"It's heinous, the whole situation," Lawrence County District Attorney John Bongivengo said.
I agree. This totally blows my mind. How? How could an 11 year old murder someone? I can think of two reasons. He didn’t know what kind of life he would be living after he shot someone. And he had his very own shotgun.
Children often do not understand the concept of permenant consequences. They haven’t learned from making mistakes that one should weigh options before acting on impulse. They haven’t completely grasped the concept of thinking things through because they don’t understand that mistakes can ruin their lives.
This is a major reason why shotguns should never ever be “designed for use by children.” Children shouldn’t be in charge of their own weapon. If it is a parent’s decision to allow their children to use a gun or weapon of some kind then they should supervise the kid, not leave them to their own devices with a weapon that can kill someone.
Now I realize that if he is guilty, then he actually murdered two people and that’s awful. But so is the fact that he had a gun available to him when he wasn’t old enough to be in charge of his own decisions. He should be tried as a jouvenille because he is only 12 years old and a 12 year old should not be put in jail for the rest of his life. The above facts have to be taken into account. He was too young to make clear decisions based on consequences and he was handed the weapon that he used.
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