earlier. The parents didn’t pull the trigger, nor did the school.

Execute him and be done with it.

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There is nothing “complex” about that pistol.

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Because I speak English.

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Glad to hear you are ok. Maybe you were fortunate.I don’t know your situation.

  • great and understanding parents
  • no mental illness
  • no bullying

Not every child will have that.

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The parents essentially told their kid “Here’s a gun. Go have fun.” The Community need for revenge is justified.

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Not to you and me, but as a child’s first gun, it most certainly is. Shooting fundamentals should be taught on a simple single shot or bolt action rifle and/or a revolver, preferably a single action.

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Perhaps the problem is there are a lot more people, so there are a lot more crazy or mean people.

I think there’s a level of complexity here that’s being ignored.

There’s not “a” problem, there are problems.

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He lives in a rural area…not along side meth users…(If i understood him correctly)

It was a bit of sarcasm. He is also half black. I was pointing out, in my area allows me to not need to own a firearm. It could be argued zip codes and skin color has a lot to do with the safety and quality of living there.

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My dad never owned a gun. While he did teach me personal responsibility, I learned about guns, starting at about age 11 or 12, from my older brother. I was shooting 12 gauge shotguns and 44 magnums by the time I was a 90 pound 13 year older.

And why would you assume that I was not bullied? I’d bet that most 90 pound 13 yr-olds were bullied in those days. It was part of growing up.

For that matter, who’s to say I had no mental illness? There wasn’t anyone looking for it back then.

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Thanks for the honest answer Samm. :+1:

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I disagree…arming a child is negligent in my opinion.

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It remains to be seen if that is what happened. You are free to disagree.

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Would it have been better if he had been 16, taken his car and run it through band practice in the parking lot?

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Hey I learned that teachers need to mind there business and not read search history of kids. They are not required to protect the kids

Right @WuWei?

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They have no business reading the search histories of students.

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Would the 4 kids still be alive today if his parents had not bought him the gun on black Friday? I don’t think it can be more blatant than that fact.

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Perhaps. But he did. Obsessing over counterfactuals is less than useless.

Waukesha guy killed 6 without a gun.

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Sure they do.

Do school have “the business” of blocking porn from their computers?

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Two different things.

No they don’t.