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Wouldn't need that, he'd have a notion that setting his (former) bedroom on fire while they were sleeping and leaving the house would effectually remove his tormentors from this world, and with the degree of suffering he might feel they deserve

You may have given that too much thought…
 
how is that close to the line its a example that whilst most business have been closed they have been busy shooting each other at home...
 
how is that close to the line its a example that whilst most business have been closed they have been busy shooting each other at home...
Fewer than half of us mass shootings happen in a business setting. So I don't know what you think the point you're making is worth
 
A suspect arrested 2,000 miles from site of horrendous quadruple murder


For someone who is supposed to be PhD candidate in criminal justice, he was awfully sloppy. You'd think he'd know all the ways to cover his tracks. Instead he leaves DNA at the scene and lets his cell phone ping towers nearby a dozen times. I'm sure that's freshman level Murder 101.

(If that didn't get me on an FBI watch list, I don't know what else would.)
 
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Not a mass shooting, just a six year old shooting a teacher.


I'm not certain what you would do with a six-year-old who tried to murder someone (and very nearly succeeded). You can't put them in prison. I'd be scared to give them back to their parents. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some serious issues going on with that family that he doesn't need further exposure to. You'd have to put the whole family in intensive therapy, which doesn't really happen in the US. I'm just at a loss. Wasn't there a 10-year-old who murdered a little girl in Britain? What did they do with him?
 
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I'm not certain what you would do with a six-year-old who tried to murder someone (and very nearly succeeded). You can't put them in prison. I'd be scared to give them back to their parents. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some serious issues going on with that family that he doesn't need further exposure to. You'd have to put the whole family in intensive therapy, which doesn't really happen in the US. I'm just at a loss. Wasn't there a 10-year-old who murdered a little girl in Britain? What did they do with him?
Not heard of that one. The famous UK case involving 10 year ago killers was this one below (no guns involved though so a bit off topic)

 
I'm not certain what you would do with a six-year-old who tried to murder someone (and very nearly succeeded). You can't put them in prison. I'd be scared to give them back to their parents. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some serious issues going on with that family that he doesn't need further exposure to. You'd have to put the whole family in intensive therapy, which doesn't really happen in the US. I'm just at a loss. Wasn't there a 10-year-old who murdered a little girl in Britain? What did they do with him?
somebody will be pushing to try them as an Adult:facepalm:
 
I'm not certain what you would do with a six-year-old who tried to murder someone (and very nearly succeeded). You can't put them in prison. I'd be scared to give them back to their parents. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some serious issues going on with that family that he doesn't need further exposure to. You'd have to put the whole family in intensive therapy, which doesn't really happen in the US. I'm just at a loss. Wasn't there a 10-year-old who murdered a little girl in Britain? What did they do with him?
Were you thinking of Mary Bell? She was ten when she murdered her first victim in 1968. Ten is the age of criminal responsibility under English law. She was sentenced to a remand home and later prison, from which she was released in 1980, and granted anonymity.

Bell had been abused by her mother and her mother's clients. It's all a very sad story. I haven't read Gitta Sereny's famous books on the subject.
 
I'm not certain what you would do with a six-year-old who tried to murder someone (and very nearly succeeded). You can't put them in prison. I'd be scared to give them back to their parents. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some serious issues going on with that family that he doesn't need further exposure to.

When a six-year-old boy in Michigan shot and killed a classmate in 2000, he wasn't charged but prosecutors went after three adults in the house where he found the gun.

Busch and his prosecutors quickly concluded there was no criminal case to make against the boy who shot Kayla, saying that under state law, he was too young to be held criminally responsible because he was not capable of forming the intent to kill, which is necessary for criminal prosecution.

But the former prosecutor did pursue charges against adults living in the house where the boy found the gun in a Puma shoebox.

Jamelle James, who prosecutors said owned the stolen pistol, and two other men, including the boy’s uncle, were indicted on federal weapon charges in the aftermath of the shooting.


 
Were you thinking of Mary Bell? She was ten when she murdered her first victim in 1968. Ten is the age of criminal responsibility under English law. She was sentenced to a remand home and later prison, from which she was released in 1980, and granted anonymity.

Bell had been abused by her mother and her mother's clients. It's all a very sad story. I haven't read Gitta Sereny's famous books on the subject.
An old mate of mine was in Red Bank secure unit at the same time as Mary Bell :eek:
 
Were you thinking of Mary Bell? She was ten when she murdered her first victim in 1968. Ten is the age of criminal responsibility under English law. She was sentenced to a remand home and later prison, from which she was released in 1980, and granted anonymity.

Bell had been abused by her mother and her mother's clients. It's all a very sad story. I haven't read Gitta Sereny's famous books on the subject.

I've read the Sereny book on Bell. A very uncomfortable and disturbing read which at least tries to get to the heart of why Bell committed the awful crime she did. Of course, no one can condone it, but at least this book attempts to understand why it may've happened and what led Bell to do such a thing. Like I say, an unsettling, but well researched book.
 
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