College ballplayer gunned down — Page 2

In my home if you said you were bored you'd have to do a chore.

It sounds so simple, yet it's a great lesson. Good for both attitude adjustment and behavior patterns.

So many kids are "bored" and don't do chores anymore. Their parents either don't care or gave up trying. Nothing like no allowance, no Internet, and no TV to get them to come around quickly. And you have to start young, you can't wait until they're teens and suddenly change the rules.

I seriously do blame the parents. When the ages are this young for "bored murderers," it's the parents who should stand trial.

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Updated On: 8/21/13 at 10:59 AM

This really has nothing to do with the parents needing to keep the kids busy with chores, activities etc.

It goes much much deeper than that. It has to with the parents not teaching the kids basic right and wrong. It's not like they were caught stealing or smoking weed. Lots of kids do those things and learn the hard way.

But they committed murder. The most heinous crime. And they give the impression that they don't understand the implications/consequences of taking a life.

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and all the pro gun people will start screaming that guns don't kill people...yeah, right...

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What is wrong with this world exactly?

^That was my first reaction, fury was my second.

I hope the victim's family finds justice in this tragic moment in their lives.

"Why was a 14-year-old boy out that late without his mother, Shanise Farrar, who called the shooting an assassination? Or his aunt, Quwana Barcene, who said the bloody gun police say was found near his body was part of a coverup? Where was the supervising adult who should have been with a 14-year-old boy walking the streets of New York at 3 o'clock in the morning?

Full Write Up

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Australian news is reporting that James Edwards, the 15-year-old who is charged with 1st-degree murder, had Tweets like "90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM" and "With my niggas when it's time to start taken life's" on his Twitter feed, so they actually could declare it a hate crime.

https://twitter.com/JAMESAKABUG

Chilling 911 call details final moments of Melbourne baseballer Chris Lane's life

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Or randomly shoot a college student jogging down the street as entertainment -- though it seems the shooting may not have been as random as previously thought considering one of the suspects, who is black, tweeted that he hated white people back in April.

I originally posed the question about the murder being race-related, since the victim was white and the teens were black. I got the feeling it was more than a random shooting.

I am reminded of the case involving a Johns Hopkins Student who was stabbed 3 years ago while he was on the cell phone with his mother, walking back to his apartment. The perpetrators (a man and a woman) were black and the victim was white. At first, it seemed like a random robbery, since they took his phone and wallet, but it was eventually revealed that they purposely chose a white victim.

I remember being disturbed for days by this story because the young victim, Stephen Pitcairn, was a researcher who was assisting in breast cancer studies at Hopkins and was soon to enroll in medical school. His goal was to become a doctor and possibly cure cancer. Such a waste. Meanwhile, his murderers were low-life thugs with a long rap sheet who had nothing good to contribute to society.

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Updated On: 8/22/13 at 02:40 PM

I pity the public servant at the NSA who was assigned to monitor the posts on BroadwayWorld.

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So, the school shooting that just happened, was stopped by someone without a gun...

Funny how none of the gun supporters aren't saying anything about that.

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If she'd been armed there would be FEWER than none dead.

People don't not kill people; guns don't not kill people.