Melopahn said:
Senordesol and Kopikatsu are perfect examples of why the rest of the world hates America, It is better to kill a child than to teach them how to interact with the world. I have a scenario, everytime a child is threatening or hurts anyone in any way. Lets kill their parents, the parents clearly raised the child to be violent and if they accidently reproduce again there is no way to tell that the child won't be a murderer, instead of correcting them and fixing the situation we can solve all our problems with guns and murder. The point is the child never hurt a single person he just had a gun that was made to look real. Why not approach the situation with a collective good instead of an OMG he has a gun fire stance.
I have an idea no more guns. Bam all problems solved, kid wouldn't have been holding something that would have confused the cops, cops wouldn't have had the capacity to shoot him. I am such a genius.
wat. Children can kill. We have numerous instances of children under the age of
10 murdering their parent(s) and occasionally other people. (And not because they were being abused, they just got their hands on a gun and used it.)
Also, hindsight is 20/20. The cops aren't psychic. They didn't the know the gun he had was fake and they had no way of telling the gun was fake. And as mentioned previously, we have had middle schoolers shoot up their own schools.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westside_Middle_School_massacre
13 and 11 year old set up an ambush and murder four other students and a teacher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Middle_School_shooting
14 year old shoots two other 14 year olds before being brought down.
And I didn't have have to look hard for those. I just put in 'middle school massacre' into Google and those were the first two links.
As for the 'no guns' thing...let's take away knives too, shall we? People kill with those. And bows. And cars. And piano wire. And basically everything else. (Before someone herps along and says 'GUNS WERE MADE FOR KILLING', they weren't. They were made for hunting. As were axes, knives, and arrows. They were turned into weapons later.)
Besides, people in the US wouldn't give up their guns even if ordered. How exactly do you propose to remove guns from the world? Ask nicely? Sprinkle some fairy dust and hope everything works out okay?