Comments on: 8-Year-Old Arizona Boy Kills Father

Police Investigating Possible Abuse As Motive In Double-Murder; Father's Friend Also Killed

[ffoulkes-2009]

The stats and figures support my claims. The solution is to reduce the prevalence of guns or to designate an island just for gun owners!~ "LOL"

Posted by Professor209 at 06:35 PM : Nov 09, 2008
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Gun owners have half a continent designated to them and guaranteed by the Constitution...

[meinnv]

If you were meaning about the gun laws that is....

[meinnv]

Everything you just described is exactly how it already is..


Posted by legacyABQ at 11:21 PM : Nov 09, 2008


There are those who would disagree and say we could do more. I too feel as though we have enough safeguards in place, but it is others who don''t.

The only thing remaining is to just ban personal firearms entirely; which wouldn''t work either.

In any case this is truly a tragic story with more to it than what is being released.

[legacyabq]

Posted by meinnv at 09:25 PM : Nov 09, 2008


Everything you just described is exactly how it already is..

[butterflync]

"Responsible" gun owners are about as common as "responsible" pet owners. We saw what happened in this case. Yet as a society, we want to keep giving folks the benefit of the doubt. So just the pet doo that ends up your yard, we keep overlooking the dead bodies as they pile up (folks killed by relatives due to improper gun storage).

I remember as a child going to a piano teacher''s home where her husband had all his hunting guns on display, no locks. At best it was creepy....at worst it could have been deadly with all the kids that came in & out for lessons.

[zykracosmos]

The kid''s mom and dad were divorced. His dad remarried in September. His real mom came to visit him last weekend. Sounds like a motive could be that he blamed his father for the divorce and couldn''t accept the stepmom. Other guy living there is the mystery. Why kill him? It''ll all come out. The kid will tell his mother why he did it.

[schmidtkids]

The kid is the perp. - hardly the "victim".
Secondly, his daddy was the one who showed him how to use the weapon and was an avid hunter - so it sounds like there''''s at least one less a$$hole out there, as a result of this.



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Posted by cdfoxtrot5 at 09:20 PM : Nov 09, 2008
Ok I realize the child is the perpetrater or however you spell that word but he is only 8 years old, I have 8 year old twin boys and they would not know how to plan a murder, if they just said that the boy got the gun and shot both of these people then fine, I believe that a child could do that but they said "premeditated" like he spent days planning how he was going to kill these men and that is what bothers me

[meinnv]

this story does have some disturbances to it.

Meant to say "while I am not one for getting into the "gun debate""....

Sorry if that didn''t make sense. Then again, this story doesn''t make sense.

[meinnv]

I believe those who have the legal right to, and are responsible enough to, should own a hand gun for protection, and a rifle for hunting should they wish. Again, a personal choice.

BUT....ff they can''t take proper care of their weapons, they should lose them.

AND........anyone who does not have the legal right to own a gun, who commits a crime with a gun should face tougher penalties. ACTUALLY make that ALL GUN CRIMES.

That way people will think twice (those who do stop and think) how much responsibility goes into owning the firearm.

[meinnv]

Also, if this father did not have his weapon stored properly, being locked in a cabinet or have a gun lock, then he was an irresponsible gun owner and had he lived, I would have advocated him losing his weapons.

Responsible gun owners DO NOT let anyone have access to their weapons unless they are trained as well as the owner is.