Boy, 9, charged with Brandishing Firearm

[subknave]

Its not that what he didn't wasn't wrong, it was, but having the police arrest him and the DA prosecute him is ridiculous. Send him home punish him so he gets the messag, take away his nintendo for a month but don't waste my tax dollars prosecuting a 9 year old with a toy gun. If two kids get in a fight on the playground do you call the police and have them arrested for assault and battery? If a little boy kisses a girl do you arrest them for sexual assault?

At some point commensense needs to come into play.

 

[The Bushmaster]

So you take the 9 year old home to his parents and they, in turn, take said 9 year old to the wood shed and tan his hide...Oh...Forgot...You can't do that anymore either...

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

So you take the 9 year old home to his parents and they, in turn, take said 9 year old to the wood shed and tan his hide...Oh...Forgot...You can't do that anymore either...


and now we address the crux of the problem

 

[jr45]

So you take the 9 year old home to his parents and they, in turn, take said 9 year old to the wood shed and tan his hide...Oh...Forgot...You can't do that anymore either...

and now we address the crux of the problem

Many of the parents will not discipline thier children regardless of legality. While I agree that this maybe one of the underlying issues, I believe the main issue (in this case) is people, schools, courts, etc. just over reacting. I do not know what the gun looked like but if it appeared to be a toy, then this is just another case of excessive/foolish waste of time and money.

I remember reading an article on how a 5yr old boy was expelled from school (I think in CA) for sexual harassment. His crime was kissing girl and the school exercised its zero tolerance policy.

 

[Iron Sight]

Try a Google search on this? "man with toy gun killed"

 

[Art Eatman]

Yeah, wuz a time the kid would have gotten a paddling for doing stoopid and that would have been the end to it. Now, we send out the fire department to extinguish a cigarette...

I keep asking how all these laws have made our world all better...