He was 6, in his first-grade class in Newport News, Virginia. He pointed a handgun at his teacher, police say, and then he pulled the trigger. And across the nation, people ... didn't quite know how to react.
It's not just his community, though, and it wasn't just that day. This is a country full of people who know exactly what they think about everything, and say so. Yet many are throwing their hands up at this. In a land awash in hot takes, it's a head-scratcher. A heart-scratcher, even. "Sadly, we have schemas, we have rubrics, we have archetypes for school shootings in this country. We have a sort of script for these things," said Talarico, who has studied how people remember indirectly experienced events. "Using the phrase `school shooting' as a shorthand leads us to develop that story in our heads, and when the facts of the case are so different ... that is what is surprising.
"That is ludicrous. It is absurd. It is utterly inconsistent with science and what we know about human development and child development," she says. "Let's own that. This was not a criminal act." "It was like fingernails on a chalkboard when I heard the police say it was intentional," he said. "We don't call it intentional when it's a 6-year-old. ... He's not old enough to have intent."
Busch remembers being dumbfounded when notified of the 2000 shooting. "I just couldn't wrap my head around that," he said. But he knew immediately he wouldn't bring any charges.
There have been guns in society for years. Generally people obeyed and didn't commit horrendous crimes. So, what changed? Society! IMHO.
America: Does this mean I have a gun problem? The world:
Guns and ammunition must be banned.
If the parents were white they would have been arrested by now and their mugshots all over liberal anti white media.
Not really. 6-year-olds shouldn't have access to guns.
Has anyone determined the recidivism rate for people who exhibited criminal behaviors below the age of criminal responsibility? Really sounds like something we should know regarding this case's disposition.
Which culture exactly?
Irresponsible gun owners own this NOT a 6 year old kid.
When you put guns first that's what happen....USA's culture
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