…And Nearly Again UPDATED
Police find arsenal in kid’s house before he gets to kill.
Oh, here’s the most disgusting part:
The weapons included a 9 mm assault rifle that the teenager’s mother had recently bought for him, Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. said. Prosecutors are reviewing her actions.
Then, of course, there’s this part:
Also discovered were seven explosive devices Castor described as homemade grenades: plastic containers filled with BBs to which gunpowder could be added. Authorities said one grenade was operable and the others had been in the process of being assembled.
And this:
“I do not think an attack was imminent and I am not certain that an attack was going to occur at all,” Castor said at a news conference. “It could have simply been big talking by a kid who thought that he was bullied previously and he was going to exact his revenge.”
The teen previously attended middle school in the district but had been taught at home for more than a year after voluntarily leaving school, Castor said.
So…no attack was imminent? How’s the view from your arsehole, Mr. Castor?
The kid was caught after a tip from a high school student and that student’s father. The “no attack was imminent” weapons’ horder was being home schooled after voluntarily pulling out of school.
But let’s get back to the sick part: Mom bought the gun. My questions: How easy do you suppose it was for her to do this? Show a drivers’ license? Smile flirtaciously at the sales clerk? Tell him, “oh, don’t worry about me, it’s a gift for my 14-year old home-schooled son who voluntarily left school last year”?
Tell me again how we already have too many laws and it’s this sick twisted woman’s right to do this.
UPDATED: Mom had purchased two more guns, which were stored at a friend’s house. She is not an early leader in the Mom of the Year race.
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October 12th, 2007 at 7:44 am
No attack imminent. Isn’t that what you guys say about Iran? Despite all their bluster?
October 12th, 2007 at 8:03 am
BJ - you are picking and choosing your quotes.
“The search did not turn up any ammunition for the most dangerous firearm in the bunch, the assault rifle.” (I will grant that 9mm can’t be that hard to find on the black market, but still…also, I am not defending the mother, here.)
Of all the other “weapons” listed, that was the only firearm.
Also, they did catch this kid, right? A tragedy was avoided, right? Where is your outrage at the person who sold the sword or the sword manufacturers?
October 12th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Mouse - First of all, the title of the post is “…and nearly again”. That would then show the average reader the acknowledgement on my part of the tragedy being avoided.
Secondly, re: quotes…and therefore, by the ones you “chose”, so are you.
Lemme ask you this…if he DID go into a school and start killing, which weapon do you suppose would be the #1 tool? Um, yeah. The 9mm.
And don’t give the old sword/knife/blowdart/baseball bat canard. That’s a completely pointless (but nonetheless still used by the NRA) argument. The power and speed of guns and grenades, particularly when the goal is mass violence, cannot compare to knives and swords. Did the Columbine killers use bats? Did the Virginia Tech killer use swords? Did the sniper in Austin, TX back in the 60’s use blowdarts? Nope, they all use guns to commit their heinois acts. It’s not even close.
Hence the saying “he brought a knife to a gunfight” to describe someone as hopelessly outclassed. Or, as I like to say, “he brought a horse to a NASCAR race”, or as I also now like to say “he brought a Cub to a Major League baseball game.”
October 13th, 2007 at 10:35 am
He had no ammo. Was he going to use the 9mm as a club?
An idiot 14 year-old purposefully crashes his mom’s car, which she let him use, into a school bus killing several and injuring many. Is the problem with the driver, the mom, or the car?
PS: You gave up baseball, so how would you know?