1st Grader shoots and kills 1st grader, ABC Radio news. AP will probably have link soon.

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), February 29, 2000

Answers

Near Flint, MI.

six year olds.

damn.

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), February 29, 2000.

ANYONE wanting guns had better buy them in the next year or so. After that, it's HIGHLY unlikely that you'll be able to, due to crap like this, along with Columbine-style murders.

The person(s) responsible for allowing a 6-year-old child to access a weapon should be prosecuted.

-- Dennis (djolson@pressenter.com), February 29, 2000.

A link:

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-- Dennis (djolson@pressenter.com), February 29, 2000.

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-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), February 29, 2000.

A preventable accident. There is not excuse for a child having access and taking a gun to school. I have guns and I can't remember a time my kids ever had access to them. Maybe it's time someone started a gun storage facilty, where an adult could have access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

-- Trish (adler2@webtv.net), February 29, 2000.

ABC radio news at 12:30. 7 yr old girl shot by a 6 yr boy. Girl is in critical condition. Boy is in custody. Reason for shooting (accident or intentional) is unknown. 20 other students in room at the time of the shooting.

-- (southeastern@my-deja.com), February 29, 2000.

Trish,

While I applaud that idea, it'll NEVER be practical. For one thing, WHAT COMPANY would take on the LIABILITY of storing lots of guns in a central location. (Sounds kinda like a BANK, hmmm?)

Soooo, the GOVERNMENT would be the only entity willing to do it. Speaking strictly for myself, the LAST thing I'll EVER do is allow the gov't to "hold my firearms for safe-keeping".

The person(s) RESPONSIBLE for allowing that child access to a firearm needs to be prosecuted, pure and simple. After all, it IS a "people problem."

YMMV

-- Dennis (djolson@pressenter.com), February 29, 2000.

ABC radio news report at 1:00 pm. The 7 yr old girl has died. May God be with her family.

-- (southeastern@my-deja.com), February 29, 2000.

If the government can call a standing army a "militia," (the National Guard), why can't they confiscate all our guns, and say they're still ours but just holding them for us, for our own safety? Same principle. It just depends on what the meaning of "is" is...

The girl has died of her wound, btw.

We are a society with a Second Amendment underscoring our pre-existing, natural right to keep and bear arms, for our own safety, and to forestall the ever-present threat of tyranny. Guns are going to be present and available. This horrible incident testifies to the need for universal gun-safety training in the public schools. If the enemies of freedom (who would rewrite the Constitution) were serious about preventing these accidents, instead of exploiting them for political gain, we would all have had such training long ago (whether we choose to own guns or not), and this incidident might never have happened.

-- Ray (ray@solarcollector.emp), February 29, 2000.

We need to license first graders, now?

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), February 29, 2000.

We need to make sure that every parent of first graders knows what can happen when their kids are able to access their guns. And we need to teach that, and more, universally, as soon as it can be learned.

The NRA has been tried this, but has been prevented in some areas from teaching gun-safety courses in the schools.

Socialist gun-grabbers oppose education, because they know it would reduce these types of incidents, which fuel their irrational diatribes against the Second Amendment. They are cynical, anti-constitutional socialists, crying crocodile tears over these children to advance their agenda of statist enslavement.

-- Ray (ray@solarcollector.emp), February 29, 2000.

I live in Michigan and this story is pre-empting a lot of the radio and television programming.

I can add to this story that the gun was stolen. The principal said this is NOT the first time an ELEMENTARY school child has brought a gun to school.

The boy and girl had an altercation on the playground the day before the shooting. It seems that this was not accident and that the child brought the gun to school with the intention of using it.

-- LOON (blooney10@aol.com), February 29, 2000.

The NRA's Eddie Eagle program might have prevented this.

-- Longshot (longshot911@email.com), February 29, 2000.

Just heard a live report from Michigan on our local Fox affiliate and reporter indicated that this young boy has been trouble from day one, prompting complaints from other parents starting the beginning of the school year. Evidently, his home life is troubled and he was evicted a few days ago. (The reporter did not make it clear whether or not the kid's family was evicted or that the kid himself was kicked out.)

-- Daisy Jane (deeekstrand@access1.com), March 01, 2000.

The boys father is in jail, the mother is off somewhere, and he lived with relatives who were found with drugs in the house and believed to be dealers.

You don't think these "adults" give a rats ass wheather the kid learns gun safety or not do you?

When we pull kids out of crack-houses and let them grow up in a normal family instead of "keeping them with relatives" then maybe they will not learn hatrid and violence from the cradle.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), March 01, 2000.

Im led to believe that the 6-year-old shooter is black. Apparently the boys father is currently in jail (has been for some time) and the gun was stolen last year. In a search of the boys home the authorities found a stolen shotgun and some other suspicious items yet to be identified. The little girl and boy were reported to have been involved in a playground confrontation of sorts the previous day. Why Ill bet she called him the N word and he came back and shot her. Hang on there good people of Flint, can Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton be far behind? This one will be a classic, as any inference of race will be played to the hilt. Take your time on this one folks, read the facts and draw your own conclusions.

-- Ra (tion@l.1), March 01, 2000.