Guns, Courts, And An 11 Year Old

I've seen a news story throughout the day about an 11 year old boy shooting his pregnant step mother with a shotgun he got for Christmas because he did not like his father's new girlfriend (the step mother.) This 11 year old is going to be charged as an adult in the court system. First of all the crime is severe. However the criminal is not over 16 and thus should automatically not be charged as an adult. Make whatever security arangements necessary. They say they need to charge him as an adult because he would need to be seperated from the general population of a juvenile facility. I will simply point out that you will need to isolate him in a prison facility as well, considering that some of the inmates are pedophiles and shower time would probably not be a good experience for this boy. I understand his crime is severe. However, this could have been prevented with a bit of common sense by the father. A message to everyone who reads this and the nation that I love as a whole: don't buy your kids guns. If you do, please lock them away until you are there to supervise their use of them, especially if they are under the age of 16. That is just a given. Some common sense is required. The reason this is common sense is because his anger and frustration is nothing new. These shootings that we complain about in this 'new era' come not from new anger or hatred, but new access. Guns are no more commonplace, in fact they are harder to get through the legal process. However, it is the lack of proper storage and common sense when it comes to children and the mentally unstable that are creating this new era of gun violence that is shown in the media. The gang violence is still much subdued for some reason, maybe a fear of being called racists. Anyhow, these shootings come from people who have the same repressed feelings as anyone else. A kid who loses his mother or father to any issue, most painful being death and divorce, will hold resentment and anger either towards whoever fulfils the role if unwanted, or towards the one who caused him to be removed from the family situation they hold, commonly the father, sometimes the mother too in a divorce. These feelings are nothing new. It isn't the games, it isn't the music, its the lack of selling boxes with padlocks with every gun. Remove the extra taxes, take away the "ban gun" initiatives, sell secure cases for guns with the gun. Make the secure box mandatory with every sale. Maybe in extreme places, such as Illinois and California, allow random checks on those boxes by a once a year task force to check up on those. If they are not being maintained, remove the weapon from the household and revoke the lisence. Now, the kid should be punished, as a kid. The guns should be secured in households across the country from those who are not capable of handling them properly. This has been another episode of the ravings of a madman. Thank you for reading. Meow.