ANOTHER SCHOOL/PUBLIC SHOOTING

[HairOfTheDog]

Maybe he means that it speaks volumes about the parents. If that is a real gun then that picture just goes to show their carelessness and stupidity in the first place. If they gave their kid a real gun without even teaching him how to hold it properly then it's no surprise the kid is a little freak. Asshole parents produce asshole kids.

Yeah, maybe his parents were real assholes who put themselves, their kid, and the public at risk out of negligence or apathy. I don't know how they could legally have guns in the house anyway when dad had a criminal conviction for domestic violence and drugs, unless those weren't felony convictions.

The kid used a handgun in the shootings, not a semi-automatic rifle like the one in the photo. I just read that the kid's cousin, James South, confirmed that the family did have guns at the house which they typically kept in cases. He says they don't know where the kid got the handgun he used. That's what he says.

I'm not assuming the kid hadn't any gun education due to his holding/posture of a (real or toy) gun in a photo op, but maybe he didn't. In either case, he didn't shoot/hurt himself in the process of shooting four human targets. I bet he was taught the purpose and how to hold and use a hatchet on their farm. Still, he took one to school to use as a weapon and got expelled. At newly 14, he also knew how to drive a truck well enough to make it to the school before crashing it into a fence, after he'd shot his dad multiple times while dad was lying on the couch watching tv.

Anyway, if Maggot's right that the parents stupidly taught/allowed/encouraged him to use guns because it was something that made the emotionally unstable kid feel good, I won't be surprised. That's exactly what Adam Lanza's mom did and she was the first person her son killed.

I agree that mom should be held accountable if the guns in the house were there illegally or weren't all completely locked up and inaccessible to the kid.

Here's the latest from Jesse Osborne's court appearance: http://www.wyff4.com/news/teen-suspect-i...t/41894420