Washington state fifth graders plotted to kill girl, authorities say

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64. Sometimes I wonder if i'm really on a liberal site

This whole lock 'em up and throw away the key mentality is disturbing and even more so when it is directed at children.

The things I'm reading here are horrific. Comments that these kids should be put away until they are 18, that they should never be able to return to school, they should be tried as adults, or they should be forced to move away as one poster said, "I certainly wouldn't want them living in my neighborhood."

If an adult gets a weapon and attempts to carry out a plan to kill someone, that is a crime. When a 10-year-old does it, that's just stupidity.

What a bunch of punitive cowards we've become; we are so frightened of even children that we are willing to bring the full force of the justice system to bear to exact retribution from fifth graders.