General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFootage of a 12 year old kid in Michigan robbing a gas station at gun point.
Link to tweet
More guns, more guns!!!!!!
https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/crime/12-year-old-boy-in-custody-after-holding-up-gas-station/69-ffbf5d68-001a-4797-a3be-c840ccedb20d
*snip*
Hartford Lt. Mike Prince says the 12-year-old boy went to school Wednesday and had apparently talked with a classmate about the least secure gas station in town.
The boy went home, changed clothes, got into a parent's gun safe and retrieved a 9mm handgun with two loaded magazines.
He put the gun in a backpack and then walked about a mile to the gas station, Lt. Prince said.
The 12-year-old waited in line behind a customer at the gas station when he pulled out the gun and told the clerk to put money in the back.
She said, "are you serious?"
That's when the boy fired a shot into the ceiling. She reached down and gave him a bank deposit bag, telling him to leave the store.
*snip*
MagickMuffin
(15,936 posts)What really flabbergasted me is that he showed no emotion," Lt. Prince said.
"He told us he didn't do it for the money. He said he would've thrown the money into the sewer. He wouldn't give us an explanation why he did it."
Why does this child have access to his parents gun safe?
haele
(12,646 posts)He had an impulse to just do something to feel big about.
That he felt shoving a gun in a relative stranger's face and forcing them to do what he wanted with little risk (he and a friend talked about which store would be easiest to rob) indicates to me he's probably as already gone through most of the kid-level bullying or acting out for attention, and it's just not enough for him anymore.
He needs some serious help and impulse control. And his parents need to get rid of their guns. He's on track for eventually murdering them in their sleep with their own guns.
Haele
MagickMuffin
(15,936 posts)They have proved themselves unworthy of owning guns, especially since their kid (?s) have access.
Frasier Balzov
(2,642 posts)Guns can get you free money.
What was his answer to the question "Are you serious?"
Fires a shot into the ceiling in order to intimidate.
There's your RKBA America.
Midnight Writer
(21,745 posts)Glad he didn't shoot anyone, but Jesus Christ! What can you do with this kid?
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)Just a guess.
spanone
(135,819 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)not being fit for society. We'll be dealing with this person again in the future.