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Originally posted by honeychile
He pointed a gun - a pellet gun looking much like a more powerful weapon - at a policeman. It's a wonder he's not already dead.
There are TOO MANY GOOD policemen ruined by these people who "commit suicide by policeman" in this fashion, and it really upsets me. Many people will jump on the mean, mean police/let's ban all guns bandwagon rather than look at the real problem - that a 15-year-old had problems that obviously no one paid attention to, or he wouldn't have done that.
Think of those poor children who had to see all of this, the teachers, the school staff. Think of this kid's parents. Think of the policeman, who probably went through some serious hell before he shot. THOSE are the people who are to be pitied!
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Ahh, seriously.. I'm not disagreeing with you. I AM, however, saying that in the grand scheme of things, little guy didn't even have a real gun - the whole cotton-pickin' thing was for attention, and he got it: he was shot. So.. I will rephrase. It's a shame that a situation involving a young boy begging for attention culminated into him being shot by someone doing their job.
I don't believe you're assuming that *I* take the tone of "bad policeman/good kids (regardless of the hell you raise)", because that's not my style. I will, however, wonder how it got this far. As I said in my first post, what is going on for our youth to resort to violence and gun threats and attempted suicide to get attention? I don't feel sorry for that boy - I don't feel sorry for anyone who can recklessly put other lives in danger like that. But I don't deny that there's some emotional disturbance there that, if checked and maintained, could have prevented this. That's where my concern is - as a future teacher, I look to see how I could prevent this from happening at MY future school.