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you can't arrest people, especially kids, because you're afraid of what they might do. Kids today have more graphic video games and movies to copy off of when they draw as opposed to the commodore or atari games we had (ok, i had nintendo, but anyway). The games and graphic violence on tv give them these ideas, that's the difference between drawing of yesterday and today.
Children can't be protected 24/7. I'm not saying drop your kids off in the bad neighborhoods and tell 'em dinner will be ready at 6, but what goes on in school should be dealt with by parents and teachers, not the police. A threatening drawing is bad, but to charge a 10 year old with a felony is not going to be very productive in teaching these kids right and wrong. If they want to fight, let them. We should not be raising a generation of wimps and cry babies because other kids are being "mean."
I don't think these are murderers in training and this drawing is not a smoking gun to another columbine disaster. It's kids, plain and simple, being kids. Taunting, teasing, and bullying someone else.
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