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Originally Posted by doc1
"Neighbors said an elderly woman was fed up with constant harassment from a 12-year-old boy, so she took a gun and shot the child after he and his friends threw bricks into her home. Now, the boy is charged with a crime, while the 68-year-old woman is not........."
"....Numerous neighbors have been speaking in her defense. They sympathize with the woman, and say she wasn't the only victim, she was just the first to take action......."
"....Neighbors said the boy was the ringleader of a group of kids, and had been holding his own little reign of terror on the block – especially targeting Matthews......"
".....Neighbors say they would often call police about the "bad boys", and they would come and take the boys into custody. But after they were released, they would go back to the neighborhood and terrorize it all over again....."
Elderly Woman Shoots 12-Year-Old Boy In South Shore - cbs2chicago.com (http://cbs2chicago.com/local/elderly.woman.shoots.2.1936778.html - broken link)
I'm glad this boy got a lesson in respecting his elders or at the very least not with them.
Whether she shot him or not, he was well on the path to a future career as a criminal. Perhaps this incident will scare him straight and get him the help he needs. If her aim was better, he'd never bother anyone ever again. This woman taught the kid that sometimes the homeowners will fight back with deadly force which is something that should happen more often. It's long past time for people to stop being victims and start fighting back.
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There is no guarantee this event will do anything whatsoever to scare this young man straight. Who is to say in the next several months he decides to kill this woman as "payback" or to "get respect". The only thing that changes a kid like this is having somebody to show him he's headed in the wrong direction and is able to offer him an alternative to a better life and the kid has buy into it. In many cases by the time a kid is twelve or thirteen years old if he doesn't have the concept of what is right or wrong instilled in him already base on his environment and the people influencing his life it may already be too late.
There is no guarantee this event will do anything whatsoever to scare this young man straight. Who is to say in the next several months he decides to kill this woman as "payback" or to "get respect". The only thing that changes a kid like this is having somebody to show him he's headed in the wrong direction and is able to offer him an alternative to a better life and the kid has buy into it. In many cases by the time a kid is twelve or thirteen years old if he doesn't have the concept of what is right or wrong instilled in him already base on his environment and the people influencing his life it may already be too late.
Your telling me ANY 13 y/o, barring debilitating mental issues, you know of thinks its OK to throw bricks through windows?
Your telling me ANY 13 y/o, barring debilitating mental issues, you know of thinks its OK to throw bricks through windows?
You don't get it. It's not a matter if he thinks it's O.K. or not. Chances are this kid never grew up being taught to respect other people’s property or he got taught and the influences in his life are so negative now they completely overshadow anything he might have been taught, which goes to my point if he doesn't have somebody in his life showing him he's going in the wrong direction the fact he got shot may not necessarily motivate him to change his behavior. In fact, he might become even more violent.
Huh. I couldn't care less what his background is, it does not mitigate what has done. It was wrong whether he knew it or not, and he paid the price. Sucks to be him.
You don't get it. It's not a matter if he thinks it's O.K. or not. Chances are this kid never grew up being taught to respect other people’s property or he got taught and the influences in his life are so negative now they completely overshadow anything he might have been taught, which goes to my point if he doesn't have somebody in his life showing him he's going in the wrong direction the fact he got shot may not necessarily motivate him to change his behavior. In fact, he might become even more violent.
There is no guarantee this event will do anything whatsoever to scare this young man straight. Who is to say in the next several months he decides to kill this woman as "payback" or to "get respect". The only thing that changes a kid like this is having somebody to show him he's headed in the wrong direction and is able to offer him an alternative to a better life and the kid has buy into it. In many cases by the time a kid is twelve or thirteen years old if he doesn't have the concept of what is right or wrong instilled in him already base on his environment and the people influencing his life it may already be too late.
Well - she showed him.
It would be difficult to believe that by age 12 or 13 that a kid never had any one every offer some kind of alternative. Certainly the kid attended school at least part of his life, certainly he had to have seen at least one good teacher, one good headstart babysitter.
He's already made his choices but you're right, it may be too late now for him. If he decides to do some payback, let's hope that woman still has her gun and aims it well.
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