I can see the headline in my minds eye. How many more times will we see such headlines..

It's scary reading about stuff like this.

every time a kid comes to school with one.

You'd see a drop off in this.

gun classes in school - or some other measures that does not penalize the gun owner - in

3...2...1....

"It doesn't happen that often. Schools are very safe." And that we're crazy for being nervous sending our kids to school these days.

"It isn't that many kids" isn't a good argument IMO.

Kids in school today actually are much safer than we were.

That doesn't mean do nothing, but it does mean we should look at what's worked so well over the past 20 years.

It is about the mental state of kids that young and why the hell did they plan on harming others (there was also a knife).

Owning a gun did not cause them to decide to do this, and until we start asking questions and trying to find answers this kind of thing will go on.

When we stop looking for causes and blaming pieces of metal instead we become like those in the old days who blamed things they didn't want to bother to try to explain on witchcraft/demons/etc.

Do we talk about guns when we mention bullying? If a bully had one that is all that would be talked about as though it were the cause, but people kids get bullied all the time.

the 10-year-old kid with the questionable mental state had a gun. By definition some adult did not secure that gun sufficiently. That changes the ramifications of the kids mental state from possibly very destructive, to probably deadly.

I agree that it is about the mental state of kids, but I disagree that it is not also about adults being irresponsible with guns.

It doesn't state that info clearly enough.. but saying stolen weapon would lead me to believe that it wasn't from the parents gun collection or the article would probably say that the kids took their parents weapon... Who knows?

What's creepiest about the story is that this retaliation was apparently over a break up with a girlfriend. Seriously, how a 4th/ 5th grade relatioship was the kid's breaking point, and why did a friend agree to help. Perhaps the kids is a sociopath?

used in a crime. So I still think the owner needs to be considered culpable, and receive punishment, whether it is the parent or someone else.

And yes. I agree. These kids are clearly quite disturbed, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that they have some kind of emotional disorder.

I'm sure the support for such killings are even stronger throughout the rest of society.

What the fuck would you expect from a society that flushes all rules down the oubliette when those rules become inconvenient?

am I missing something?

What offer?