I don't even know how to respond to this story. I keep reading it trying to make sense of it because the details are scant, but somehow this was a situation where an 11 year old had two guns at his disposal. The BB gun was probably his, right? That we still have BB guns in 2015... you think they'd have gone the way of candy cigarettes, but nope. It's crazy.
I pity the kid, having grown up in a redneck family that consider guns a hobby, like reading or collecting stamps. The parents are the kind of people who probably forward the Facebook memes that joke about shooting their teenage daughter's dates or some other thing where the punchline is about someone is gonna get shot. This boy was almost certainly raised to believe that a gun is the answer to anything life throws at you and he was probably taught to fetishize them at any early age. And these are the kind of people who post comments on those articles, never able to once examine the fact that a culture that fetishize guns will inevitably lead to tragedies such as this.
I wish I go could say I'm going somewhere with this, but I'm just so defeated by it.
Updated On: 10/5/15 at 10:20 PM