14 year old shoots and wounds a cop...

[Archae]

For crying out loud...

14-year-old charged with attempted murder of police officer in North Carolina

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV/Gray News) - A 14-year-old is facing charges, including attempted murder of a police officer, after shooting a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officer during a car break-in, WBTV reported.

Officers were dispatched to a car break-in Monday morning. The caller also said the suspect pointed a firearm at a resident in the area.

When police arrived, they chased the suspect who opened fire at them, striking one of the officers in the upper-body area, authorities said.

Police returned fire and the teen was eventually taken into custody.

The officer was taken to a hospital, but his injuries are not life-threatening, authorities said. No other injuries were reported.

The 14-year-old is being charged with attempted murder of a police officer and robbery. The suspect’s name has not been released.

https://www.wbay.com/2021/12/27/14-year-old-charged-with-attempted-murder-police-officer-north-carolina/

[doc03]

1. Well thankfully both are alive. nt

[jimfields33]

2. I hope the parents are charged

I also hope his life is looked at through a microscope.

[SYFROYH]

7. Charged with what?

What facts do you know about the parents that would indicate their culpability?

[Torchlight]

8. Why do you assert the parents should be charged?

Already lacking the the most basic and most necessary information about them, what should the parents be charged with, and do you believe all child-shooters' parents (regardless of circumstances, as we have no circumstances here to regard) should be charged similarly?

[BlackSkimmer]

11. Everybody was really happy for the Crumbley parents to be charged.

Why is this different?

[Diamond_Dog]

3. A 14 year old toting a gun.

What could go wrong.

[RockRaven]

4. Note that the cops returned fire, but nobody else was listed as being injured...

In other words, they sprayed some bullets around but didn't hit what they were shooting at. Which is good and bad at the same time, I guess.

[gratuitous]

6. The kid hit his target

The law enforcement professionals didn't. Hmmm. And with the proliferation of firearms, which was supposed to make our society safer, gun violence and deaths due to firearms keeps going up year after year. I'm beginning to doubt the wisdom of the NRA.

[PTWB]

9. Where are you getting your numbers?

The violent crime rate in 1991 was 758.1 violent crimes per 100,000 people. The violent crime rate in 2019, the most recent year for which official data is publicly available, was 379.4 violent crimes per 100,000 people.

When the data is available for 2020 and 2021 I expect to see a COVID-19 bump based on what we've seen reported in the news, but I doubt that it will be such a significant rise that we will approach the violent crime rate that we saw in the late 80s and early 90s.

[Edit: I see that the FBI has released data for 2020 that indicates the violent crime rate was 398.5 per 100,000 people.]

That rate decreased significantly for 20 years in a row before stagnating at roughly half of what it was at the peak.

The FBI has NICS check data available from November, 1998 to October, 2021 and during that time there have been 408,477,515 background checks. Some of those checks would result in flagged purchases (and no sale), so that isn't an exact number of firearm sales during that time period. But those numbers also don't include private sales not subject to a NICS check.

I think it would be safe to say that there are over 400 million more guns in the country today than there were in 1991 and the violent crime rate is half of what it was.

Does that mean that the proliferation of guns is responsible for the reduction in violent crime? Certainly not. But it is contrary to reality to suggest that the proliferation of guns is responsible for an increase in violent crime: that is demonstrably false.

[Norbert]

5. I hope he don't claim self-defense

[BlackSkimmer]

10. Huh?