A 12 year old boy from Arizona in the US shot and killed his mother this week.
I remember watching Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, where the NRA (National Rifle Association) said that Guns don't kill people, the people do.
I'm not so sure that is the case, especially in cases like these and more so in the one explored in the film of Michael Moore's - if I remember rightly a 6 year old killed a classmate with a gun. Crazy.
Still, the boy (if you read the article link above), has been deemed mentally capable to have the MO for the murder.
Ridiculous. At least Arizona is one the 49 US States that don't allow for the death penalty for minors (Georgia do - see "Why do people hate America" by Sardar and Davies)... so he will just be given a juvenile prison sentence.
Which is fair enough, hopefully though, he is rehabilitated rather than have his life destroyed by the courts.
Monday 5 January 2009
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I read that he was both physically and verbally abused by his mother. So while I don't exactly know the true extent of it, there's at least an argument of self defense in there somewhere. While it is awful, there's much worse reasons why people murder.
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