The Ga shooter has been named & will be tried as an adult

[irisblue]

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[TheProle]

1. Of course he is named after a gun

[irisblue]

2. Wonder if the adult who owned the gun will be charged as well

[Rebl2]

5. Hope

The gun owner is charged

[Beaverhausen]

12. I read somewhere that Georgia doesn't hold parents responsible for what their kid does with a gun

[Rebl2]

15. That's unfortunate

[Silent Type]

3. Good point I had not noticed. Bet he used daddy's gun.

[Rebl2]

4. Just what

I was about to say.

[soandso]

7. I was thinking horse

like an old cowboy name. You may be right, though.

[Igel]

34. Possible, not likely.

The gun was named after a person (surname, but a person).

I've run into other Colts (and the occasional Colter, also likely a surname promoted to first-name status).

[Skittles]

6. sorry, a 14 yr old is NOT AN ADULT

that's INSANE

[a kennedy]

9. Absolutely insane.

🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

[soandso]

10. Yeah, well

once someone goes on a murderous rampage, they should be dealt with accordingly. Ain't no fixing someone like that (probably a sociopath). Most violent criminals are on the young side. I think the stats on violent crime (murder, armed robbery, rape, etc) are lions share of perps are between 15-mid twenties.

[TheKentuckian]

20. There is no good and responsibling your way to being an adult

so why is the reverse so easy to swallow.

You are an adult or not.

You don't magically mature because you do something awful.

[soandso]

35. That's up to the legal system to classify

adults and juveniles. Perhaps there should be a category for violent. I'm certainly not making the case that he's adult. I'm making the case that he's deranged and dangerous and that won't change.

[Iris]

29. He was a bullied child. And now he's a scapegoat for everything sick in our culture that adults won't address

[soandso]

36. A scapegoat?

He's been arrested and charged for a mass shooting not for all of the ills of society. And, I agree there are serious problems with society but he's being held accountable for his own actions.

[Gore1FL]

11. True, but so were some of his victims.

While I believe his age should be taken into account, less than 1 year per dead body doesn't seem sufficient to me. A clean slate at 18 doesn't seem fair to the victims.

[Prairie Gates]

14. Agreed

In any case, even if this was a decision that should be made, it should be made after careful consideration, not 10 minutes later. We're really in the goofiest timeline.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

18. 100% agree.

14 is middle school. Frontal cortex is pretty much still mush at that point. Trying this child as an adult is going to do NOTHING to stop future shootings. Dumb.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Perhaps HS

In most states, only 58% of kids graduate from 8th grade at 14. The other 42% are 13, but might turn 14 over the summer, then enter HS.
I was one of the latter. I didn't turn 14 until almost a month after freshman year started.
So, I'm going to guess this kid was a frosh.

[sarisataka]

19. I recall people, not so long ago,

pointing out that our brains are not fully developed until 25. Saying we should treat youthful offenders, not lock them away for life.

At least no one has suggested the death penalty, that I have seen. Yet.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

8. gun based name? "Colt"

[Botany]

13. His name was based on gun violence?

Who named him that? And who took him out to shoot and at what age?

A gun sickness is in the structure of America.

[angrychair]

16. Yep, that will fix it

The kid is obviously mentally disturbed and has incredibly shitty parents and he is 14 years old. He doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
This will fix nothing.

[birdographer]

32. Or he's been shooting people in a video game for years and years

Gets high scores. Is really good. It's a short distance for a kid with a 14-year old brain to go from Mortal Kombat to his HS where he may have been bullied or demeaned and he's mad.

[live love laugh]

39. Simulators like GTA are also a blight.

Car jackings which are often fatal are mostly done by teens who are more than likely inspired by video game gun violence.

[Squaredeal]

17. Live by the sword...

[TheKentuckian]

22. We all either live by the sword or someone does so on our behalf.

[sarisataka]

21. Isn't there normally a process or hearing

to move a juvenile into the adult system?

[irisblue]

24. Want to bet there is a local judge in the DAs' back pocket?

[sarisataka]

26. I'm sure some backwoods southern lawyer

knows a judge with bloodstains on his hands.

But that would seem to work against the conclusion many are jumping to that the shooter is white. You would think if that was true the PTB would want to keep him in the juvenile system to minimize punishment.

[33taw]

28. Each state differs in process. It is likely a DA decision.

If convicted he would normally be housed as a juvenile until he is eighteen and then moved to an adult facility.

[Torchlight]

23. I expect every narrative will interpret this one data point as an impilcit validation for "their side"

I'm guessing the next 36 hours will see fingers pointing with such fierce sanctimony and self-righteous purity as to make the Congress of Vienna look like a Friday night beer hustle.

[jimfields33]

37. Could be.

[bucolic_frolic]

27. How does trying him as an adult make any difference

Cant undo whats done.

[catbyte]

30. Do you think 7 years is enough time? If he were tried as a juvenile, he'd be released at age 21.

I don't know; I'd be afraid of him going off again.

[riversedge]

31. Only 14 years old. So, so young to do such a horrible thing.

[tinrobot]

33. Will the parent(s) who gave him access to the gun be tried as children?

[BannonsLiver]

38. Mixed feelings about him being tried as an adult

But I’m not going to lose any sleep over it either.